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On December 10, the National Union of the Homeless (NUH), along with a number of local and regional organizations working to organize poor people in the United States, marked the seventy-seventh anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—with an online hearing, on what is now known as Human Rights Day. The hearing’s purpose, organizers say, was to indict signers of the thirty-article document for failing to uphold its promise.