United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_217
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217
United Nations resolution ratified and adopted in 1948
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 217A was adopted on December 10, 1948, to ratify the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The resolution was adopted by a majority of 48 countries from among the 58 members of the United Nations at that time; however 8 abstained and the Republic of Honduras and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen did not vote.