30 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1978 - 6 Shilling

Intellectual approaches to individual rights over the state go back to the philosophers of antiquity and were further developed in Christian thought and the Enlightenment. Their first concrete and legally binding expression was found in eighteenth-century documents, such as the Virginia Bill of Rights (1776), which emphasizes human equality and freedom. The time after the Second World War brought, above all, a further development on an international level. The United Nations Economic and Social Council created the "Human Rights Commission" in 1946. It first met in 1947 and established the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". It was decided and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. It consists of 30 articles that refer to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual. The key follow-up documents to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966. Since 1958, the European Court of Human Rights has existed. The organization "Amnesty International", founded in 1961, has made a name for itself worldwide in the realization of human rights.