The Importance Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

The twentieth century is when the past notions of human rights developed fully into a researched document argued and defined by world thinkers as the Universal Declaration of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human rights was not developed out of nothing, it was heralded by idealistic people who saw the world of the early twentieth century, and wanted to define the rights that should be universal to the world. The rights that they wrote had already existed in a multitude of world governments constitutions or laws; the United Nations coalition only defined them in a universal sense. The world in the early twentieth century was an exciting time because it is when the world was becoming more connected than ever before. This was the period when the idea of internationalism and …show more content…
Many nations placed high hopes on the League of Nations, only to be disappointed by the reality of the power moves by the world governments, and disregard of smaller states. The council that wrote the Universal Declaration of human rights noticed all of this tension, and past disputes around them, and took them into account when writing the declaration. The people who wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were optimistic about the document, signaling how it would be world changing in its effect on countries. The Declaration of Human Rights was a product of its time, a short period of optimism surrounded by conflicts before and after the Declaration. The conflicts did have an impact on the conference, and the twentieth century internationalism of the world did wind up influencing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It would be difficult to believe that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could have been written in any other period before the early twentieth century. While the French Declaration of the rights of man existed, it was not a universal decree that had both