The phrase "a universal declaration" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal statement or announcement that applies universally or is intended to be accepted by all.
Example: "The United Nations adopted a universal declaration on human rights to promote and protect the rights of all individuals worldwide."
Alternatives: "a global statement" or "an all-encompassing declaration".
Yet the same nations adopted a universal declaration of human rights.
Qutb wrote, "This religion is really a universal declaration of the freedom of man from servitude to other men and from servitude to his own desires.
In one room, visitors can join a "parliament" of raked scaffolding seating to discuss a Universal Declaration of Urban Rights and add their ideas to a blackboard.
But a memo is not a universal declaration of legality: it doesn't make torture legal, and it can't make it right.
It produced a People's Agreement, which called for very sharp reduction in emissions, and a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.
As humans have sought to move beyond simple reciprocity to consider abstract issues of fairness, or to grope toward something like a universal declaration of human rights, established religions have played a surprisingly small part.
Some of us believe a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fit for the 21st century, written in a participatory, direct and democratic way, needs to be written.
Maybe we need a new universal declaration.
Two Secretaries-General, Dag Hammarskjöld and Kofi Annan, were each awarded the prize (in 1961 and 2001, respectively), as were Ralph Bunche (1950), a UN negotiator, René Cassin (1968), a contributor to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1945), the latter for his role in the organization's founding.
The report also quotes a clause from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which the United States is a signatory: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy".
Political and social statements are made during some songs, including "Sunday Bloody Sunday"—during which the word "coexista" is spelled out on-screen through various religious symbols and "Miss Sarajevo", during which an excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is read aloud by a narrator.
