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Human Rights - The Basics
Human Rights - The Basics
BASICS
DEFINING HUMAN RIGHTS
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THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS
• THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) CAME INTO BEING IN 1945, SHORTLY AFTER THE END OF
WORLD WAR II.
• THE STATED PURPOSE OF THE UN IS TO BRING PEACE TO ALL NATIONS OF THE
WORLD. AFTER WORLD WAR II, A COMMITTEE OF PERSONS HEADED BY MRS.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, THE WIFE OF US PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT,
WROTE A SPECIAL DOCUMENT WHICH “DECLARES” THE RIGHTS THAT EVERYONE IN
THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD HAVE—THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS. TODAY THERE ARE 192 MEMBER STATES OF THE UN, ALL OF WHOM HAVE
SIGNED ON IN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS.
THE UNITED NATIONS
DECLARATION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS
• ALSO KNOWN AS “UNDHR”
• DESCRIBES 30 OF OUR MOST BASIC HUMAN
RIGHTS
• WAS CREATED IN 1948 BY THE UNITED NATIONS
• CANNOT BE CHANGED – IT IS A SET DOCUMENT
THAT CANNOT BE TAMPERED WITH
• ALL 193 MEMBER STATES HAVE AGREED TO
ADOPT THIS DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
HONOURING HUMAN RIGHTS
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