The document summarizes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 in response to World War 2. It recognizes 30 fundamental human rights and freedoms that all people are inherently entitled to as human beings, including the rights to life, liberty, freedom from slavery and torture. The Declaration has served as the foundation for international and national laws protecting human rights around the world.

1. Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights

2. UDHR
• UDHR is a declaration
adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on 10
December 1948 at Palais de
Chaillot at Paris.
• The Declaration arose directly
from the experience of the
Second World War and
represents the first global
expression of rights to which all
human beings are inherently
entitled.

3. • Canadian John Peters
Humphrey was called upon by
the United Nations Secretary-
General to work on the project
and became the Declaration's
principal drafter.
• Rene Cassin received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1968 for his
work in drafting the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights,
adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on 10
December 1948. That same
year, he was also awarded one
of the UN's own Human Rights
Prizes

4. InteRnatIonal HUman RIgHts
Day
• 10 December is known
as Human Rights Day
or International
Human Rights Day.
• 2008 marked the 60th
anniversary of the
Declaration and was
accompanied by year-
long activities around
the theme "Dignity and
justice for all of us".

5. Significance
• The Guinness Book of Records
describes the UDHR as the
"Most Translated Document“ in
the world.
• It has also served as the
foundation for a growing
number of national laws,
international laws, and
treaties, as well as regional,
national, and sub-national
institutions protecting and
promoting human rights.

6. • Article 1 Right to Equality.
• Article 2 Freedom from Discrimination.
• Article 3 Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security
• Article 4 Freedom from Slavery
• Article 5 Freedom from Torture and Degrading
Treatment
• Article 6 Right to Recognition as a Person before
the Law
• Article 7 Right to Equality before the Law

7. • Article 8 Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal
• Article 9 Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile
• Article 10 Right to Fair Public Hearing
• Article 11 Right to be Considered Innocent until
Proven Guilty
• Article 12 Freedom from Interference with Privacy,
Family, Home and Correspondence
• Article 13 Right to Free Movement in and out of the
Country

8. • Article 14 Right to Asylum in other Countries from
Persecution
• Article 15 Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to
Change It
• Article 16 Right to Marriage and Family
• Article 17 Right to Own Property
• Article 18 Freedom of Belief and Religion
• Article 19 Freedom of Opinion and Information
• Article 20 Right of Peaceful Assembly and
Association.

9. • Article 21 Right to Participate in Government
and in Free Elections
• Article 22 Right to Social Security
• Article 23 Right to Desirable Work and to
Join Trade Unions
• Article 24 Right to Rest and Leisure
• Article 25 Right to Adequate Living Standard
• Article 26 Right to Education

10. • Article 27 Right to Participate in the Cultural
Life of Community
• Article 28 Right to a Social Order that
Articulates this Document
• Article 29 Community Duties Essential to
Free and Full Development
• Article 30 Freedom from State or Personal
Interference in the above Rights

11. ADVANTAGES OF UDHR
• PEACE
One of the advantages that the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights is intended
to achieve is increased international peace
and stability. By encouraging basic human
rights and democracy, it is hoped that the
Declaration will decrease international
violence.
A war in one country -- even a civil war --
can cause instability in other countries if
violence spills over the border or
neighboring countries are flooded with
refugees.

12. EDUcATiON
• A final advantage of the UDHR is its inclusion
of education as a human right. In many poor
countries, children go to work at an early age
to help support the family. Research, such as
that done by the Center for Global
Development, shows that education results in
increased economic growth, higher wages,
better health and increased political
participation and stability. By encouraging
education internationally, the Declaration
seeks to improve the quality of life of all of
the world's people.