In promoting the draft document, Eleanor Roosevelt likened it to the Magna Carta, the 1789 French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

On August 27, it issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man, guaranteeing all French citizens freedom of speech, press, and religion, as well as a representative government and equality before ...

FILE — The third United Nations Assembly meets at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, Sept. 22, 1948. The session ended on Dec. 10, 1948, with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Feminists in France launch campaign calling on government to shelve the "sexist" expression "rights of man" in favour of "human rights" The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of ...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( Droits de l’Homme in French) was approved by the national assembly in 1789 at the time of the French revolution. ‘Human rights for ...