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Premature Memorials to the United Nations Human Rights Program: International Postage Stamps and the Commemoration of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This article examines the United Nations' international commemoration program for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It argues that the deficiencies of the UN's promotional effort were mirrored in its memorialization strategy, the most visible and sustained example of which was a...

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Published in:History & Memory Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 152 - 182
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Fall/Winter2016
Subjects:
United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Memorialization
Anniversaries
Memorials
Human rights
Internationalism
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