World leaders are marking the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II, the declaration was intended to prevent a repetition of the horrors of the Holocaust. But in the time since the document was approved on Dec. 10, 1948, millions of people have been massacred in places such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia.
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