May 15^th is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day.

 

It is a call by Bloggers Unite “challenging bloggers around the world to help elevate human rights by drawing attention to the challenges and successes of human rights issues.”  The range of topics you can blog on is as vast as the human rights abuse around the world.  Amnesty International suggests the illegal detentions in Guantanamo Bay, human rights abuse in China and the crisis in Darfur.  

 

John, Jasmine and Jackfruity have joined the challenge.

 

I’m certainly on board, but I haven’t yet decided on what to write about.  Perhaps I’ll blog about how 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted and proclaimed by the UN General Assembly those rights are still not guaranteed.  Indeed in this world of increasing inequity, the idea of a collective assurance of freedom and equality in dignity and rights may be just that – an idea – and little more.

 

Article 2 of the Universal Declaration says,

 

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

 

 

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

 

 

Join the challenge and unite for our right to humanity.