Eleanor Roosevelt holds a Declaration of Human Rights poster in Lake Success, New York, November 1949. The UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" These are the words in the ...