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 ...

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 ...

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).

On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...

Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Lake Success, New York in Nov., 1949. (photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer ...

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 ...