The UN calls on world leaders to revive the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the text signed in Paris on December 10, 1948.
The UN calls on world leaders to revive the spirit of the Declaration of Human Rights.
The international agency launched the appeal on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the text founded to protect individual rights and freedoms on a planetary scale.
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Alongside the progress that has transformed many of our societies, there have also been numerous failures to protect human rights over the past 75 years years. We live among such failures today, with the turmoil and suffering they cause: war.”
UN delegates marked a minute of silence in memory of victims of human rights violations.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in Paris on December 10, 1948, after the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The text is not legally binding, but emphasizes the supremacy of individual rights over those of States.x States.
