Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights has been developed after four years of research by the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
The plan aims to improve human rights protection in Scotland.
The commission's evidence suggests basic rights are not consistently promoted, respected or protected in people's every day lives.
The Scottish government, the NHS, Amnesty International and various other organisations including trade unions and local authorities were involved in creating the action plan.
Areas of concern when drawing up the document included: care, disability rights, health, criminal justice and business.
Commitments have been made by the bodies behind the plan to integrate human rights more closely into their work.
Commission chair Professor Alan Miller said: "Today, International Human Rights Day, Scotland is taking a big step towards building a country where everyone can live a life of human dignity.
"The Scottish Parliament has human rights at its heart, it created the Scottish Human Rights Commission and today Scotland's first National Action Plan for Human Rights is launched as the next step on Scotland's journey to progressively realise internationally agreed human rights for the benefit of everyone."
Although this is the first human rights action plan in the UK, they do exist in other countries, such as Sweden, Spain, New Zealand and Australia.
Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said: "Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights is a bold venture which aims to bring human rights home in people's everyday life.
"It signals a strong commitment to internationally agreed human rights standards which is particularly significant in the current context of economic crisis and austerity."
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "The plan is an important milestone in our journey to create a Scotland which acts as a beacon of progress internationally.
"We will continue to work with the Scottish Human Rights Commission to make rights a reality for all in Scotland, in keeping with the importance this Government has long attached to human dignity, equality and fairness and the pursuit of social justice."

It happened at about 20:00 BST at Rafters bar and restaurant in Northland Road area on Wednesday.
He was treated for a hand injury at Altnagelvin Hospital and discharged a short time later.  It is understood the wedding involved members of the travelling community.
A man was later arrested by Irish police in County Donegal.
SDLP councillor John Boyle said a shotgun was used.
"A weapon was discharged, I believe that weapon was a shotgun," he said.
"At around 8.30pm, police told me, they received a report of an incident relating to some type of altercation at the Rafters bar and restaurant on the Northland Road, Ballymagroarty area," said Mr Boyle.
"It's always very worrying when you hear about weapons being produced whether it be at a wedding, on the street or in someone's home, there is always the very real potential for death or serious injury."

Robert Huey was speaking after a suspected case of "mad cow disease" was identified in the Republic of Ireland.
Further tests are being carried out, but if confirmed, it would be the first case of BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in Ireland since 2013.
Mr Huey said despite the development, it was business as usual for the Northern Ireland beef industry.
"The controls we have in place are robust and ensure that beef from the north is safe to eat," he said.
"It's very much just business as usual. We have our controls, we have our controls in meat plants, we have our controls in meat and bone meal, we have our surveillance and those are robust.
"They're the same controls that are protecting public health and animal health across Europe and I'm confident that those are sufficient to ensure that, if instances do happen, that they are sporadic and only a one-off."
The animal involved in the incident in the Republic of Ireland is a five-year-old cow from a dairy farm in County Louth.
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) said the cow was not presented for slaughter and did not enter the food chain.
Mr Huey said that showed that the existing safeguards were effective.
"It does prove that the surveillance that's in place across Europe actually works," he said.
"We've always suspected that there might be an occasional sporadic outbreak in an individual animal and that's what we seem to have here."
A human rights action plan has been launched in Scotland, in a move described as a "UK first".
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