UNITED NATIONS

Human Rights Day celebrates an idea—the very simple idea, expressed in six concise pages, that to be human is to have rights.

Protecting human rights is the UN’s most important and most vital job.

It is hard to ignore the example of the brave men and women whose faith proved stronger than physical duress.

The fact is that racism is an ugly undercurrent in our culture—too easy to ignore unless you are one of its victims.