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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a statement of fundamental rights and freedoms adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948. Drafted by a commission chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, from a first draft by John Peters Humphrey, its thirty articles set out civil, political, economic and social rights and became the foundation of international human rights law.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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