Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common ...

The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of experts discussing those women who helped draft and adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Human Rights Day is marked every year on 10 December. In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This document set out, in 30 articles ...

Although many Americans have forgotten or are unaware of the 69th anniversary today of the signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it has special meaning to me ...

We are all born with human rights, but several important documents explain what they are and how they should be protected. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) The Universal ...