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The Declaration was adopted as a non-binding General Assembly resolution and was never opened for state ratification, so it does not bind states as a treaty does. Many scholars and some international tribunals argue that widespread and consistent state practice treating parts of the Declaration as binding has since elevated at least some of its provisions, such as the prohibitions on torture and slavery, into customary international law, but there is no single authoritative determination of exactly which articles have crossed that threshold and which remain aspirational.
What would resolve this A consensus multilateral determination or a sustained line of consistent international judicial holdings expressly ruling on the customary status of each individual article, which does not currently exist in a single settled form.
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