As part of this year’s campaign for Human Rights Day – Our Everyday Essentials – the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) invited members of the public to write in what matters to them most.
With the help of artificial intelligence, UN News has analysed the most popular themes based on the responses received.
With answers ranging from “love”, to “education for all”, the results provide a fascinating illustration of how the historic Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) translates into real life.
Not lost in translation
Young children read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a playground in 1950. (Archive)
Human Rights Day is observed annually on 10 December. On that date in 1948, the declaration was signed, laying out for the first time in 30 sections – or articles – a framework on fundamental human rights including protection from slavery and equality before the law.
It remains the most translated document in the world, available in 577 languages.
OHCHR asked: What essentials in your daily life feel most meaningful to you and that you wish everyone could have? Here is how this fundamental international covenant corresponds to the everyday, lived experience of some of the respondents.
Some responses have been translated into English from the original language.
