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The UDHR: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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The draft committee (they are the authors) where the amount of people that created the UDHR. The UDHR also known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is rights that everyone follows without them being the real. The UDHR was created on the 10th of December 1948. The place the that the UDHR was created was in France, Paris, Palais De Chaillot. The UDHR was created to keep peace. The UDHR was also made to protect rights and dignity of every person no matter race.

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