The Declaration was born in the aftermath of the World War II. With the end of the anti-Fascist war, the power of the masses fighting against discrimination and inequality was strengthened.
Child survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp stand near the fence just before being liberated by the Red Army.
PAP/ITAR-TASS, 1945.
The "Contest to Cut Down 100 People" embodies the brutality of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Shinju Sato, 12 December 1937.
However, only a few articles of the United Nations Charter referred to human rights, and therefore it was deemed necessary to create a universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals so as to fulfill the Charter's provisions on human rights.