Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Difference between revisions

All 193 member states of the United Nations have ratified at least one of the nine binding treaties influenced by the Declaration, with the vast majority ratifying four or more.<ref name=":0" /> While there is a wide consensus that the declaration itself is non-binding and not part of [[customary international law]], there is also a consensus in most countries that many of its provisions are bindingpart and have passed intoof [[customary social law]],<ref>Henry J Steiner and Philip Alston, [[International Human Rights]] in Context: Law, Politics, Morals, (2nd ed), [[Oxford University Press]], Oxford, 2000.</ref><ref>{{ill|Hurst Hannum|eu}}, [https://cdn2.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/04/16-Hannum.pdf The universal declaration of human rights in National and International Law], p. 145</ref> although courts in some nations have been more restrictive on its legal effect.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Posner|first=Eric|date=4 December 2014|title=The case against human rights |author-link=Eric Posner|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/dec/04/-sp-case-against-human-rights|access-date=22 January 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=":1">''Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain'', 542 U.S. 692, 734 (2004).</ref> Nevertheless, the UDHR has influenced legal, political, and social developments on both the global and national levels, with its significance partly evidenced by its 530 translations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OHCHR {{!}} Universal Declaration of Human Rights Main|url=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/UDHRIndex.aspx|website=www.ohchr.org}}</ref>