December 10 International Human Rights Day

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December in Afghanistan and around the world. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day. Afghanistan celebrates Human Rights Day whilst human rights are being violated massively throughout the country. Officials at Ministry of Justice say that though Afghanistan has much achievement in human rights in the past one and half decades, still lots of Afghans do not have access to their primary rights. Meanwhile Lal Gul Lal, chairman of the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization (AHRO), said that Afghanistan is one of those countries which got UN membership early in 1948, but due to continuation of war, social injustice, non-implementation of reward and punishment system, bureaucracy, are all the main factors hindering implementation of human rights in the country. The Universal Declaration of Human Right was adopted by General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. The first article of human rights states that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood.