The United Nations at 70 Working as one to deliver a healthy future for all

In December 1948, following years of war and violence of previously unimaginable proportions, the world came together in Paris, where the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under the driving force of the formidable Eleanor Roosevelt—widow of former President of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt—this Declaration complemented the relatively new Charter of the United Nations and guaranteed the rights of all individuals everywhere.