A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been ...

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).

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an internationally recognized document proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, the primary policymaking and representative branch of ...

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.

The concept of human rights within Catholic teaching is not a recent addition but rather has roots extending back to the ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly following World War II and the Holocaust, was meant to eternalize the solemn vow “Never Again.” It was ...

On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations announced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - 30 rights and freedoms that belong to all of us. Seven decades on and 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 ...

If nations practiced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world would be a fairer, just and freer place for all. We’re not there yet, but the UDHR offers us a guide on what human ...

Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this ...