On a day like today, but from 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in Paris, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (DUDH), which publishes, in detail, 30 articles with basic human rights. However, it took a long time for the DUDH to be consolidated as an international treaty, as it initially lacked consensus to protect and respect these established human rights. In the aforementioned 30 articles, the DUDH determines the rights of thought, conscience, religion, economic, social, cultural, conditions and limits, but above all ensures the equality of each and every human being from birth.
Chaillot Palace, 1948.
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and, endowed as they are of reason and conscience, must behave fraternally with each other,” thus reciting the article first. And so the second: “Everyone has all the rights and freedoms proclaimed in this Declaration, without distinction of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic position, birth or any other condition. In addition, no distinction will be made based on the political, legal or international status of the country or territory on whose jurisdiction a person depends, whether it is an independent country, or a territory under fiduciary, non-self-contained administration or subject to any other limitation of sovereignty”. While the DUDH did not urged individual States to be taken as obligatory, it did serve to generate a basis on which to begin to repudiate illegitimate acts that would undermine the integrity of individuals.
Since 1950, every December 10 is remembered as Human Rights Day and, since the early 2000s, every year a different theme has been covered. This year’s “A Better Recovery: Defend human rights” is titled and, given the terrible global circumstances, it took advantage of the axis of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This year, the issue of Human Rights Day is related to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to rebuild to improve, ensuring that human rights are the basis for recovery efforts. We will only achieve our common goals around the world if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures that the pandemic has highlighted, and apply human rights standards to address entrenched, systematic and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination,” the United Nations announced in a statement.
December 10 is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights to build the world we want again, the need for global solidarity, and the interconnection and humanity we share as human beings.
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