- from the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (*) was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10th, 1948.
(*) Included in the Portuguese law (Diário da República nº 57/78) on March 9th, 1978.
[Portuguese post on Jan 10th, 2008]
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