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International Human Rights

Human Rights Day 2023

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What are Human Rights?

What Are Human Rights?

 

According to the United Nations, Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery, and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more.  Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.

United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner (1993), https://www.ohchr.org/en/what-are-human-rights 

"In December 2023 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights hit 75 years. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles)."

United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights