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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seventy years ago, world leaders committed to what was at once both an urgent set of promises and a compelling dream when the newly formed United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human ...

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 ...

It was fitting for the cause of universal standards of human rights that earlier this week a Muslim Nigerian woman was presented with the John Humphrey Freedom Award (the prize is named for the ...

Alex Neve is an international human rights lawyer and professor. He will deliver the 2025 CBC Massey Lectures and is the author of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World. On a February ...

75 years later, it's hard to imagine such a consensus emerging in the modern age You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. The United Nations Universal ...