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Human Rights Day
10 December
| The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major
preoccupation for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization's
founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should
never be allowed to recur.
Respect for human rights and human dignity "is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world", the General Assembly declared three years
later in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, all States and interested organizations
were invited by the General Assembly to observe 10 December as Human Rights
Day (resolution 423(V)).
The Day marks the anniversary of the Assembly's adoption of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Over the years, a whole network of
human rights instruments and mechanisms has been developed to ensure the
primacy of human rights and to confront human rights violations wherever
they occur.
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Links to UN and UN System sites:
United Nations
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
International Labour Organization
Unesco
UNICEF
United Nations Development Fund for Women
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
World Health Organization
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
The additional resources links on this
page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily
represent an endorsement by the United Nations.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Alliances for Africa
Amnesty International
Arab Organization for Human Rights
Asian Human Rights Commission
Carter Center
Centre for Human Rights
(University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
(Washington College of Law, American University)
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Derechos Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Human and Constitutional Rights
(Arthur W. Diamond Law Library, Columbia Law School
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Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Library
(University of Minnesota)
Human Rights Watch
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
International Institute of Human Rights
Rights International
Universal Rights Network
Women's Human Rights
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