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Use these words: Adopted, barbarism, contain , promote, legal covenants, introduced , legal effort, justice, duties, follow, urged, require, form, exception, recognises, national emergency, a last resort, governed, treaties.

Appalled by the (…) of the Second World War, the United Nations General Assembly (…) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

While not legally binding, it (…) member nations to (…) a number of human, civil, economic and social rights, asserting these rights are part of the "foundation of freedom, (…) and peace in the world".

The declaration was the first international (…) to limit the behaviour of states and press upon them (…) to their citizens following the model of the rights-duty duality.

Many states wanted to go beyond the declaration of rights and create (…) which would put greater pressure on states to (…) human rights norms.

Because some states disagreed over whether this international covenant should (…) economic and social rights (which usually (…) a greater effort to fulfill on the part of individual states), two (…) were prepared.

In 1966 and 1976 respectively, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights came into force.

With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights these documents (…) the International bill of rights.

Since then several other pieces of legislation have been (…) at the international level.

With the (…) of the non-derogable human rights (the four most important are the right to life, the right to be free from slavery, the right to be free from torture and the right to be free from retroactive application of penal laws), the UN (…) that human rights can be limited or even pushed aside during times of (…) although "the emergency must be actual, affect the whole population and the threat must be to the very existence of the nation.

The declaration of emergency must also be (…) and a temporary measure".

Conduct in war is (…) by International Humanitarian Law.