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10
Desèmber
1948

UN adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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📅 10 Desèmber 1948 📍 Global

The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, affirming rights and dignity for all people. Yet colonial powers continued governing millions without equal political rights, and the declaration was not legally binding. Anticolonial delegates and movements later used universal rights language to challenge racial rule and demand sovereignty.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hansa Mehta

P. C. Chang

UN delegates

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

United Nations General Assembly

Commission on Human Rights