Statement on International Human Rights Day

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Observed each year on 10 December, International Human Rights Day marks the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark document that, for the first time, set out the fundamental rights and freedoms inalienable to all human beings. This year, the United Nations, through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, has marked the Day with the theme “Human Rights: Our Everyday Essentials”. The theme highlights both how deeply human rights are embedded in daily life and how unevenly they are experienced, particularly during moments of crisis when access to aid, information, and dignity becomes a matter of survival.

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