Fifty years ago today, one of the most important treaties in the realm of international law came into effect. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is one of the three ...

Opinion: Questions still remain on what implementation of the UN Declaration and Declaration Act will look like, but now ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will mark its 77th anniversary on Dec. 10. The document was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of ...

The horrors of the Second World War spurred countries throughout the world to come together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 10, this critical international ...

A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of ...

This resource introduces students to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define what human rights are and what ...