History and Human Rights

David Birmingham reviews the historical dimensions of international definitions of human rights

David Birmingham | Published in History Today Volume 38 Issue 3 March 1988

Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is forty years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights claiming that:

Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.

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