10D Human Rights Day: the campaign begins to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the UDHR in 2023

In this year 2022 Human Rights Day, which is celebrated every December 10 under the motto "Dignity, freedom and justice for all",  marks the starting signal for the important anniversary that will take place just within 365 days, when the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is commemorated. And during the entire year until that date, the United Nations launches its year-long campaign to disseminate the legacy of the Declaration, focusing on its legacy, relevance and activism.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is much more than the sum of its preamble and its 30 articles establishing a wide variety of rights. This declaration has become a kind of global 'constitution' that guarantees the most important rights that protect any human being anywhere in the world without distinction of nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, language, or any other condition.

It has managed to consolidate itself as a basis for the expansion of the protection of human rights to vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, indigenous peoples and migrants.

But there will be those who say that there has been a reversal in the achievement of some of the achievements of the Declaration, among them, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, according to whom "it is absolutely clear that we need to recover the universality and indivisibility of human rights, and we need to find a new energy that motivates young people around the world."

If the UDHR was drafted based on the proposals of representatives of very different social and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world in the 1940s to be signed in 1948, it is also true that what it promised, dignity and equal rights, has been under constant attack in recent years. 

The world has had to face new challenges and old acquaintances, from the pandemic to wars, without the UDHR having ceased to be a supranational standard so that no one is left behind. 

For this reason, and because things are not done alone, the campaign that starts this Saturday and will run until December 10, 2023 is aimed at making the text better known and that its future be associated with activism actions that allow for a much greater penetration of the rights it proclaims, something that we at Fraternidad-Muprespa fully support.