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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

… [I]n a world still reeling from the horrors of the Second World War, the Declaration was the first global statement of what we now take for granted – the inherent dignity and equality of all human beings.

~ Sergio Vieira De Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2003 

The fifty-six members of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10, 1948, a date now honored as International Human Rights Day. The thirty articles of the Declaration together form a comprehensive statement covering economic, social, cultural, political, and civil rights. The document is both universal (it applies to all people everywhere) and indivisible (all rights are equally important to the full realization of one’s humanity). The influence of the UDHR has been substantial. Its principles have been incorporated into the constitutions of most of the more than 185 nations now in the UN.

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