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CSW69: Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“We have to continue walking…We still have to cover a long distance, but we are in the right direction.” The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt in the UN Chronicle (1946–1949): On the Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2023 was an opportunity to re-examine the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her colleagues in the United Nations as ...
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Universal human rights declaration: Promise and contradiction

I stand before the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France, on December 11, 1948. Yesterday, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, comprising a preamble and 30 ...
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Reflecting on and Recharging the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after Seventy-Five Years

The horrors of the Second World War spurred countries throughout the world to come together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 10, this critical international ...
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South Sudan: Extend UN Investigations, Stand Ready to Respond to Any Further Deterioration of the Human Rights Situation

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s (hereafter “HRC” or “Council”) 61st regular session (23 February – 31 March 2026), we, ...