The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Considered to be the most important memorandum on civil liberties, this document set the standard in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

When was the UDHR created? The UDHR emerged from the ashes of war and the horrors of the Holocaust. The traumatic events of the Second World War brought home that human rights are not always ...

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

Kathryn McNeilly has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In a landscape of seemingly increasing global crises, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrated its 75th anniversary ...

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 ...

Human rights are standards that governments around the world have agreed to meet so that everyone can live a safe, free and dignified life. Human rights are about being treated fairly, treating others ...

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 ...