The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was passed in the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948 and has both a preamble as well as thirty separate attendant Articles, to which this document is purported to apply to "all members of the human family," and to which further we read in the Articles statements such as the following: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," (Article 5), and "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy…" (Article 12) and the list goes on and on and on. While each one of the Articles is sensible, thoughtful, constructive, caring, coherent, universal, democratic, and makes one proud to be a human being having such noble rights, there is also a fundamental disconnect with this Declaration, which has been In existence for nearly seventy years, and that is, there isn't a government on earth, a nation on earth, or any people or human beings on earth, that actually live in a world in which these Articles pledged on the behalf of all humansare upheld whatsoever.
In fact, since this Human Rights Declaration, it has been pretty much business as usual for all nations in their repression of basic human rights to which every single nation has fallen short of adhering to these declared human rights. It would be one thing, if progress had actually been made, is being made, and continues to be made, but in reality, the world is the same world that it always has been, to which, the strong and those that are in power, oppress, abuse, exploit, and conquer those that are weak and without power. As for actual human rights, virtually every country follows the same template, some, of course much more diabolical than others, some much more considerate than others, which is that the government, as a matter of course, will give its citizens the human rights that they deem to be of value and/or of necessity, and no more.
The problem with governments, laws, rights, and so forth, is that the more power and "justice" that is ceded to this government, legitimate or illegitimate, the less freedom, free will, liberty, life, and pursuit of happiness the subject citizen will have. The reason that this is so is because government is force, and when force meets human rights, force almost always prevails against those rights. In point of fact, the bigger and more intrusive that governments are, the less freedom and free will that people will have.
While it's nice to have a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and a pleasure to contemplate about how wonderful it would be to live in a world such as this, that world doesn't exist, isn't close to existing, and this particular declaration does nothing to bring any of this about. This whole talk about basic human rights that we hear or read about so often is really nonsensical, as you don't need to hear "talking heads" state that we all have the right to free education, free healthcare, full employment, and so forth, when in actuality none of this free stuff is free to begin with, as all that we have, comes from effort, knowledge, unity, and throughput.
Those that truly believe in real Human Rights need to only know and live these two basic truths: give proper respect to our Creator, and to treat our fellow man as a brother and as our equal in the eyes of our Supreme Giver of life, liberty, free will, and the pursuit of happiness.