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The Driving Force for the Declaration's Adoption: Eleanor Roosevelt
The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights — December 10, 1948
On December 10, 1948, at Paris,
France, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights via its resolution 217 A (3rd
session).
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Eleanor Roosevelt
on November 1, 1949, United Nations, Lake
Success, New York
Courtesy Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library |
The Declaration was adopted unanimously with 8 nations
(Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR),
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the
Soviet Union, the Ukrainian SSR, and Yugoslavia) abstaining
but none dissenting.
December 10 is celebrated
annually as Human Rights Day.
Here you can read
The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
And here is more on
Human Rights in History
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