International Federation for Human Rights

The Fédération internationale des droits de l' Homme ligues of ( FIDH ) is an umbrella organization of various human rights organizations based in Paris. The FIDH was established in 1922 by the French League for Human Rights with the participation of the German League for Human Rights and other like-minded organizations.

1948, two representatives of FIDH, René Cassin and Joseph Paul Boncour, contributed to the formulation of the " Universal Declaration of Human Rights" of the United Nations.

The FIDH is a federation of 164 human rights organizations (as of July 2010 ) and is represented in more than one hundred countries on all continents.

Principle

Each National League, which is affiliated to the International Federation, therefore committed to the principles that are recorded in the French declarations of Human Rights of 1789 and 1793 as well as in the Universal Declaration of 1948. Each National League makes it his mission, for the application of these principles in their own country and for their strict implementation in public life and in the state and home entertainment apparatus to worry.