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​United Nations Association of Atlanta (UNA-Atlanta) is dedicated to educating, inspiring, and mobilizing Americans to support the principles and vital work of the United Nations and its agencies. Our nationwide network within UNA-USA is committed to strengthening the United Nations system, promoting constructive United States leadership in that system, and achieving the goals set forth in the UN Charter. UNA-USA is a program of the United Nations Foundation. UNA-USA and its partner organization, the Better World Campaign, comprise the largest network of UN advocates in the world.

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Know Your Rights

From the United Nations:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles). 
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Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States served as the first Chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights and was instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this picture, Mrs. Roosevelt holds a Declaration of Human Rights poster in Spanish. Photo Credit: UN Photo Digital Asset Management System, 1949.
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