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Declaration of Independence (Ireland) Adopted by Dáil Éireann; "ratifies" the 1916 Proclamation. 1923: Declaration of the Rights of the Child: Protects the rights of children; drafted by Eglantyne Jebb, endorsed in 1924, and adopted by the UN in 1946 and in 1959. 1944: Declaration of Philadelphia: Current charter of the International Labour ...
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (World Conference on Human Rights, 1993) Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (The Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995) Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities (UNESCO, 1998) Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (UNESCO, 2001) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ...
10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration, is celebrated annually as World Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed by individuals, community and religious groups, human rights organizations, parliaments, governments, and the United Nations .
[17] Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1949. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a non-binding declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, [18] partly in response to the events of World War II. The UDHR urges member states to promote a number of human, civil, economic and ...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights(1948); United Nations General Assembly. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; article by Leif Wenar. WikiEd - Teacher's Rights; International Freedom of Expression Exchange; Comparative Analysis of Human Rights
Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris — laying one of the foundation stones of the international ...
A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens. [1] Bills of rights may be entrenched or unentrenched. An entrenched bill of rights cannot ...
The drafting of the declaration has been the result of the committed and disinterested work of a group of experts integrated by Nobel laureates - Joseph Rotblat, Wole Soyinka and Dario Fo-, scientists, artists and philosophers representing all the regions of the world –among them, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Richard Falk, Ruud Lubbers, Lord Frank Judd, Sergey Kapitsa, Jakob von Uexküll ...