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Happy Human Rights Day
Today marks 70 years since the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the wake of the Second World War, it set out the fundamental rights to which everyone is entitled – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion.
You can draw a straight line from the Human Rights Act (HRA) to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So it’s apt that they are both celebrating anniversaries this year. In November we celebrated 20 years of the HRA. In two decades it has supported thousands of individuals in their fight for justice
The Declaration has been translated into over 500 languages and has inspired the creation of 60 human rights instruments that make up human rights law today. They do everything from protecting against torture to guaranteeing the rights of people with disabilities.
There will be many here at JPP who didn't know that there was any such thing as a Declaration of Human Rights.
Now that they DO know there will be some that want to trample it.
What decrees that they have no right to trample it is basic human decency. There's no specific law which states that human decency is mandatory- but EVERY law alludes to it by default. That's what civilization is- people allowing themselves to be subject to the rule of law.
So here's to those who believe in it and here's to those who uphold it on our behalf. That's OUR behalf- not the behalf of tyrants, dictators or mobsters who make their own laws to suit themselves at our peril. We are decent- they are not. Human nature really is as simple as that.
Happy Human Rights Day.
Today marks 70 years since the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the wake of the Second World War, it set out the fundamental rights to which everyone is entitled – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion.
You can draw a straight line from the Human Rights Act (HRA) to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So it’s apt that they are both celebrating anniversaries this year. In November we celebrated 20 years of the HRA. In two decades it has supported thousands of individuals in their fight for justice
The Declaration has been translated into over 500 languages and has inspired the creation of 60 human rights instruments that make up human rights law today. They do everything from protecting against torture to guaranteeing the rights of people with disabilities.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.
Preamble
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
There will be many here at JPP who didn't know that there was any such thing as a Declaration of Human Rights.
Now that they DO know there will be some that want to trample it.
What decrees that they have no right to trample it is basic human decency. There's no specific law which states that human decency is mandatory- but EVERY law alludes to it by default. That's what civilization is- people allowing themselves to be subject to the rule of law.
So here's to those who believe in it and here's to those who uphold it on our behalf. That's OUR behalf- not the behalf of tyrants, dictators or mobsters who make their own laws to suit themselves at our peril. We are decent- they are not. Human nature really is as simple as that.
Happy Human Rights Day.