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 ...

The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Considered to be the most important memorandum on civil liberties, this document set the standard in a ...

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an enduring document that details in 30 articles the basic, fundamental rights that all human beings should enjoy ...

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 ...

Human rights are a set of rules and expectations that help us understand what all people deserve. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Composer Max Richter's new album "Voices" features narrators reading parts of the 70-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which he believes can stir hope in a world where we "lurch from ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...