The phrase "a universal declaration of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal statement or document that expresses principles or intentions applicable to all people or nations.
Example: "The United Nations adopted a universal declaration of human rights to promote and protect the fundamental rights of all individuals."
Alternatives: "a global statement of" or "an international proclamation of".
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.
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.
The most radical meeting of the day could be the Bolivian government's attempt to put a "Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights" into the final agreement of world leaders.
Besides the scuffle over the representative from the gay group, trouble immediately erupted when the official delegation began its central task of working out a universal "declaration of commitment" on the fight against AIDS.
It produced a People's Agreement, which called for very sharp reduction in emissions, and a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.
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.
Born as the first world war came to a close and departing from public life as the world marks half-a-century of the universal declaration of human rights, I have reached that part of the long walk when the opportunity is granted, as it should be to all men and women, to retire to some rest and tranquillity in the village of my birth.
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".
