Chronicle of Current Events
In honor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations declared 1968 as the "International Year for Human Rights". In April Natalya Gorbanevskaya compiled the first issue of the "Chronicle of Current Events". Its cover (dated 30 April 1968) carried the title: "The International Year for Human Rights in the Soviet Union" and, like every subsequent issue of the "Chronicle", quoted the text of Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Natural law
Because of the intersection between natural law and natural rights, natural law has been claimed or attributed as a key component in the "United States Declaration of Independence" (1776), the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (1789) of France, the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948) of the United Nations General Assembly, as well as the "European Convention on Human Rights" (1953) of the European Union.