Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. December 10 marked the United Nations Human Rights Day, a day ...

COMMENTARY: The document’s Dec. 10 anniversary is a reminder not to give up on its noble aim of recognizing the dignity of each and every human being. Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal ...

This month, we mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does have an odd tendency to create striking ...

75 years ago - December 10, 1948 - the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. There are 2 reasons in particular to be hopeful. They have ...

PRINCETON—Events around the globe have cast a shadow over human rights and the great post-World War II project to rally the world’s peoples and nations to protect them. Although the gravest violations ...

Muriel Nolen is director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission. Dec. 10 marked International Human Rights Day. The day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United ...

This year, as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Carter Center will bring together human rights defenders from dozens of countries to ...

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 ...

Siblings Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ride with U.S. President Harry S. Truman upon their arrival for a state visit, in Washington D.C ...

Brett Schaefer is the Jay Kingham senior research fellow in international regulatory affairs with The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Read his research. The Universal ...