The concept of human rights was indeed built into United Nations with institutions such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Active diplomacy by Latin American countries was instrumental to the process of promoting these ideas and drafting the relevant agreements . As a result of this pressure , more human rights language was adopted at the 1945 San Francisco Conference to create the UN Charter . Revelations about the Holocaust , followed by the Nuremberg Trials , also had a major influence on the movement , particularly among Jewish and Christian lobbying groups . Some NGO 's represented the UN charter as a victory for the human rights movement , while other activists argued that it paid lipservice to human rights while basically serving the interests of the great powers
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