Human rights day "Listening exercise"

When do we celebrate human rights?

Human Rights Day is one of the most important events on the United Nations calendar. It (1) [blank_start]____[blank_end] place on the 10th of December every year. It was on this day in 1948 that the U.N. created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Only 48 (2) [blank_start]____[blank_end] initially agreed to the Declaration. Of course, the (3[blank_start]) ____[blank_end] majority of countries accept it today. The High Commissioner for Human Rights described the importance of this day: "On Human Rights Day, it is my (4) ____ that we will all act on our collective responsibility to uphold the rights (5) ____ in the Universal Declaration. We can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document when its principles are fully (6) ____ everywhere, for everyone." The focus of the day is at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. There are (7) ____ international conferences, meetings, cultural events and exhibitions all (8) ____ with human rights issues. There is a different theme each year on Human Rights Day. It is sad that we still need this day. It (9) ____ seems we need it more as the decades (10) ____. There are still too many countries that do not respect (11) ____ the most basic of rights, including the right to life. As globalization makes the world smaller, problems are getting bigger. There is still so much work to be done to guarantee the right to freedom (12) ____ thought, to practice one’s own religion, and the right to education.