Introduction
A year defined by women’s resistance KUMI NAIDOO, SECRETARY GENERAL
Today, the world honours the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This extraordinary document, adopted on 10 December 1948, brought the international community together in an unprecedented show of unity, setting out for the first time a bill of rights that would apply to all people, and in doing so struck at the heart of injustice across the globe.
Abortion rights activists gather as lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill legalizing abortion, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8 August 2018. Š Reuters/Marcos Brindicci.
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