ABSTRACT
The world is witnessing repeated acts of inhumanity committed by terrorists and others against innocent people. The world is in political, economic, social and moral crisis. Poverty, conflicts, terrorism, inequality, bad governance, and gross violations of human rights are pervasive. When the Commission on Human Rights began drafting the Declaration in 1947 the French representative, advocated that two or three fundamental principles be incorporated in the future Declaration. Those are, unity of the human race or family; the idea that every human being has a right to be treated like every other human being; and the concept of solidarity and fraternity among men. On the concept of equality, Bernard Williams has noted of the idea of equality: "It is their common humanity that constitutes their equality." Kantian ethics had laid stress on the equal right of all human beings to treatment as ends in themselves as a foundation of all morality.
