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On the recordDecember 8, 1997
Human rights are still at risk from Burma to Nigeria, from Belarus to China.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks in New York City Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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