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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
Virginia Declaration of Rights
drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can also be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civic Rights".
Declaration of the Rights of the Child
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, sometimes known as the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, is an international document promoting child rights, drafted by Eglantyne Jebb and adopted by the League of Nations in 1924, and adopted in an extended form by the United Nations in 1959.
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