Please join the SF Gray Panthers in a public reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights) on Monday, December 11, 2023 @ noon on the steps on the Polk Street side of SF City Hall! (In cooperation with the office of SF Board of Supervisor Dean Preston). For more information, please email us at ! -SF Gray Panthers
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
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).