The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. It was drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt and accepted by the General Assembly as Resolution 217 during its third session on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. The UDHR outlines 30 rights and freedoms that belong to all of us and that nobody can take away from us. These rights include:

• Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion: This right includes freedom to change ones religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest ones religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

• Freedom from discrimination: Everyone can claim their rights regardless of sex, race, language, religion, social standing, etc. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

• Right to a free and fair world: Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

• Rights are inalienable: No one, institution nor individual, should act in any way to destroy the rights enshrined in the UDHR. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

The UDHR is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations and, by extension, all 193 parties of the United Nations Charter. Although it is not legally binding, the protection of the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration has been incorporated into many national constitutions and domestic legal frameworks. The UDHR has inspired more than 80 international conventions and treaties, as well as numerous regional conventions and domestic laws. It has been the catalyst for improving human rights protections for groups such as disabled people, indigenous peoples, and women.