[hr-education] UDHR most universal document

Dear friends and colleagues,

I think that it is a nice piece of news. Just publicized through the OHCHR 
website.

Elena


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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the most universal document
	
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has been awarded the
Guinness World Record for having collected, translated and disseminated
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into more than 300 languages and
dialects: from Abkhaz to Zulu. The Universal Declaration is thus the
document most translated indeed, the most "universal" in the world. In the
words of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson: "This
project bears a special symbolism. It immediately brings to us a sense of
the world's diversity; it is a rich tapestry with so many different
languages and peoples. But, at the same time, it shows that all of us, in
our different forms of expression, can speak the "common language of
humanity", the language of human rights, which is enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

This project, developed in the framework of the United Nations Decade for
Human Rights Education (1995-2004), provides an example of what global
partnership for human rights is about. It was made possible thanks to the
cooperative efforts by many partners within and outside the United Nations
system: OHCHR and its field presences; the UN Department of Public
Information (DPI) and many of its Information Centres and Services (UNICs
and UNISs) around the world; the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU); United Nations Development Programme and its field presences
(UNDP); UNESCO with some of its National Commissions and Regional Offices;
various Governments and their Permanent Missions to the United Nations;
selected universities and linguistic institutes; numerous international,
regional and local non governmental organizations; and the Government of
the Republic of San Marino, who generously sponsored the final phase of
this project. Most of the linguistic versions of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights are now available online through the Office's website
(http://www.unhchr.ch).



Elena Ippoliti
OHCHR
United Nations
Palais des Nations
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 9179163
fax: + 41 22 9179014
email: eippoliti.hchr@unog.ch



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