The foundation for Human Rights Day was laid in the aftermath of World War II, a period marked by grave human rights abuses. As nations sought to rebuild and prevent such atrocities from recurring, the United Nations was established in 1945. One of its core objectives was to promote and protect human rights globally.
Addressing a Human Rights Day event here hosted by the National Human Rights Commission, he said that one outfall of globalisation is the concentration of wealth in transnational companies and a few countries.
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Human Rights Day 2021: By November 2021, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India had received 74,017 complaints. In November, the agency received 9,847 complaints.