Human Rights Day

75 Years of UDHR: Three Questions to Rawan Damen

"While history alone can determine the historic significance of an event, it is safe to say that the declaration before us may be destined to occupy an honorable place in the procession of positive landmarks in human history." - Charles Habib Malek  75 years ago to the day, on 10 December 1948, the 183rd session of the United Nations General ...

Honoring Gisèle Khoury on Human Rights Day

French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro and German Ambassador to Lebanon Kurt Georg Stöckl-Stillfried wrote simultaneously on their X (formerly Twitter) accounts that on Human Rights Day, “Our thoughts are with greatly missed journalist Gisèle Khoury to whom we are posthumously awarding the French—German Prize for Human Rights 2023, ...

#HumanRightsDay, US Embassy in Beirut Underlines Attacks on Journalists

On Human Rights Day and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, the US embassy in Beirut underlined the “inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.” In a message splashed on its X (formerly Twitter) account on Sunday, the embassy specifically highlighted ...