Citizenship In The World MB topic: Human Rights Day

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The importance of Human Rights Day - celebrated annually across the world on December 10. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations adoption, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ABOUTUS/Pages/HumanRightsDay.aspx

 

http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/043/88/IMG/NR004388.pdf?OpenElement

 

The Continental Congress was "only a debating society" back in 1776. And see what they accomplished.