While the UN published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the IGO lagged behind the development of Latin American states, which had adopted a human rights declaration one decade before.

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The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man was adopted by the Ninth International Conference of American States in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1948, a few months before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, making it the first international human rights instrument of a general nature, predating the Universal Declaration.

While the UN Published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights