International Year of Human Rights
The United Nations, meeting in general assembly, unanimously decided that the year 1968, marking the 20th anniversary of the Organization, be the International Year of Human Rights.
A set of fundamental rights, essentially deriving from theories of natural law (set of universal principles, derived from human nature and which law and morality require to be respected), the idea of human rights also borrows precepts from historical law (citizen's right of resistance to social pressure).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines, at the international level, human rights and fundamental freedoms, making them inalienable. Voted in 1948, the document was preceded, two years earlier, by the Commission on Human Rights, dependent on the United Nations and whose mission was to form investigative groups, especially in countries where cases of denial of human rights were proven, such as in South Africa, Chile or the occupied territories of Palestine.
And it is the conclusions of these commissions of inquiry which served as the basis for resolutions. Thus the Universal Declaration affirms the right to life, the prohibition of all forms of torture, the right to a fair trial, the free movement of citizens, freedom of thought, conscience, opinion and participation in political life.
By adopting this document, the international community dictated rules to be followed and applied by all States, even if these protective bodies do not necessarily prove to be restrictive for certain countries which do not comply with them.
Since its promulgation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has sought to affirm the common ideal that all peoples and all nations must achieve.
A set of fundamental rights, essentially deriving from theories of natural law (set of universal principles, derived from human nature and which law and morality require to be respected), the idea of human rights also borrows precepts from historical law (citizen's right of resistance to social pressure).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines, at the international level, human rights and fundamental freedoms, making them inalienable. Voted in 1948, the document was preceded, two years earlier, by the Commission on Human Rights, dependent on the United Nations and whose mission was to form investigative groups, especially in countries where cases of denial of human rights were proven, such as in South Africa, Chile or the occupied territories of Palestine.
And it is the conclusions of these commissions of inquiry which served as the basis for resolutions. Thus the Universal Declaration affirms the right to life, the prohibition of all forms of torture, the right to a fair trial, the free movement of citizens, freedom of thought, conscience, opinion and participation in political life.
By adopting this document, the international community dictated rules to be followed and applied by all States, even if these protective bodies do not necessarily prove to be restrictive for certain countries which do not comply with them.
Since its promulgation, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has sought to affirm the common ideal that all peoples and all nations must achieve.