Horrific acts that were committed during World War II helped lead to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights being issued.
Context
People who were influential in the development of the UDHR consist of Eleanor Rosevelt (U.S), Dr. Pen-chun Chang (China), Dr. Charles Malik (Lebanon), William Hodgson (Australia), Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile), Rene Cassin (France), Alexandre Bogomolov (USSR), Charles Duke (United Kingdom), John P. Humphrey (Canada). While the United Nations is wholly responsible for the UDHR, these nation state representatives were the ones to draft it.
Elanor Roosevelt (United Nations)
Pen-chun Chang (United Nations)
Dr. Charles Malik (United Nations)
William Hodgson (United Nations)
Hernan Santa Cruz (United Nations)
Rene Cassin (United Nations)
)Alexandre Bogomolov (United Nations)
Charles Duke (United Nations)
John P. Humphrey (United Nations)
Horrific acts that were commited during WWII (Spendelow)
The Geneva convention was missing important rights for citizens of all nations and had loopholes that needed to be fixed pertaining to prisoners of war. This led to the belief that a new document could be drafted to protect the rights of all global citizens.
The Geneva Convention document (BOURBAKI)
Paris is where the declaration was drafted, but participation occurred all around the world.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations)
The Palais de Challot (Paris je t'aime - Tourist office)
Before the document was created a lot of people didn’t have the right to a “standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances way out of his control.”
All the rights that were stated in the Geneva Convention were key factors that led to the UDHR. The issues that arose from these laws or policies from the Geneva convention caused the world to take a closer look at what legal or documented rights every citizen has.