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Swiss Initiative to Commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Protecting Dignity: An Agenda for Human Rights

The Swiss Initiative aims to make a meaningful contribution by taking the protection of human rights forward through reflection and proposals for action.

The Swiss Government decided to mark this event by launching an Agenda for Human Rights authored by a Panel of Eminent Persons alongside a research agenda to be conducted by selected research teams.

The project is sponsored and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria actively support the project.

The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights is responsible for the coordination and organisation of the Initiative.

Extract from the Preamble of the UDHR

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…