“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela It is they that promote development that is sustainable peace that is secure and lives of dignity.” – Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein “When the fundamental principles of human rights are not protected, the center of our institution no longer holds. In honor of Human Rights Day, here are 11 of our favorite quotes: This campaign will highlight the value of freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Together with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these two covenants form the International Bill of Human Rights.

This year, December 10 also marks the launch of a year-long campaign for the 50 th anniversary of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Survival in fact is about the connections between things in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter).To commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2018, join the UN’s #StandUp4HumanRights campaign to promote and defend universal human rights.ĭecember 10 is Human Rights Day, a day commemorating the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the importance of securing human rights for all people. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind.

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