News

Downloadable version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, simplified by Amnesty and especially useful for younger people. Also available: Original text and Welsh language version. Your ...
Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris — laying one of the foundation stones of the international ...
December 10 marked the United Nations Human Rights Day, a day designed by the U.N. to commemorate the U.N. General Assembly adopting, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the UDHR).
The United Nations General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948, without a single dissenting vote (although Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the Soviet bloc ...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world’s greatest achievements and should remain an inspiration at a tenuous time. San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to ...
This month, we mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does have an odd tendency to create ...
The goal of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was to set a standard of human dignity and worth around the world. The right to science was reaffirmed with the International Covenant on ...
Like Roosevelt, she was a champion of human rights and global harmony, playing an important role during the 1978 Israel-Egypt talks that led to the peace agreement known as the Camp David Accords.
LGBTQ Persons and the Promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Opinion. Published Dec 12, 2023 at 10:10 AM EST Updated Dec 13, 2023 at 7:50 AM EST.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was published in 1948 as a framework of the importance of protecting human rights around the world. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...
Dallas celebrates the 76th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights Dallas is a new organization helping to protect individuals' fundamental rights.
As the document turns 75, U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said this week that the world is at a “somber moment in history," wracked by conflicts What is the Universal Declaration of Human ...