Human Rights Day 2011
http://www.celebratehumanrights.org/
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SATURDAY, December 10: UN: Human Rights Day
This year thousands of people decided the time had come to claim their rights. They took to the streets and demanded change. Many found their voices using the internet and instant messaging to inform, inspire and mobilize supporters to seek their basic human rights.
Social media helped activists organize peaceful protest movements in cities across the globe—in Tunis, in Cairo, in Madrid, in New York, and in cities and towns across the globe—at times in the face of violent repression.
It has been a year like no other for human rights. Human rights activism has never been more topical or more vital. And through the transforming power of social media, ordinary people have become human rights activists.
VIDEO 2011: An extraordinary year for human rights – 2011 has been an extraordinary year for human rights, UN Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay says in her message to mark Human Rights Day.
Human Rights Day is marked annually on 10 December, it commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Videos: The videos found here are available for use on Human Rights Day.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Day2011/Pages/Videos.aspx
Human rights belong equally to each of us and bind us together as a global community with the same ideals and values. As a global community we all share a day in common: Human Rights Day on 10 December, when we remember the creation 63 years ago of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On Human Rights Day 2011 we pay tribute to all human rights defenders and ask you to get involved in the global human rights movement.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights will host a global conversation on human rights through social media on Friday, 9 December at 9:30 A.M., New York time.
We want you to be part of it: join the conversation, send a question, watch it live. More details coming soon.
Join us on Facebook as we countdown to Human Rights Day with a „30 days and 30 rights“ discussion on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or follow us on Twitter #CelebrateRights.
Help us celebrate human rights!
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Day2011/Pages/HRD2011.aspx
International human rights law refers to the body of international law designed to promote and protect human rights at the international, regional and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law, rules of law derived from the consistent conduct of states acting out of the belief that the law required them to act that way. HERE
Watch LIVE tomorrow on UN Webcast @ 10:30am Geneva time. http://bit.ly/bjdKsc „Social Media and Human Rights“ Panel participants include acclaimed activists: Wael Abbas, Maite Azuela, Bassem Bouguerra, Ednah Karamagi, Meg Pickard and Salil Tripathi. Read on: http://bit.ly/vaWr6Y
Celebrating the birthday of human rights!
http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/12/human-rights-go-viral.html
During the event in New York, UN High Commissioner for human rights answered questions from multiple social media platforms. Through Skype, UN Messenger of Peace and writer Paulo Coelho, asked about the role of culture and art in protecting and promoting human rights. “Art and music,” stressed Pillay “can reach out to a wider audience and carry very powerful human rights messages.”
Happy Human Rights Day! uploaded by UNOHCHR on Dec 10, 2011:
Endless Poverty is a Human Rights Failure, December 7, 2011, By Thomas Pogge – Dr. Pogge is Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. He serves on Global Financial Integrity’s Advisory Board.
This Human Right Day, let us be mindful of the ways in which our emerging supranational institutional architecture can be reformed to ensure that the poorer half of humanity, too, can achieve at least a proportionate share of global economic growth.
Socioeconomic rights, such as that “to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care” (UDHR, Article 25), are currently, and by far, the most frequently unfulfilled human rights. Their widespread under fulfillment also plays a major role in explaining global deficits in civil and political human rights demanding democracy, due process, and the rule of law.
Extremely poor people — often physically and mentally stunted due to malnutrition in infancy, illiterate due to lack of schooling, and much preoccupied with their family’s survival — can cause little harm or benefit to the politicians and civil servants who rule them. Such officials therefore pay much less attention to the interests of the poor than to the interests of agents more capable of reciprocation, including foreign governments, companies, and tourists.
Read on Global Financial Integrity’s Blog:
http://www.financialtaskforce.org/endless-poverty-is-a-human-rights-failure
http://www.amnesty.org/en/economic-social-and-cultural-rights
http://degrowthpedia.org/index.php
http://www.facebook.com/FinancialTaskForce
http://www.facebook.com/United Nations Millennium Campaign
#video What is your wish? #CelebrateRights
http://twitter.com/unrightswire
http://www.youtube.com/user/UNOHCHR
http://www.facebook.com/unitednationshumanrights
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/environment/environ/index.htm
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