The Universal Declaration of Human Rights serves as a shared benchmark of progress for every individual and nation. It aims to ensure that every person and societal institution, with the Declaration as a guiding principle, endeavors through teaching and education to foster respect for these rights and freedoms.
Human Rights Education is for the prevention of violence, dehumanization, and bullying.
ISHRIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS PRESENTATIONS IN SCHOOLS
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“Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world”. (Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Great Question,” remarks delivered at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 1958).
The history of human rights has been shaped by all major world events and by the struggle for dignity, freedom and justice everywhere.
On December 10, 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A (III).
The Drafters:
- Dr. Charles Malik (Lebanon)
- Alexandre Bogomolov (USSR)
- Dr. Peng-chun Chang (China)
- René Cassin (France)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (US)
- Charles Dukes (United Kingdom)
- William Hodgson (Australia)
- Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile)
- John P. Humphrey (Canada)
What legal instruments help the UN protect human rights?
The International Bill of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) was the first legal document protecting universal human rights. Together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the three instruments form the so-called International Bill of Human Rights. A series of international human rights treaties and other instruments adopted since 1945 have expanded the body of international human rights law.
The Core International Human Rights Instruments and their monitoring bodies