The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the first document to attempt to encapsulate a common vision of rights and freedoms for all human beings.
Drawn up in the years after World War II and the Holocaust, 48 countries voted to adopt it in Paris in December 1948.
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Celebrates Human rights Day.
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, called the Declaration the “single most important global statement of the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people”.
Here in this audio slideshow, Kenneth Roth – the Executive Director of the campaign group Human Rights Watch – offers his view of how human rights have changed in the past 60 years.