By Delphine Dorsi , 10 December 2014

On December 10th,  we celebrate Human Rights Day  in order “to bring to the attention of ‘people of the world’ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as the common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations” (UN General Assembly, 1950).

Adopted on 10 December 1948, the UDHR is the first international document, which formally sets out fundamental human rights to be universally protected.