On December 10, 1948, 48 nations in the UN General Assembly adopted a remarkable document that is as relevant today as it was then: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). View USCIRF's Human Rights Day op-ed here .

This week on December 10, 2013 USCIRF Commissioner Zuhdi Jasser  testified before a House Foreign Affairs joint subcommittee hearing  on human rights abuses in Egypt. Read the testimony on human rights abuses in Egypt here .

Find out more about the current status human rights, particularly religious freedom, around the world in USCIRF’s 2013 annual report .