EVENT INFORMATION

10
December
1948

The Universal Declaration sets out rights without racial distinction

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📅 10 December 1948 📍 Frankrijk

The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris. Its principles gave campaigners language for challenging exclusion from political, social and economic rights. The declaration emerged while colonial rule and segregation continued. Its significance includes the opportunity for subordinated people to confront the contradiction between proclaimed equality and institutional practice.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Hansa Mehta

Eleanor Roosevelt

P. C. Chang

Charles Malik

Organisaties in dit Evenement

United Nations General Assembly

Commission on Human Rights