Despite continued attacks on the universality of human rights, all countries have accepted...
The universal declaration of human rights was...
2008 is also the anniversary of another milestone in human rights...
Six decades later...
Tunisian journalist Souhayr Belhassen has...
The first time in history that nations...
Belhassen, now president of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues...
The declaration united very diverse and even...
The EU followed suit in 2004...
Dissidents around the world often go to great risk...
...signed on 10 December 1948.
...conflicting political regimes, religious systems and cultural traditions.
...to expose rights abuses.
...issuing a set of guidelines that encourages EU countries to do more to support activists at risk.
...is among 27 prominent rights activists invited to a conference on 7-8 October at the European parliament.
...campaigned in defence of human rights for more than three decades.
...the UN declaration on human rights defenders, adopted in 1998.
...it has become the foundation of international human rights law.
...came together to agree on basic principles of justice, equality, and rights for all.
...the declaration, and some have incorporated it into their constitutions and laws.
