Word: human
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Four panelists condemned President Carter's human rights campaign in a discussion on political repression in southern Africa last night...
...Clyde Ferguson Jr., professor of Law and former ambassador to Uganda, told a crowd of about 50 that human rights had become a "slogan" which the United States promoted and emphasized without defining its effect on individual international regimes...
...cited the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 as an example of American and Western European reliance on narrow assumptions which fail to take into account conditions special to the African continent...
Olara Otunna, general secretary of the Uganda Freedom Union, strongly denied the universality of human rights...
...doctors have thus far been stalled in undertaking similar research under what amounts to a five-year-old federal moratorium on such experiments with human eggs and sperm. But soon the researchers may be allowed to get back to work. An ethics advisory board appointed by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has tentatively agreed that the ban should be lifted and proposed guidelines for the work. The board will take a formal vote on its recommendations next month...