The United Nations’ first major legislative achievement came on this day in 1948 with the General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, later each article committed to these stone pillars in Nuremberg, Straรe der Menschenrechte.
The annual commemoration coincides with signatory and founding member state Sweden’s Nobeldagen, the date established in 1901 on the fifth anniversary of the death of the benefactor Alfred Nobel and first award ceremony (see
previously) took place. All laureates, other than the recipient (including
organisations) of the Peace Prize, are banqueted at Stockholm City Hall—with the exception, usually on the same day, presented in
Oslo.
