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Universal Human Rights Overview

Human rights are inherent to all humans regardless of attributes and include rights to life, liberty, freedom from torture, opinion, work, and education. International human rights law establishes obligations for governments to protect individuals' human rights and freedoms. The UN has defined civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights and established mechanisms to promote them. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, was the first international agreement to outline fundamental human rights and has since been translated into over 500 languages.

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Universal Human Rights Overview

Human rights are inherent to all humans regardless of attributes and include rights to life, liberty, freedom from torture, opinion, work, and education. International human rights law establishes obligations for governments to protect individuals' human rights and freedoms. The UN has defined civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights and established mechanisms to promote them. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, was the first international agreement to outline fundamental human rights and has since been translated into over 500 languages.

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Human Rights

What Are Human Rights?


• Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race,
nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights
include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture,
freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and
many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.
International Human Rights Law
International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to
refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of
individuals or groups.

One of the great achievements of the United Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human
rights law—a universal and internationally protected code to which all nations can subscribe and all
people aspire. The United Nations has defined a broad range of internationally accepted rights, including
civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. It has also established mechanisms to promote and
protect these rights and to assist states in carrying out their responsibilities.

• The foundations of this body of law are the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly in 1945 and 1948, respectively. Since then, the
United Nations has gradually expanded human rights law to encompass specific standards for women,
children, persons with disabilities, minorities and other vulnerable groups, who now possess rights that
protect them from discrimination that had long been common in many societies.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history
of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds
from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III)
as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the
first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. Since its adoption in 1948,
the UDHR has been translated into more than 500 languages – the most translated
document in the world – and has inspired the constitutions of many newly independent
States and many new democracies. The UDHR, together with the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols (on the complaints procedure and on
the death penalty) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
and its Optional Protocol, form the so-called International Bill of Human Rights.

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