70 Reflections on Human Rights
On the 10 th December 1948 the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. At the time, the Chairperson of the General Assembly remarked that ‘it was the first occasion on which the organized community of nations had made a declaration of human rights and fundamental freedoms’, and that ‘millions of people, men, women and children all over the world, would turn to it for help, guidance and inspiration’.