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Human Rights (1948)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948) sets out equal basic rights for all people for the first time.
Open in the interactive tree →Adopted in Paris by the UN General Assembly with 48 votes in favor and 8 abstentions. It is not binding, but became the basis of the human rights covenants (1966), the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) and many constitutions.
Prerequisites
- Magna Carta1215Eleanor Roosevelt hoped the Declaration would become an international Magna Carta
- Enlightenment & Encyclopedia1715-1789
- Constitutions & Checks on Power1787
- Abolition of Slavery1833Article 4 of the 1948 Declaration prohibits slavery
- Universal Suffrage1893The 1948 declaration (Art. 21) demands universal and equal suffrage
- Nuremberg Trials1945The Declaration followed the Nuremberg principles and the shock of the Holocaust
- United Nations1945
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- Disability Rights Convention2006
- Data Protection (GDPR)2018
- EU AI Act2024-2028