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Explain the historical circumstances that led to the writing of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1 — All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

Article 3 — Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

Article 4 — No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5 — No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 9 — No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.

Article 13 — 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14 — Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

Article 15 — Everyone has the right to a nationality.

Article 18 — Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

Article 19 — Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

Article 20 — Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Article 21 — Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

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