ON Dec 10, 1948 – three years after the Allied victory over the Nazis in World War II – the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the hopes of creating a better world after the horrors of the war.
It was the first time that countries agreed on fundamental rights and freedoms to be protected on a universal scale, for all people. It was also one of the first achievements of the UN, itself born from the ashes of WWII.
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