Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Turns 75

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, in 1948 (Credit: AFP)

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the hope of creating a better world after the horrors of World War II.

Coming three years after the Allied victory over the Nazis, it was the first time that countries had agreed to protect fundamental rights and freedoms on a universal scale, for all people.