The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), approved by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, was the first international treaty to expressly affirm universal respect for human rights. Prior to 1948 no truly international standard of humanitarian beliefs existed. Although Article 1 of the 1945 UN Charter had been written with this proposal and others like it were not adopted; instead, the UDHR was commissioned and drafted.
The original mandate for producing the document was given to the UN Commission on Human Rights in February 1946. Between that time and the General Assembly’s final approval of the document, the UDHR passed through an elaborate eight-stage drafting process in which it made its way through almost every level of the others the right to work, the right to rest and leisure, and the right to education.
While the UDHR is in many ways a progressive document, it also has weaknesses, the most regrettable of which is its nonbinding legal status. For all its strong language and high ideals, the UDHR remains a resolution of a purely programmatic nature. Nevertheless, the document has led, even if belatedly, to the strive, and as a call to arms in the name of humanity, justice, and freedom.
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