RE: [gtld-council] PDP Dec 05: Recommendation Chart & Responses Required

["Philip Sheppard" <philip.sheppard@xxxxxx>]

The UDHR was adopted by the UN in 1948.
On the topic of who adopted the UDHR, this from the UN yearbook for 1948.
(PS theories on the magic properties of the number 48 are welcome).

Philip
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http://www.udhr.org/history/yearbook.htm


"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as a whole, was adopted by 48 
votes, with 8
abstentions. The voting was as follows:

In favour: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, 
Canada,
Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, 
Ecuador, Egypt,
El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, India, Iran, 
Iraq,
Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, 
Norway, Pakistan,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Siam (Thailand), Sweden, Syria, Turkey, 
United Kingdom,
United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Abstaining: Byelorussian SSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian 
SSR, Union of
South Africa, USSR, Yugoslavia".

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