The article deals with the general theoretical analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights influence on the inception and development of the modern system of the international documents on human rights. Namely, the article makes an indepth research of dialectic relations between provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and that of the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union. It has been found out, that value orientations, laid into basics of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, namely such as human dignity, interdependence, implicit character of fundamental human rights, direction of human right at creation of decent conditions of human being existence and development, constitute as well human rights protection principles laid into the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union. There has been highlighted that, on the one side, key ideas of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights form ideological basics of the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union, but on the other side, norms of the mentioned Charter provide development of the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus safeguarding concretization of the human rights and freedoms content, and creating more effective preconditions of their legal protection

Keywords: human rights, human dignity ,social progress ,freedom, equality, solidarity