International Day of Human Rights: Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now, 10 December 2024

Human Rights Day, which was created to commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), is celebrated every year around the world on December 10th.

The Declaration was announced on December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly and it established, for the first time, fundamental rights to be universally protected, regardless of the race, colour, religion, sex, language, nation or social origin, birth or other status of human beings. 

Human Rights Day focuses on how human rights are a route to solutions and play a critical role as a protective and transformative force. 

This year’s theme, “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now”, aims to acknowledge the importance and relevance of human rights in our everyday lives. Human Rights impact everyone and this campaign will show the tangible impact of human rights focusing on relevant global issues, promoting successes and practical solutions. 

Celebrating human rights is important because they are preventive, protective and transformative: by defending human rights, we can prevent harm before it happens; by protecting human rights, we protect our future and by advancing human rights, we create a fairer world. 

Every year, the Human Rights Centre organizes a national conference on the occasion of the International Human Rights Day. This year, it will revolve around The Care of Human Rights between Impunity, Effectiveness and Legality. 

Impunity represents the most significant obstacle to justice and reparation for the victims and survivors of human rights violations; it fuels inequalities, it hits those who are most vulnerable and weakens the trust in democratic institutions and in domestic and international law. 

The Effectiveness of international law of human rights comes from the interaction between actors, norms and institutions; the governments have the duty to make these institutions work as they are fundamental in order to build peace and justice. 

Legality defines the limit for individual freedom and marks the space in which an individual can conduct its freedom without violating the others’. 

All the information about the event is available at the Conference page.