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11/12/22 12:01 PM IST

Human Rights Day 2022

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  • Every year Human Rights Day is observed on December 10.
  • The day is celebrated to create awareness and mobilise political will to promote respect for the human rights and freedom associated with it.
  • Theme- 'Dignity, freedom, and justice.'
History
  • In the immediate wake of WWII, there was a growing clamour for ensuring that the atrocities committed during the conflict would not be repeated.
  • In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which encapsulated the common standard that every country and person should try to achieve in terms of human rights.
  • Two years later, the first International Human Rights Day was marked in honour of the adoption of the UDHR.
Significance 
  • Human rights and human rights awareness are increasingly important topics in the 21st century with greater awareness of the fact that a person’s race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinions, national and social origin, property, birth and status cannot come in the way of being treated with basic decency.
  • Human rights cover everything from basic dignity, liberty, and equality to freedoms like the right to life and the prohibition of slavery and torture.
Source- The Tribune

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