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The UN Charter also begins by affirming “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.”(………). The first major accomplishment of the UN in the case of human rights was the implementation by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The Universal Declaration was a milestone achievement in the history of the world. It was the first time that the rights and freedoms of every human being were set out in such detail (……). It was also the first project to make Human rights recognisable in an international level and that fundamental freedom is applicable to everyone, everywhere. Today, it still affects people’s lives, because it serves as a model for a number of international agreements and declarations and has been combined in the constitutions and laws of many countries (Marshall 2001). The Declaration has motivated more than 60 global human rights implementations, which when combined established …show more content…

These human rights 'instruments', as they are called, have fixed how many rights apply to particular groups of human beings such as women or children. They have also come up with new ideas that were not part of the thinking of those who first drafted the Universal Declaration. The link between human rights and other pillars is clearly evident all the way through the UDHR. First, it allows, in the Preamble, that the credit of the unchallengeable rights of all people is the groundwork of freedom, justice and peace across the world. Secondly, it expands the UN Charter’s stated purpose of encouraging growth by giving economic, social and cultural rights the in the same degree of safety that an individual finds for civil and political rights (Marshall

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