New York — Seventy years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was signed in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. Following two devastating world wars the United Nations General Assembly set out a brand new vision of human rights that the world could agree on going forward. It is still the benchmark by which most modern-day human rights organisations live.
The first line of the Declaration states in a clear and compelling way that that all human beings are born free and equal. In practice, freedom and equality are the foundation from which every other fundamental human right is derived.
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