The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the
UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the
experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the
creation of the United Nations, the international community vowed never
again to allow atrocities like those of that conflict happen again.
World leaders decided to complement the UN Charter with a road map to
guarantee the rights of every individual everywhere. The document they
considered, and which would later become the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, was taken up at the first session of the General Assembly
in 1946. The Assembly reviewed this draft Declaration on Fundamental
Human Rights and Freedoms and transmitted it to the Economic and Social
Council "for reference to the Commission on Human Rights for
consideration . . . in its preparation of an international bill of
rights." The Commission, at its first session early in 1947, authorized
its members to formulate what it termed "a preliminary draft
International Bill of Human Rights". Later the work was taken over by a
formal drafting committee, consisting of members of the Commission from
eight States, selected with due regard for geographical distribution.
See the whole document at:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
See also:
http://healthydocuments.org/rights/doc7.html
See:
http://healthydocuments.org/public/doc17.html
Adopted on 16 November 1974 by the World Food Conference convened
under General Assembly resolution 3180 (XXVIII) of 17 December 1973; and
endorsed by General Assembly resolution 3348 (XXIX) of 17 December 1974.
The World Food Conference, Convened by the General Assembly of the
United Nations and entrusted with developing ways and means whereby the
international community, as a whole, could take specific action to
resolve the world food problem within the broader context of development
and international economic co-operation…
See the full document at:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/malnutrition.htm
See:
http://healthydocuments.org/public/doc18.html
The Arusha Declaration, which was passed on January 29, 1967,
summarized Tanzania’s commitment to socialism and the significant role
that it was to play in the country’s development. The document was
originally written by Julius K. Nyerere, who served as the first
president of Tanzania between 1964 and 1985. The Tanganyika African
National Union (TANU), the major political party before and after
independence, also helped establish the principles which guided the
Declaration. Ten years later in 1977, President Nyerere wrote an
assessment of the document.
Source of introduction:
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=gah/arusha-declaration
See Full PDF document at:
http://www.tzonline.org/pdf/thearushadeclarationtenyearsafter.pdf
Declaration from the International Conference on Primary Health Care,
Alma-Ata, September 1978, expressing the need for urgent national and
international action to protect and promote the health of all, believing
that it is a fundamental human right and that the attainment of the
highest possible level of health is a most important world-wide social
goal whose realization requires the action of many other social and
economic sectors in addition to the health sector.
Source:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/who-we-are/policy-documents/declaration-of-alma-ata,-1978
See Full PDF document at:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/113877/E93944.pdf
‘Health for all by year 2000” has now become the target for all WHO
Member States. But what does this idea mean? And what are its
ramifications? WHO’s Director General explains.
See Full PDF document at:
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/temp/Mahler_1981_WorldHealthForum.pdf
Adopted by the World Conference to review and appraise the
achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality,
Development and Peace, held in Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 July 1985.
Source:
http://www.5wwc.org/conference_background/1985_WCW_strategies.html
For the Conference Report see PDF:
http://www.5wwc.org/downloads/Report_of_WCW-1985.pdf
On 25 June 1993, representatives of 171 States adopted by consensus
the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the World Conference
on Human Rights, thus successfully closing the two-week World conference
and presenting to the international community a common plan for the
strengthening of human rights work around the world. The conference was
marked by an unprecedented degree of participation by government
delegates and the international human rights community. Some 7,000
participants, including academics, treaty bodies, national institutions
and representatives of more than 800 non-governmental organizations
(NGOs)—two thirds of them at the grass-roots level—gathered in Vienna to
review and profit from their shared experiences. United Nations
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in a message to the Conference,
told the delegates that by adopting the Vienna Declaration and Plan of
Action they had renewed the international community's commitment to the
promotion and protection of human rights. He saluted the meeting for
having forged "a new vision for global action for human rights into the
next century". The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action marks the
culmination of a long process of review and debate over the current
status of human rights machinery in the world. It also marks the
beginning of a renewed effort to strengthen and further implement the
body of human rights instruments that have been painstakingly
constructed on the foundation of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights since 1948.
Source:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/ViennaWC.aspx
See the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action at:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/vienna.htm
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