ABSTRACT
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written by the Commission on Human Rights, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. It was approved unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, by forty-eight nations with eight abstentions (including six members in the Soviet bloc at the time, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia) to be the common universal standard of human rights for all nations and peoples. The Declaration enumerates all rights and freedoms that each individual is to enjoy irrespective of “race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status.”
