The Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly sitting in Paris, France, on December 10, 1948. The formation of the United Nations three years earlier had been dictated by the devastation caused by the Second World War; a war started by Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.
In coming to the defence of Poland, England and France took on Germany’s demented Adolf Hitler and a war that was to claim at least 60 million lives was born.