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 ...

Universal human rights, whether you like it or not Ken Wiwa Special to The Globe and Mail Published December 14, 2002 ...

The declaration isn’t a law itself but it has influenced and formed the basis of human rights treaties and international laws around the world, according to the United Nations.

Fifty-eight years after the universal declaration of human rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the debate continues as to whether the document is truly universal. Upon its ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says we have the right to “life, liberty, and security of the person.” But how well are we doing at establishing that right? In a five-part series ...

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was the silver lining on the blackest cloud in history — a century not half complete that included two calamitous world wars ...

History In the name of humanity: Recognizing 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted an aspirational document articulating the foundations ...

And who never give up on the universal dream. Their cases are at the heart of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign this year. Dec. 10, 1948.

GENEVA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- To conclude the celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

In honor of the 75th anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on Genocide, a group of activists discussed a variety of topics at the Fletcher Free Library ...