👩🏿🤝👨🏾 Learn About Human Rights 👨🏻🤝👨🏿
What are Human Rights?
Human rights are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings - they are not granted by any state. These universal rights are inherent to us all, regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. They range from the most fundamental - the right to life - to those that make life worth living, such as the rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, was the first legal document
to set out the fundamental human rights to be universally protected. The
UDHR, which turns 75 on 10 December 2023, continues to be the foundation
of all international human rights law. Its
30 articles provide the principles and building blocks of current and future human
rights conventions, treaties and other legal instruments.
Read more on UNHR website.