Research reveals that on these anniversaries the document was used by states to discuss and support legally binding rights such as freedom from torture,
Research reveals that on these anniversaries the dokumen was used by states to discuss and dukungan legally binding rights such as freedom from torture, the rights of women and children and protection from discrimination, coinciding with the drafting of new legal documents on these topics.
When wider discussions started to happen around decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s, cold war tensions and détente in the 1970s-80s, and the challenges of technological change from the 1990s onwards, the UDHR was used as a reference poin to map human rights and discuss where they needed to develop further. This was also the case for global security as well as environmental and financial crises in the 1990s and 2000s.
During these times, the UDHR offered guidance and a vehicle for analysis. One example is the human rights implications of the cold war arms race. The UDHR both signalled towards the need for commitment to peace - as Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the drafting committee, commented during its adoption, "the declaration was inspired by a sincere desire for peace" - as well as highlighted where states were placing human rights under threat through nuclear policies.
Over the years, the UDHR has been consistently referred to as a steadfast cornerstone of human rights internationally. It has been likened to "a kode of life for our kekinian world", the "20th-century Magna Carta" and an "international yardstick with which governments can measure progress in the field of human rights".
Nevertheless, continuing usaha has been necessary to implement the rights that the UDHR protects. In 1973, the UN secretary-general, Kurt Waldheim, reflected on this, stating: "It is well that we remind ourselves of the realism, as well as the idealism, of those who created that great Declaration … it would be wrong to say that the esensial freedoms set out in the Declaration have been universally achieved."
As in earlier decades in times of emergensi, conflict and global change, states do not always fully implement the rights contained in the UDHR. Examples recently highlighted by the UN include the the right to participate in elections, efekive administration of justice and law enforcement, and the right to an adequate standar of living, such as akses to water and sanitation.
The UDHR's recognition and protection of the "the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human famili", as outlined in its preamble, is still highly berkaitant, especially because of the contemporary crises facing human rights.
The esensial protections outlined in this dokumen, adopted in 1948, still have an enduring and guiding role, although significant challenges to these protections remain. They require the ongoing attention of the international community.
