Human Rights Day : Significance and Quotes

Human Rights Day is noticed each year on 10 December – the day on which the United Nations General Assembly embraced, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights engages all of us. The standards cherished in the Declaration are as applicable today as they were in 1948. We really want to go to bat for our own privileges and those of others. We can make a move in our own day to day routines, to maintain the privileges that secure every one of us and subsequently advance the connection of every single individual.

In December 1948, UNESCO was the primary United Nations office to put the Universal Declaration at the core of all its activity, to advance it across the world through schooling and the media.

Human Rights gain new significance when they become a reality in the regular routine of everyone on the planet. Bringing common freedoms home is at the center of UNESCO’s main goal in the entirety of its fields of capability – training, science, culture and correspondence. With regards to the recognition of the 70th commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), UNESCO brings to the front the centrality of basic freedoms assurance in the set of experiences and the command of the Organization.

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Human Rights Day 2021 Quotes

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” -John F. Kennedy

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” -Frederick Douglass

“A right delayed is a right denied.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

“There can be no peace without development, no development without peace, and no lasting peace or sustainable development without respect for human rights and the rule of law.” – Former UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; 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.” -United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Elie Wiesel

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