Human Rights convenants were written and implemented in the aftermath of the Holocaust and in the revelations from the Nuremberg war crimes trials, the Bataan Death March, the atomic bomb, and the other horror stories from across the globe. People from around the world had a collective crisis of conscience and found they could no longer look the other way while tyrants jailed, tortured, and killed their neighbors.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” — Albert Einstein

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