The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

The archives of British naturalist Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution by natural selection revolutionized ...

In February 1947, a group consisting of Eleanor Roosevelt, Pen-Chun Chang and Charles Malik began drafting the International Bill of Human Rights. With assistance of the UN Secretariat ...

The United Nations General Assembly ... more broadly, for the human rights agenda, cannot be underestimated. By adopting the Declaration, we are also taking another major step forward towards ...

Although many Americans have forgotten or are unaware of the 69th anniversary today of the signing of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it has special meaning to me ...