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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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 Suffrage (Right to Vote)1893The 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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- International Criminal Court1998-2002The crimes it prosecutes violate the rights set out in 1948
- Disability Rights Convention2006
- Data Protection (GDPR)2018
- EU AI Act2024-2028