Today is a cause for celebration, but also for remembrance and activism. The basic rights our society enjoys as a whole nowadays are a product of many years of struggles, defeats and victories. From women’s rights to ethnical rights, humankind has had to fight long and hard against all forms of hate.
Human Rights Day is celebrated every year on 10 December. On that very day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a ground-breaking document that proclaims the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Did you know?
Available in more than 500 languages, the UDHR is the most translated document in the world!
https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day
Linguists have played a major role in making the need for universal human rights understood by communities all over the world. Test your knowledge and skills on such an important topic by interpreting the speeches in the quiz below!
- What is the average sum of euros spent on military expenses every year worldwide? Speech 28805 FR
- In Spain, how many surrogacies were performed in 2004 as opposed to the number performed in 2015? Speech 28248 ES
- What was Eurostat’s estimation of the gender pay gap in 2016 in Portugal? Speech 28104 PT
- How many children whose mothers were serving a prison sentence were living in jail in Italy in 2018? Speech 27747 IT
- When was Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who produced a film about violence against women in Islam, shot to death? Speech 25286 EN
Happy practice!
Your Speech Repository Team