Following the horrors of the Second World War, the newly formed United Nations decided that humanity needed a common set of principles to govern individual rights.
A committee of representatives from around the world, led by Eleanor Roosevelt, the former First Lady of the United States, was established. This committee subsequently produced a document that became the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Its 30 articles cover everything from the right to property, a fair trial, and free assembly to – importantly, for those of us who have faith – Article 18, which protects the right to freedom of religion or belief.
