70 years ago on 4 November 1950 the United Kingdom along with Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Norway signed the European Convention on Human Rights in Italy. Drafted by Nuremberg trial prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, a British MP and lawyer, and former French resistance fighter Pierre-Henri Teitgen, it was the first instrument to give effect to certain of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948 and make them binding.