International Peace Day: 10 inspirational quotes from history on the ideal and its true meaning. Theme varies with each year, with 2018's honouring Universal Declaration of Human Rights on its ...

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 UDHR.

Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 to honour the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

On December 10, the United Nations will mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In an era of spreading nationalism and gross violations in places like Yemen ...

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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in December 1948, was largely the work of Roosevelt, in her role as chair of the U.N. commission responsible for writing it.

On 10 December 2008, the United Nations led worldwide celebrations to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Six decades ago, the international ...

Contrary to the declaration’s premise that the rights it enumerates are interdependent, Pompeo construes his commission’s report as endorsing a sort of human rights cafeteria plan, in which ...

Human rights are granted to people simply for existing. They are universal—meaning they’re applicable to everyone, regardless of whether the country you live in specifically offers the rights ...