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The United Nations General Assembly (Commission on Human Rights, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt)

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The Universal Declaration was drafted in 1947–1948 by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. Its principal drafters included the Canadian lawyer John Humphrey, who prepared the first draft, the French jurist René Cassin, the Lebanese philosopher Charles Malik and the Chinese scholar and diplomat P. C. Chang.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

10 December 1948 · Postwar Contemporary · Political Theory

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a statement of fundamental rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on 10 December 1948. It was written in the shadow of the Second World War and the Holocaust, when the founders of the United Nations resolved that the dignity of every person must be recognized by all nations.