Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week, 2024

What Proclamation 2024-29460 says

Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 239 (Thursday, December 12, 2024) [Federal Register Volume 89, Number 239 (Thursday, December 12, 2024)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 100299-100300] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2024-29460] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 239 / Thursday, December 12, 2024 / Presidential Documents [[Page 100299]] Proclamation 10871 of December 9, 2024 Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week, 2024 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation On Human Rights Day and during Human Rights Week, we recommit to upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people. America was founded on an idea--that every person is created equal and deserves to be treated equally throughout their lives. And 76 years ago today, after the wreckage of 2 world wars and the Holocaust, the United States joined countries around the globe to enshrine this idea into a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We also helped establish the United Nations, upholding the inherent dignity of every person on the world stage and establishing a rules-based international order. Today, our country continues to stand with our partners and allies to defend human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world--from combatting threats to silence and intimidate human rights defenders like...

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