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United Nation Far away, on America’s Pacific Coast, a conference was meeting to create the United Nations. Shortly after Roosevelt’s death, and slightly before the first nuclear bomb test, the world’s leaders argued about the structure of the organization they were building. They debated the “fundamental human rights” to which they dedicated themselves to. Rights included social progress for better standards of living and equal rights for men and women. Another word was added to this list--justice. The Charter of the United Nations was signed on June 26, 1945. It states that the main objective of the new organization is “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights.” In 1946, the U.N. established the Commission on Human Rights the principal policy-making body within the U.N. system. On December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This act went through by Resolution 217A (III). There were forty-eight votes for the Declaration and none against it. However, there were eight countries that stayed away from this. These countries included White Russia, Czechoslovakia, rights, human, world, declaration, nations, universal, united, freedoms, right, principles, people, peace, social, first, wide, un, each, dignity, states, part, fundamental, freedom, around, achieve, the, war, standards, respected, progress, never, hard, great, gives, expresses, everyone