Azerbaijan Launches Campaign To Promote Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
Date
12/12/2022 5:22:58 AM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Fatima Hasanova read more By Fatima Hasanova
On December 9, Head of Mission at UNHCR Azerbaijan Guido Ambroso
said that Azerbaijan is launching an annual campaign dedicated to
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Azernews
reports.
Ambroso made the remark at an event in Baku designed to
commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UDHR's adoption.
He emphasized that this declaration is the most frequently
translated document.
'The declaration covers universal rights, which brings us closer
to a more equal and inclusive world,' Ambroso explained.
He also mentioned that this document provides an opportunity to
establish economic and cultural rights.
'Thanks to this declaration, the dignity of millions of people
was preserved and the foundations of a more just world were laid,'
he added.
For many years, Armenia committed an ethnic cleansing policy
towards Azerbaijanis. In 1948-1952, 150,000 Azerbaijanis were made
to leave their homes, according to the website of the State
Committee for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.
This was an integral part of the hostile policy of Armenia,
along with historical falsifications, distortions, changing of the
historical names of Azerbaijani lands, and transformation of
Armenia into a mono-ethnic state.
Besides, 250,000 Azerbaijanis were expelled from their native
lands and became refugees as a result of the latest ethnic
cleansing perpetrated against Azerbaijanis in the territory of
Armenia in 1988, as the Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan
emerged.
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