Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. December 10 marked the United Nations Human Rights Day, a day ...

COMMENTARY: The document’s Dec. 10 anniversary is a reminder not to give up on its noble aim of recognizing the dignity of each and every human being. Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal ...

On December 10, the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will reach its three-quarters of a century milestone. Adopted on the same day by the UN General Assembly in 1948, the ...

This month, we mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does have an odd tendency to create striking ...

75 years ago - December 10, 1948 - the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. There are 2 reasons in particular to be hopeful. They have ...

PRINCETON—Events around the globe have cast a shadow over human rights and the great post-World War II project to rally the world’s peoples and nations to protect them. Although the gravest violations ...

The horrors of the Second World War spurred countries throughout the world to come together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 10, this critical international ...

Brett Schaefer is the Jay Kingham senior research fellow in international regulatory affairs with The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Read his research. The Universal ...

As the world marks Universal Human Rights Day on Wednesday, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta is inviting the public to explore its newly renovated galleries—completely free of ...

The UN Academic Impact (UNAI), Human Rights team of the UN Department of Global Communications, and UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) invite you to an online panel discussion: "Women Who Shaped the ...