Human rights

Children and adults in Sweden and other corners of the world continue to experience violations of their human rights each and every day. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights exists to protect the individual from human rights violations by any nation’s policies or actions. Efforts to defend peoples’ human rights are continuous and are as crucial today as ever before.

On December 10, 1948, after the Second World War and the Nazis incomprehensible murder of millions of Jews and other people deemed less worthy, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Declaration contains 30 articles -- among them the right to life, freedom and personal security, freedom of expression, education and nationality. Human rights are universal and indivisible. This means that the rights are equally important and cannot be ranked. Nor can they be earned -- all people are automatically entitled to human rights, regardless of gender, religion, age, sexuality, ethnicity and so on. The Universal Declaration is without a doubt the world’s most substantial and well-known document about human rights.