On December 10, every year in the world and in our country, Human Rights Day is celebrated. In the year when the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus hit the world, we must not forget that the human rights of each of us are inalienable and indivisible, that we are all born equal and free regardless of citizenship, residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, color skin, religion, language, or any other status.

Among the most important human rights, we single out: the right to life, freedom and security of the person, the right to education, employment, work, medical care, social security, freedom of opinion, belief, religion.

The United Nations General Assembly declared December 10, 1950, Human Rights Day to draw the attention of the "peoples of the world" to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed two years earlier, as the first comprehensive human rights instrument. For the first time in the history of mankind, the Declaration proclaims the common standards of human rights that should be achieved by all nations and all nations of the world.

With its adoption, the Declaration was not legally binding but more part of customary international law until the UN International Conference on Human Rights in 1968, when it was decided that the Declaration was an obligation for all members of the international community.

As such, the Declaration is the basis for all further legally binding UN agreements on human rights, especially on children's, minority, cultural, economic, social and political rights.

In the Republic of Serbia, human rights are guaranteed by the Constitution, generally accepted rules of international law, ratified international treaties and laws. The state and society should guarantee and protect the rights of every individual, every day, and not just on important dates when we celebrate them.

Since its founding, the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization has been implementing projects aimed at protecting and promoting the human rights of all those individuals and groups of people to whom it has been violated or prevented from its full implementation.