Vatican envoy warns UN against inventing 'new' human rights
December 17, 2008
The Vatican's permanent observer at UN headquarters in Geneva has warned against the temptation to recognize "new" human rights, saying that there is a danger in the tendency to " reinterpret the accepted human rights vocabulary to promote mere desires and measures that, in turn, become a source of discrimination and injustice and the fruit of self-serving ideologies." Speaking at an observance of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said adherence to the original formula assures "coherence with the nature of things and the common good of society." Human rights, he said, should not be confused with "entitlements or privileges."
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