Discussion
Internationally which document for the first time adopted the words ‘human rights’ ?
Answer: C
The first international document to use the words 'human rights' was the UN Charter.
The Charter of the United Nations, signed at San Francisco in June 1945, reaffirms in its preamble 'faith in fundamental human rights' and lists promoting respect for human rights among the purposes of the UN in Article 1(3). It was the first international treaty to use the expression.
The Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) did not refer to human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights came later, in 1948, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1966, both building on the Charter's commitment.
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