Human Rights EducationIn tracing the origins of the modern human rights movement, historians typically point to two periods: the 1940s, in which decade the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was ratified by the United Nations General Assembly; and the 1970s, during which numerous human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), most notably Amnesty International and Mdecins Sans Frontires, came into existence. It was also in the 1970s, Sarita Cargas observes,