The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Considered to be the most important memorandum on civil liberties, this document set the standard in a post-war world. “The essence of the Declaration is that everyone is born equal and has human rights from birth, rights that are universal and indisputable. In this way, it laid the foundations for many human rights agreements,” Hugh Williamson, the director of the European and Central Asian division at Human Rights Watch, told Euronews. When the Declaration was ratified in Paris, the UN only had 58 membe…