Seventy years ago, when the third session of the General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as resolution 217 A (III) (see A/PV.183), the world’s States were beginning to emerge from catastrophe. Genocide, on a scale never before experienced by humankind, had inflicted monstr…
It is an honour to commemorate here in the General Assembly the United Nations Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which 20 years ago affirmed the vital need to r…
It is an enormous pleasure and honour to welcome the recipients of the 2018 United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. I am moved, not only by their great courage and tenacity but also by the impact of their achievements. Defending human rights is not just a novel act in itself but an essent…
