United Nations and Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
The organization agitated for the rights...........................................................................................2
Their actions to legitimate their claims...........................................................................................4
Fight for the rights...........................................................................................................................6
Challenges and the obstacles...........................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
After the end of the World War II, the United Nations merged as the international
peacekeeping organization. It was the forum that aims to resolve all the conflicts among the
nations in the world (Conforti and Focarelli 2016). Replaced by the ineffective League of
Nations, United Nations aimed towards the security and the international peace unlike League of
Nations which resulted in the outbreak of the Second World War.
Established in the year October 24 in the year 1945 headquartered in the city of New
York , the organization emerged as the global leadership in the period of post war. The essay
highlights the emergence of the establishment of the international organization known as the
United Nations and also the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Keesstra et al 2016.). The essay aims to explain the historical struggle for the human rights
targeting the query regrading the rights are universal or not. In the context of the historical
context post the World War II, the assignment presents arguments related to the actions by the
United Nations, the fights for the rights and the main moto of the UDHR and also the obstacles
faced during the implementation of the universal human rights.
The organization agitated for the rights
The World War II pitted Japan, Germany and Italy against Great Britain , the United
States and Soviet Union and engulfed the entire globe in the firestorm of destruction and death.
The horrors of the World War II reinforced the requirements and the demands for the
development and establishment of global bill of human rights (Na 2016). The intention was the
creation of the treaty were each and every state will recognize the rights of every individual on

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their territory regarding their life, religious belief, their liberty and the use of their own mother
language.
The Universal Declaration of the Human Rights (UDHR) is the international document
that includes the basic and the inalienable rights and the basic freedoms towards which all the
human rights are being entitled. This declaration was being adopted by the General Assembly of
the United Nations on the year 10 December, 1948 (Weiss 2016). Inspired and motivated by the
experience regarding the preceding world wards and the global conflicts , the Universal
Declaration was the documents that aimed to bind all the countries and the nations regarding the
comprehensive statement of the inalienable rights of each and every human.
The deceleration is not basically a treaty since it does not initiate in legal obligations for
the countries in the globe. The UDHR is the expression of the fundamental values that are
generally shared by all the members of the community in the internal basis. With the profound
influence over the development of the international human rights law, UDHR has become a
binding part of the customary international law.
On joining the delegation of the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt initiated the need and
responsibility of her and her fellow in the United Nations towards the recognition of the mutual
devotion to the land (Kismödi and Ferguson 2018). She felt that being the one world, it is
important for remember that injuring one is injuring all and it is responsibility of all the nations
in the world to build a lasting peace among the globe.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights was being designed for serving the foundations
for the protection of the future human rights. The organization and the treaty agitating for the