new rights - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:34:10 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg new rights - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Vatican criticises UN efforts to create new human rights https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/03/01/vatican-criticises-un-efforts-to-create-new-human-rights/ Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:30:06 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=40325 The Vatican says the United Nations puts human rights at risk when it starts recognising "new rights" that stem from private interests rather than human dignity. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States, said recent attempts to reinterpret certain terms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to introduce "ambiguous expressions Read more

Vatican criticises UN efforts to create new human rights... Read more]]> The Vatican says the United Nations puts human rights at risk when it starts recognising "new rights" that stem from private interests rather than human dignity.

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States, said recent attempts to reinterpret certain terms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to introduce "ambiguous expressions and ideological positions" ignore the foundations of human rights and threaten their universality.

He did not specify what "new rights" he was referring to, but the Vatican has previously criticised a 2011 resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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