Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and this week we're going back to Voices 2018.

70 years ago, in December 1958, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris.

The document had been drafted by representatives

with different legal and cultural backgrounds

from all over the world, setting out for the first time

the fundamental human rights to be universally protected.

Seventy years on, it is time to take stock

of the achievements in human rights

and to reaffirm the Declaration's

core assertions and to set out the agenda for its future relevance and impact. At Voices 2018,

we were honored to welcome one of the key guardians of this milestone document, Kate Gilmore,

the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, who considered

today's human rights report card, reflecting on promises met and those not kept, speaking to

the role of dissent in troubled times, and the need to stand up for freedom, equality, and

dignity for the road ahead.

Here's Kate Gilmore at Voices 2018.

Thank you for the privilege of joining you.

You movers and shakers, you bare-knuckle troublemakers, you trailblazers.

Thank you for breaking down daily boundaries

between role and workplace position to reach out further.

Thank you for allowing this connection,

for not allowing sector, become border, become war, become darkness.

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