Join us and millions around the world as we recognize the 2020 Human Rights theme:  

Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights

This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination. 

December 10th is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity.

Things you can do today:

• Watch this short video of Human Rights Day 2018 as they marked the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Hear the voices of United Nations personnel as they recite some of the articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Watch youth reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Read illustration version of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Want to hear the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a different language?  Audio languages in 80+ languages.
• Take a few minutes to look at these website resources: Take Action!, 70 years of Progress on Human Rights

We want to bring attention to
National Observances & Commemorative Months
as well as UN International Days.
Check out our article about this!