Por supuesto, es desalentador el que, pasados 60 años de la adopción de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, tantos gobiernos hagan caso omiso de los principios que apoyaron hace tanto tiempo.
Today, the most effective force promoting human rights is global public opinion, informed and mobilized by the large and growing nongovernmental human rights movement, which, as in the recent war between Georgia and Russia, has focused international attention on violations of the laws of armed conflict that protect noncombatants.