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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_WHO.svg/220px-Flag_of_WHO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_WHO.svg/330px-Flag_of_WHO.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Flag_of_WHO.svg/440px-Flag_of_WHO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services…</figcaption></figure> <p><small>(<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/">Full text online</a>)</small> </p> <ul><li><b>the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want</b> has been proclaimed as the <b>highest <a href="/wiki/Aspiration" title="Aspiration">aspiration</a></b> of the common people, Whereas <b>it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to <a href="/wiki/Rebellion" title="Rebellion">rebellion</a> against <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oppression" title="Oppression">oppression</a>, that <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> should be protected by the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a>,</b> Whereas it is essential to promote the development of <b><a href="/wiki/Friendship" title="Friendship">friendly</a> relations between nations, </b> Whereas the peoples of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> have in the Charter reaffirmed their <b>faith in fundamental human rights, in the <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> and worth of the human person and in the <a href="/wiki/Equal_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Equal rights">equal rights</a> of <a href="/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men">men</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a> and have determined to promote <a href="/wiki/Social" class="mw-redirect" title="Social">social</a> <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">progress</a> and better standards of life</b> in larger freedom, Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in <a href="/wiki/Co-operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Co-operation">co-operation</a> with the United Nations, the promotion of <a href="/wiki/Universal_value" title="Universal value">universal</a> <a href="/wiki/Respect" title="Respect">respect</a> for and observance of human rights and fundamental <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedoms</a>, Whereas <b>a common <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a> of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge.</b></li> <li>The General Assembly <br /> Proclaims this <b>Universal Declaration of Human Rights</b> as a common standard of <a href="/wiki/Achievement" title="Achievement">achievement</a> for <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Peoples">peoples</a> and all <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a>, to the end that every <a href="/wiki/Individual" class="mw-redirect" title="Individual">individual</a> and every organ of <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by <a href="/wiki/Teaching" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaching">teaching</a> and <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> to promote <a href="/wiki/Respect" title="Respect">respect</a> for these <a href="/wiki/Rights" title="Rights">rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedoms">freedoms</a> and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their <a href="/wiki/Universal" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal">universal</a> and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. <ul><li>Preamble</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>All <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> beings are <a href="/wiki/Born" class="mw-redirect" title="Born">born</a> <a href="/wiki/Free" class="mw-redirect" title="Free">free</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equal" class="mw-redirect" title="Equal">equal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rights" title="Rights">rights</a>. They are endowed with <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> and should act towards one another in a <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">spirit</a> of <a href="/wiki/Brotherhood" title="Brotherhood">brotherhood</a>.</b> <ul><li>Article 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.</b> <br /> Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. <ul><li>Article 2</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.</b> <ul><li>Article 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>No one shall be held in <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.</b> <ul><li>Article 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>No one shall be subjected to <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a> or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or <a href="/wiki/Punishment" title="Punishment">punishment</a>.</b> <ul><li>Article 5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a <a href="/wiki/Person" class="mw-redirect" title="Person">person</a> before the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>. <ul><li>Article 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>All are equal before the law</b> and are entitled without any <a href="/wiki/Discrimination" title="Discrimination">discrimination</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_protection" class="extiw" title="w:Equal protection">equal protection</a> of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. <ul><li>Article 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. <ul><li>Article 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to freedom of <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a></b>; this right includes freedom to <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> his religion or <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a>, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, <a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">worship</a> and observance. <ul><li>Article 18</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression</b>; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. <ul><li>Article 19</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful <a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">assembly</a></b> and association. <ul><li>Article 20</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. </b> <ul><li>Article 25<b></b></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Everyone has the right to <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a></b>... Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship... Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. <ul><li>Article 26</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/">View full text</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_the_Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights">Quotes about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Quotes about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Now that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 75 years old, it’s time to take [it] out and bury it. <ul><li>As curated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Goble" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul A. Goble">Paul A. Goble</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/12/russian-philosophers-now-debating-which.html">"Russian Philosophers Now Debating Which Increased in Price First – the Chicken or the Egg?"</a>, <i>Window on Eurasia</i> (December 15, 2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The UDHR was much less “Western” than many believe, and reading it through the lenses of an alleged opposition of the West versus the rest makes for [maliciously] ideological, inaccurate interpretation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Massimo_Introvigne" title="Massimo Introvigne">Massimo Introvigne</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitterwinter.org/chinas-secret-weapon-changing-the-meaning-of-human-rights/">China’s Secret Weapon: Changing the Meaning of “Human Rights”</a>, <i>Bitter Winter</i> (February 26, 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>On 10 December 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly gathered in... Paris... <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, chair of the agreement’s drafting committee, described it as an “international <a href="/wiki/Magna_Carta" title="Magna Carta">Magna Carta</a> for all mankind,” and member states pledged “to achieve ...the promotion of universal respect for and observance of <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">fundamental freedoms</a>.” It was the first international agreement on the basic principles of human rights. <ul><li>The Guardian <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/from-the-archive-blog/2018/nov/28/un-adopts-universal-declaration-human-rights-paris-1948"><i>UN adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights – archive, December 1948; Guardian</i></a> (28 Nov 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The legacy of the UDHR can never be underestimated. <b>It is a landmark document that “proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being -- regardless of <a href="/wiki/Race" class="mw-disambig" title="Race">race</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colors" title="Colors">color</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gender" title="Gender">sex</a>, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”</b> It was the direct response to the heinous crimes perpetrated by the Nazis and a much-needed affirmation of human rights for everyone everywhere. <ul><li>Ewelina U. Ochab in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2018/12/07/affirm-human-dignity-for-everyone-everywhere-and-stand-up-for-human-rights/"><i>Affirm Human Dignity For Everyone Everywhere And Stand Up For Human Rights, Forbes</i></a> (7 December 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, <a href="/wiki/Equal_opportunity" title="Equal opportunity">equal opportunity</a>, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a> from a speech "The Great Question" delivered at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 1958, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://harpers.org/2007/12/roosevelt-on-human-rights-in-the-small-places/">"Roosevelt on Human Rights in the Small Places"</a>, <i>Harper's Magazine</i> (December 2, 2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just months after its founding, the UN also formed its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Human_Rights_Commission" class="extiw" title="w:U.N. Human Rights Commission">Human Rights Commission</a>, chaired by former First Lady <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, to draft the landmark <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> adopted in Paris on December 10, 1948. In addition, instead of firing squads for the defeated Axis leaders, the United States led the Allies in convening <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" class="extiw" title="w:Nuremberg trials">tribunals at Nuremburg</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East" class="extiw" title="w:International Military Tribunal for the Far East">Tokyo</a> in 1945-1946 that tried their war crimes under <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a>. Three years later, Washington joined the international community in adopting the four modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_conventions" class="extiw" title="w:Geneva conventions">Geneva conventions</a> that laid down the laws of war for future conflicts to protect both captives and civilians. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation" class="extiw" title="w:The Nation">The Nation</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/how-did-the-united-states-abandon-diplomacy/"><i>How Did the United States Abandon Diplomacy?, Alfred McCoy</i></a> (22 May 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We just heard from the Minister of <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a>. Let us recall that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company" class="extiw" title="w:United Fruit Company">United Fruit Company</a> essentially ran his country for a long time. United Fruit’s attorney was US Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles" title="John Foster Dulles">John Foster Dulles</a>, and his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles" class="extiw" title="w:Allen Dulles">Allen Dulles</a> was the head of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a>. On behalf of United Fruit Company, the two Dulles Brothers conspired to overthrow President <a href="/wiki/Jacobo_Arbenz_Guzm%C3%A1n" title="Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán">Jacobo Árbenz</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" class="extiw" title="w:Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, next door to Honduras, in order to stop the land reforms that Árbenz was trying to implement.<br /> <b>So, yes, we have a global food system, but we need a different system. That different system must be based on the principle of universal human dignity in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, the principle of national sovereignty in the UN Charter, and the economic rights in the Universal Declaration and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_of_Economic,_Social,_and_Cultural_Rights" class="extiw" title="w:International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights">International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights</a>. In the Universal Declaration, all governments agreed that social protection is a human right, not merely a “nice thing,” or a pleasant thing, but a basic human right. That was 73 years ago.<br />The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals" class="extiw" title="w:Sustainable Development Goals">Sustainable Development Goals</a> are our generation's pledge to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Yet I come from a country that not only doesn't care about the world's poor, it doesn't even care about its own poor. One in seven Americans is hungry right now, but one <a href="/wiki/Political_parties" title="Political parties">political party</a> cares about little more than cutting <a href="/wiki/Taxation" title="Taxation">taxes</a> for the rich and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster" class="extiw" title="w:Filibuster">filibustering</a> any real solutions to <a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs" title="Jeffrey Sachs">Jeffrey Sachs</a>' speech at the UN Food Systems Pre-summit, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jeffsachs.org/recorded-lectures/5jf86pp5lxch35e6z3nct6xnmb8zy5">Speech transcript</a> (July 27, 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">Americans</a> who first discovered how the UN could serve their <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> purposes. The text of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights was passed in 1948 by a coalition of American <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Dealers</a>, western European liberals, and postcolonial elites, with the Soviets unable to block it. They in the end abstained from the vote, along with seven other states. Forty-eight voted in favor. The <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chilean</a> representative summed up the conflict in distinct terms: “The views expressed by the <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Polish</a> representative and shared by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">USSR</a> delegation resulted from a different conception of life and man. The draft declaration rested on the assumption that the interests of the individual came before those of the State and that the State should not be allowed to deprive the individual of his dignity and his basic rights. The opposing conception was that the rights of the individual must give precedence to the interests of society.” The declaration may not have had much practical significance in the first decades of the Cold War, but its adaptation was a victory for the United States over Soviet concepts of rights. <ul><li>Odd Arne Westad, <i>The Cold War: A World History</i> (2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Activism" title="Activism">Activism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">Compassion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooperation" title="Cooperation">Cooperation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">Food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">Healthcare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharing" title="Sharing">Sharing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">Shelter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs" title="Maslow's hierarchy of needs">Maslow's hierarchy of needs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">Rule of law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youth_activism" title="Youth activism">Youth activism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">Unity</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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