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YOUTH
FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL
SUPPORTS
AND PROMOTES
THE UNIVERSAL
DECLARATION
OF HUMAN
RIGHTS
Youth
for Human
Rights
International
supports
and promotes
the United
Nations
Universal
Declaration
of Human
Rights.
The United
Nations,
an international
organization
made up
of 191
countries
of the
world,
created
the Universal
Declaration
of Human
Rights
in 1948,
following
the devastation
of World
War II.
Eleanor
Roosevelt,
the widow
of former
U.S. President
Franklin
D. Roosevelt,
chaired
the United
Nations
Commission
that wrote
the Universal
Declaration.
Where
do universal
rights
begin?
 “In
small places,
close to
home -
so close
and so
small that
they cannot
be seen
on any
maps of
the world.
Yet they
are the
world of
the individual
person;
the neighborhood
he lives
in; the
school
or college
he attends;
the factory,
farm or
office
where he
works.
Such are
the places
where every
man, woman,
and child
seeks equal
justice,
equal opportunity,
equal dignity
without
discrimination.
Unless
these rights
have meaning
there,
they have
little
meaning
anywhere.
Without
concerned
citizen
action
to uphold
them close
to home,
we shall
look in
vain for
progress
in the
larger
world.”
— Eleanor
Roosevelt,
Widow of the former USA President, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, and Chair of the United Nations
Commission that wrote the Universal Declaration
in 1948.
More:
Universal
Declaration
of Human
Rights — Abridged
version
Universal
Declaration
of Human
Rights — full-text
"What are
Human Rights?"
for children
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