 Some 6,000 women and children from the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica assembled in Tuzla in 1996, one year after their fathers, husbands and sons had disappeared.
© UNHCR/H.J.
Davies
International Human Rights Day commemorates
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(UDHR) and the people that have dedicated
their lives to defending human rights around
the world. For more information and a schedule
of events, refer to the UN
website.
The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
on 10 December 1948 “as a common standard of achievement
for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every
organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive
by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and
by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal
and effective recognition and observance...”
Documents
Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)
General publications
Web Resources
Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)
International Instruments
Annual Human Rights Surveys
Refugee rights
Relevant Organizations
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10 December - International Human Rights Day