Universal Declaration of the Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.

Description

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights.

Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.

The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles). 

Status of signatures

Algeria

Signed: Yes
Date Signed: 01/11/1989
Ratified: Yes
Date of Ratification: 01/11/1994
Domestication: No

Angola

Signed: Yes
Date Signed: 08/11/2022
Ratified: Yes
Date of Ratification: 08/11/2022
Domestication: Yes

Benin

Signed: Yes
Ratified: Yes
Domestication: Yes

Ethiopia

Signed: No
Ratified: Yes
Date of Ratification: 10/12/1948
Domestication: No

Lesotho

Signed: No
Ratified: No
Domestication: No

Mozambique

Signed: Yes
Ratified: Yes
Domestication: No

Nigeria

Signed: Yes
Date Signed: 07/10/1960
Ratified: No
Domestication: No

Uganda

Signed: Yes
Ratified: No
Domestication: No

Zambia

Signed: No
Ratified: No
Domestication: No

Further information

Last update

24/05/2023, 16:54