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The 59 pages that link to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, each with the reason it gives.

• Human rightsBroader topic: It gave postwar international expression to rights claimed for every person.

• Human dignityBroader topic: Its preamble identifies inherent dignity as the basis of freedom, justice, and peace.

• United Nations General AssemblyBroader topic: The assembly adopted this declaration, giving it lasting influence despite its nonbinding status.

• International human rights lawBroader topic: Its principles became the foundation for later global human-rights treaties.

• Eleanor RooseveltBroader topic: Its drafting was the defining diplomatic achievement of Roosevelt’s postwar career.

• RightsBroader topic: It gave postwar international expression to claims of universal entitlement.

• Fundamental rightsBroader topic: It supplies a foundational global statement of rights, though it is not itself a treaty.

• Moral universalismBroader topic: It states rights as a shared standard while emerging from international debate.

• Age of EnlightenmentBroader topic: Its universal language extends a rights tradition shaped in part by Enlightenment political thought.

• Individual rightsBroader topic: It extended rights language into a postwar international framework.

• René CassinBroader topic: Cassin helped shape its text, the work most closely associated with his legacy.

• History of human rightsBroader topic: It consolidated postwar rights principles in a globally influential statement.

• Natural rights and legal rightsBroader topic: It presents universal entitlements in a document that is not itself a treaty.