Universal Declaration of Human Rights - XVth Anniversary - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt 10.12.1963

The posts and Telegraphs Department issued a special stamp on 10.12.1963 to commemorate the XVth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The stamp caries a portrait of the late Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, an ardent champion of Human Rights, playing a Charkha - The Indian spinning wheel - during her visit to India. The Charkha also symbolises the struggle waged by another great champion of Human Rights - Mahatma Gandhi - for the emancipation of his own country.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. The full text is published by the United Nations on its website.
The Declaration consists of thirty articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions, and other laws. The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols. In 1966, the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights. In 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of international law.