 December 10th is International Human Rights Day and if you are anything like
me, then it is a day when you feel like you are suppose to do something but
you are not quite sure what to do. As long as you agree with the idea that
everyone is entitled to "Human Rights," (defined below)
then I sure you would have no problem supporting the day, but what do you do?
The United Nations says that we should "recommit ourselves to the principles
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and let us rededicate ourselves
to wiping the scourge of torture from the face of the earth," (United
Nations: Human Rights Day 2005) but that
doesn't really tell me what I should do either.
After searching
the web, I found this great page with exactly
the
thing to help; a list of companies that have been accused of Human Rights
violations. Here is something you could do on this day, you could take this
list and do
with it what you, as a supporter of Human Rights, think you should. I
have one suggestion, you could email this page to your friends.
Global Exchange's 2005 List of "Most Wanted" Corporate
Human Rights Violators
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html
Human Rights is defined as: "the concept of human beings as having
universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise
other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. For many, the
concept of "human rights" is based in religious principles, or
else is otherwise directly related to them." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights)
United Nations: Human Rights Day 2005
http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2005/
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/english/events/day2004/hrd2004.htm
The United Nations and Human Rights
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/30.htm
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