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`December 10, 1963 is the 15th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The conception of human rights germed already at the times of the ancient Greece and developed ever since by a groupe of philosopher believed in the law of nature in medieval and modern ages. In England, France and the United States, the florescence of the thought was attendant with a great sacrifice of life. Now the thought is shared by every country in the world and the most of them provide the sacred rights in their constitution. Nevertheless, admitted is the fact that there are opposing forces everywhere in the world which offend the rights, and the rights are apt to be violated in various forms. The declaration of human rights adopted and proclaimed by the UN is indicative of a solid assurance and universal cooperation toward a complete preservation of the dignity of human being which man should possess as human being. The basic concept of the declaration was initiated by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then President of the U.S. who advocated the four points of freedom had been developed and incorporated into the Atlantic Charter and the Joint Declaration of the Allied Forces. The declaration was further developed by the Commission on human rights which was formed at the third General Assembly of UN and later it developed to the provisions of human rights of the Charter of United Nations. In order to act in concert with the world wide undertaking toward the human rights and to help enhance the morality of the human rights, the Ministry issues the commemorative stamps depecting the portrait of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt whose tremendous contributions to the sacred undertaking should long be remembered, in 3 Won stamp and the torch which simbolizes the human rights and the globe in background in 4 Won stamp, respectively.`