Human Rights Day

Today is Human Rights Day: The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948.

This year’s Human Rights Day slogan is: Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now.

"This year’s theme is a call to acknowledge the importance and relevance of human rights in our everyday lives. We have an opportunity to change perceptions by speaking up against hate speech, correcting misinformation and countering disinformation. This is the time to mobilize action to reinvigorate a global movement for human rights."

Agenda:

1. Journal queries

2. Choose next steps

3. Take the human rights pledge

1. Journal queries:

This week of advent my theme is "Striving to find unity and peace with all the people of the world".

What areas of human rights work are calling to me now?
What are possible next steps?

2. Choose next steps:

Here is what I am committed to do next--

1. Learn more about environmental rights as human rights; introduce education and action on human rights into my Quaker earth care efforts.  

 

2. Learn more about the parts of the world that are most affected by climate change, and the human implications (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Haiti, Kenya...)

3. Join zoom city council meetings, especially when they involve climate, sustainability, and human rights issues.

 

3. Take the human rights pledge:
Your commitment to human rights:
I will respect your rights regardless of who you are. I will uphold your rights even when I disagree with you.

When anyone's human rights are denied, everyone's rights are undermined, so I will STAND UP.

I will raise my voice. I will take action. I will use my rights to stand up for your rights.

TAKE THE PLEDGE