Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, establishing a common standard of fundamental human rights to be universally protected; referenced here as a benchmark against which later human-rights instruments are compared.

Claims that use this term

• The 1993 Vienna declaration was weaker on core freedoms than the 1948 Universal Declaration
• Britain’s welfare-state Labour government worked to keep economic rights out of the Universal Declaration.