Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) (French) (Spanish) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights website contains any available UDHR translations with no distinction between languages and dialects since all of them serve the purpose of global dissemination.
At present, there are 439 different translations of UDHR, available in HTML and/or PDF format.
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