December 10 has been declared International Human Rights Day. This date is a commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted on December 10, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly.

Following this historic act, the Assembly invited all member states to promulgate the text of the Declaration and endeavor to have it disseminated, presented, read and explained, especially in schools and other educational institutions, in all countries and states regardless of status their political.

The General Assembly proclaimed this declaration as a general ideal which should be achieved by all peoples and all nations, so that every human being and every social organism, always having in mind this Declaration, strives to, through teaching and education , to assist in the observance of these rights and freedoms and, through progressive national and international measures, to ensure their general and genuine recognition and application, both among the peoples of the Member States themselves and among the peoples of those territories under their administration.

In this declaration, the universality, indivisible and inalienable character of rights and freedoms, of international human rights standards stands out; international human rights legislation; inherited rights; institutions and procedures for the development and protection of human rights.