On 10 December 1948, a fledgling United Nations took a momentous step. In adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it laid down a promise of a world to be rebuilt—after the horrors of ...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 75th anniversary comes amid many profound challenges to human rights worldwide. Yet the Declaration's commitment to all persons' dignity and human rights ...
OSLO (Reuters) - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is based on universal human rights and is not an attempt to enforce "Western" values on China, the panel's chairman ...