International Declaration of Human Rights passed the U.N. General Assembly December 10, 1948

I’m posting this to my blog a few days before International Human Rights Day, December 10.  This day celebrates when the U.N. General Assembly passed the International Declaration on Human Rights on December 10, 1948.  It’s good to re-read the International Declaration on Human Rights every few years.

Information and the text are at this link:

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

A .pdf with a simple, readable font is at this link:

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf

Thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt who had worked skillfully to create and pass this landmark document.

Bonus questions: 

(1) How many of these internationally recognized human rights has the U.S. (and/or states and local jurisdictions) been routinely violating?

(2) How many of these did the Trump regime violate even further?

(3) What could YOU do to help the general public — and all levels of government — respect human rights?

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org