Archive: December 10th, 2010
Yesterday, December 9th, was designated by the United Nations as “International Anti-corruption Day”, as long ago as in October, 2003, when it passed the United Nations Convention against Corruption. I don’t think it has been well advertised and, to be honest, I almost missed it this year. The first I knew was when I saw [...]
An ombudsman is an official charged with representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens. The word comes originally from the Old Swedish “umbudsmann” meaning representative, and the first official use of the term seems to date from a 1241 Danish Law. The modern use of the term began in Sweden, with the [...]
For the record – here is the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
On December 10th, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at its meeting in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and called upon all member states to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools [...]
