World Human Rights Day

World Human Rights Day is observed on Dec 10, 2011, throughout the world.

The day is observed by the international community every year on the same date. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This year, on Human Rights Day, Intolerance and Lack of Education was especially talked and focused over in Pakistan.International Commission for Human Rights, an NGO, held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on 10th Dec, in which the chairman demanded inclusion of Human Rights Course in curriculum so as to create awareness on the issue.