On December 10, 1948, the United Nations Organization (UNO) instituted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first universal document to lay the foundation for human rights, representing a significant change in countering World War II.
In its preamble and among its 30 articles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, regardless of nationality, color, sex or sexual orientation, political conviction and religious belief. Its guiding principle is to promote world peace by strengthening humanitarian rights, conceiving an ideal to be followed by all peoples and nations.
It is the most translated document in modern history and is available in over three hundred and sixty (360) languages. The Declaration of Human Rights remains to mediate relations between nations, as well as to balance relations between the nation itself and its people, in order to propagate respect, dignity, freedom, and equality.
On this day, besides celebrating the advances made, it is important to reflect on concrete actions to guarantee the civil, political, social, and environmental rights of the entire world population.
[1] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights [2] https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf [3] https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/translations/portuguese?LangID=por. [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWjguo545vEBy Isabella Parisi, lawyer specializing in Educational Law at Barcellos Tucunduva.
