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Human Rights Day
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international annual celebration of human rights
Human Rights Day is an international annual celebration dedicated to recognizing and promoting human rights around the world. It matters because it provides a focused time for people globally to reflect on fundamental freedoms and dignity, and to advocate for protecting the rights of all individuals.
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- Instance of
- world day
- Named after
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Founded by
- United Nations
- Official website
- www.un.org/zh/observances/human-rights-day
- Image
- Eleanor Roosevelt UDHR.jpg
- Organizer
- United Nations
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- native label
- Human Rights Day
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- December 11
- inception
- 1950-12-04
- hashtag
- humanrightsday
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- Commons category
- Human Rights Day
- commemorates
- human rights
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Encyclopedic overview
Human Rights Day (HRD) is celebrated annually around the world on 10 December.
The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations. The formal establishment of Human Rights Day occurred at the 317th Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 4 December 1950, when the General Assembly declared resolution 423(V), inviting all member states and any other interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit.
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