When was the UDHR created? The UDHR emerged from the ashes of war and the horrors of the Holocaust. The traumatic events of the Second World War brought home that human rights are not always ...

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 ...

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 international order ...

How do we articulate the kind of future in which we want to live? In a five-part series, recorded at the Stratford Festival, IDEAS explores efforts to imagine new possibilities and make them real by ...

Born out of the terrible ashes of the Holocaust and attendant Second World War atrocities, the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) stands as the guiding text in the drive ...