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 ...

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his ...

Article I All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Article 2 ...

And with this change in status came rights for the individual, at least for white males. The 20th century is considered to be the Century of Human Rights. This dynamic reached its zenith in 1948 with ...

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.

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 ...

In any case, while researching the recent presentation, I found my attention drawn to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It was demanded by the necessities arising from the horror ...

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.