Human Rights Day observances around the world

German artist Dafne B touches her artwork “The Barrier in the Head” near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. The artist aims to express the subject of inner blockades on the occasion of Human Rights Day.

(Michael Kappeler / AFP/Getty Images)

Dec. 10, 2015 7:29 AM PT

Human Rights Day is observed every Dec. 10. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Human Rights Day observances around the world

A Kashmiri woman whose relative has gone missing holds a placard at a protest marking International Human Rights Day in Srinagar, India.

(Dar Yasin / Associated Press)

Activists of the Awami Ittihad party get into a scuffle with Indian policemen as they are stopped during a protest to mark International Human Rights Day in Srinagar, India.

(Dar Yasin / Associated Press)

Participants ride bicycles to celebrate the International Human Rights Day in Mandalay, Myanmar.

(Hkun Lat / Associated Press)

Members of the Center For Human Rights Education Pakistan hold earthen lamps during a demonstration to mark Human Rights Day in Lahore, Pakistan.

(K.M. Chaudary / Associated Press)

A group of Nepalese Human Rights Activists are detained by police as they shout slogans against the border blockade by India during a protest rally in front of the Indian Embassy to mark the 67th anniversary of the International Human Rights Day.

(NARENDRA SHRESTHA / EPA)