... the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights." In 1946, the U.N. established the Commission on Human Rights the principal policy-making body within the U.N. system. On December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This act went through by Resolution 217A (III). There were ... complaints of human rights violations. People around the world experience everything from torture, rape, and corrupt judicial systems to bonded labor, hunger, bad health or lack of access to health servi...

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