This year, as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Carter Center will bring together human rights defenders from dozens of countries to ...

We still have a ways to go when it comes to protecting universal human rights around the globe The importance of human rights ...

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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the UDHR).

There’s Life Yet in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In the face of war and atrocities, the principles of the 75-year-old document remain sound. By Mary Ann Glendon Share ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated its 75th birthday on Sunday. The document comprises 30 articles outlining a range of human rights, including the right to life, liberty and ...

Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this ...

She's also serving as a symbol of human rights. On Friday, Little Amal was flying a kite with students at Jordan Community Elementary School in Rogers Park, and on Friday night, she was expected ...

As noted by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the original 30 rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have proliferated into more than 1,300 rights provisions in 64 agreements.

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights state respectively that “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary ...