The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

Eleanor Roosevelt holds a Declaration of Human Rights poster in Lake Success, New York, November 1949. The UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on ...

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the U.N.’s top human rights body and will not ...

Almost 80 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a gap continues to exist between the rights conferred and the daily realities for many people around the world.