The international human rights movement was strengthened when the United

Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(UDHR) on 10 December 1948. Drafted as ‘a common standard of achievement for

all peoples and nations’, the Declaration for the first time in human history

has spelled out basic civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights

that all human beings should enjoy. It has over time been widely accepted as

the fundamental norms of human rights that everyone should respect and protect.

The UDHR, together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights and its two Optional Protocols, and the International Covenant on

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, form the so - called International Bill

of Human Rights.

According to the text, the international human

rights movement was toughened due to