Seven decades after the promulgation of the universal Declaration of human rights are the content of the world is under attack. Reasons to celebrate there are still. A look at current developments.
Supporters and followers of the murdered Menschentlerin Marielle Franco demonstrate in March in Rio de Janeiro
“All human beings are free and equal in Dignity and Rights born” – a simple sentence that would change the world. With the on 10. December 1948 in Paris, proclaimed UN-Resolution 217 agreed by the world community for the first time on the basic for all the people of existing rights. The universal Declaration of human rights is not a binding contract. Nevertheless, according to the words of the UN human rights Commissioner Raad al-Hussein Are helped “countless people to gain more freedom and justice”.
At the same time human rights abuses according to the UN “is still in sad regularity”. In 2017, there have been “attacks on an enormous scale on which human rights are underlying values, namely, the Dignity and equality of all people,” writes Salil Shetty, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, in the current report of the organization. The NGO Human Rights Watch observed that many democracies, including the United States, in the Wake of the “internal political dispute to the populist Agenda of” less willing to promote human rights abroad.
A healer of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya in a makeshift mosque in a refugee camp in Bangladesh
What is the values of the Convention on human rights? Where is it-where the rear steps? We will answer on the example of three people are right the most important questions.
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