The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will mark its 77th anniversary on Dec. 10. The document was adopted by the United ...

The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a very profound first step for the human rights of some 370 million indigenous persons around the world, said Robert “Tim” Coulter, the ...

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 order ...

COMMENTARY: The document’s Dec. 10 anniversary is a reminder not to give up on its noble aim of recognizing the dignity of each and every human being. Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal ...

75 years ago - December 10, 1948 - the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. There are 2 reasons in particular to be hopeful. They have ...

(Mass Appeal) – Did you know that there is a Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Drafted and proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948, this document sets out the fundamental human rights to be ...

Why do the rights of some seem to matter more than others? CBC Massey Lecturer Alex Neve looks back at the birth of the ...

FILE - Eleanor Roosevelt talks with Rene Cassin, French member of the United Nations Commission on human rights, before Mrs. Roosevelt's speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, Sept. 28, 1948. Seventy-five ...