The International Human Rights Day is being observed, today. It is observed every year on 10 December - the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The United Nations will initiate a year-long campaign today in Paris, France to honour the foundational human rights document, which marks its 70th anniversary next year .
Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, “human rights have been one of the three pillars of the United Nations, along with peace and development,” said Secretary-General António Guterres in his message for Human Rights Day.
Mr. Guterres further noted that while human rights abuses did not end when the Universal Declaration was adopted, the instrument has helped countless people to gain greater freedom and security, and has also helped to prevent violations, obtain justice for wrongs, and strengthen national and international human rights laws and safeguards.
Photo Credit: UN file (Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States holding a Declaration of Human Rights poster in English. (November 1949)
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