New Delhi (NVI): Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 around the world, to create awareness about the social, cultural and physical rights and to ensure the welfare of society.
Every year, a new theme is set to celebrate the day and make people aware of their fundamental human rights as well as their responsibilities as a part of society.
This year, the United Nations has set the theme for Human Rights Day 2020 as ‘Recover Better —Stand Up For Human Rights’. It is related to the COVID-19 pandemic which focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring human rights are central to recovery efforts.
According to the UN, human rights must be at the centre of the post-COVID world as the pandemic crisis has been fuelled by deepening poverty, rising inequalities, discrimination, and other gaps in human rights protection.
It is only possible to close these gaps and advance human rights can ensure we fully recover and build back a world that is better, more resilient, just, and sustainable, UN said in a statement.
Human Rights Day was adopted by the UN General Assembly, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. The UDHR is a milestone document which outlines the fundamental rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status must be protected universally.
The day reaffirms the significance of human rights in re-building the world everyone want for global solidarity as well as for interconnectedness and shared humanity.
-RJV
