Human Rights Day 2011

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United Nations Human Rights Office Celebrating Human Rights Day - 10 December  calls for the use of social media to demand and defend our rights.

On December 10th, the world observes United Nations' Human Rights Day.  The date was chosen to commemorate the adoption, by the UN General Assembly in 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the first global enunciation of human rights.

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