Author Bio: The author of this text is the United Nations. The United Nations is a world group that wants to promote global cooperation. They were started after World War II ended and replaced the League of Nations. They also want to promote human rights, environment safety, and peace within the world. This article was adopted by the General Assembly which is one of the United Nations main assemblies. The United Nations' headquarters is stationed in New York, however it still looks at the bigger picture wants world peace. This organization's efforts to try and reach world peace made them get recognize and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. This group solved many dilemmas in the world and helped set up many international structures around the world. Although the United Nations started off small, as time progressed they stated to increase. They wrote this article in order to show ways human rights and global peace can be achieved.
Date/Context: This article was adopted in December of 1960. The article's main job was to promote human rights and peace around the world. During this time, there was no peace or cooperation in the world. There were a lot of terrible acts that happened during this time period and the United Nations wanted to get the world out that the world needed peace among each other. The organization wanted to stop the horrifying things that happened.
Summary: The main idea of the article is to promote human rights and peace. The article begins to talk about how humans no matter where they are have to have equal rights in order to progress freedom and better standards. Then, it states how people are determined to get freedom by themselves no matter who they are, however their are predicaments that might stop them from achieving this goal. Next, it goes on to talk about how people should accept the assistance of the United Nations so they can put an end to colonialism, and people just have to listen to themselves. The article says in order to gain peace there must be an end to colonialism everywhere around the world. This also means that the new freed territories must attain their own independence and must be allowed to practice their own rights on their own national territory. The the article goes on to explain ideas that could end colonialism really quick. These ideas are allowing humans to practice their rights, allow countries to have their own independence, allow freed territories to gain independence, and finally everyone must respect other people's rights.
Key Quotation: "Solemnly proclaims the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations."
After reading the article for myself, I thought you did an excellent job of describing what the United Nations wants in terms of freedom. They promote the freedom of everyone in the entire world, and they state that people can't deny freedom based on race, sex, language, or religion. The article also focuses on ending colonialism and manifestation. Also, you describe the time of event and the authors background very descriptively, which made it much easier to understand what the article was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I think you could have elaborated more on was the seven declarations. The seven are, the subjection of people to alien subjugation, the right to self determination, the inadequacy of political, economic, social, or educational rights, exercising beliefs freely, transferring power to people in weaker territories, any attempt at dispution of a nation, and all states should observe the provisions of the charter of the United Nations.
Overall, great job on the PDP!
Both the post and comment addressed the major issues presented in this document. However, it is important to acknowledge this document in historical context and the mass independence and nationalist movements that emerged as a rejection of colonialism/imperialism. This document gives support to the causes of colonized peoples but does not address the problems that will be faced upon independence. Next time, please proofread more carefully to ensure proper grammar.
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