Despite setbacks, UN ushered in 65 years of progress on human rights... The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted 65 years ago paved the way for decades of progress. The picture of human rights today is hardly as encouraging. But changing norms takes time and doesn't follow a linear path.

Indian Dalits, members of the outcast community once known as untouchables, applaud a speaker at a sit-in protest on Human Rights Day near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, Dec. 10. Tsering Topgyal/AP

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"Those who authored the UDHR 65 years ago knew that they would not live to see the world transformed to their full liking, but they had faith that it would gravitate in the direction they envisioned. It is impossible to compare the world of 1948 to today and not be convinced that indeed it has." William F. Schulz, president of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee & former executive director of Amnesty International USA.

 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY December 10, 2013