(ANALYSIS) Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the most widely agreed global standard for protecting rights and dignity. In practice it is, of course, widely ignored, but its power is shown in that even those who violate try to pretend that they are really respecting it.
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