EVENT INFORMATION

10
Desèmber
1948

UN adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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📅 10 Desèmber 1948 📍 International

The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after the destruction and mass violence of World War II. The declaration set out a common rights standard, but colonial peoples remained subject to imperial rule and many states applied its principles selectively. Anticolonial movements later used its language to challenge racial discrimination and political subordination.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hansa Mehta

UN General Assembly delegates

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

United Nations

Commission on Human Rights