DECLARING THE TENTH DAY OF DECEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

WHEREAS, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December
10, 1948; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the United
Nations invites all States to adopt the tenth day of December of every year as
Human Rights Day.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, de hereby declare
the tenth day of December of every year as Human Rights Day.

I call upon all our citizens, all national,
provincial, city and municipal officials, all teachers in public and private
schools, and all other elements in this country, public or private, local or
foreign, to publicize the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
to cause it to be disseminated, displayed and expounded.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of
October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary

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