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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
12/10/2010
It’s Human Rights Day today.
A specific page in www.un.org explains that “The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major preoccupation for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization’s founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should never be allowed to recur.
“Respect for human rights and human dignity ‘is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,’ the General Assembly declared … in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, all States and interested organizations were invited by the General Assembly to observe 10 December as Human Rights Day (resolution 423(V)).
“The Day marks the anniversary of the Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Over the years, a whole network of human rights instruments and mechanisms has been developed to ensure the primacy of human rights and to confront human rights violations wherever they occur.”
I daresay — at the risk of sounding like nagbubuhat ako ng bangko — I’ve contributed somewhat to this day in various ways, in the past and in my much younger days helped political prisoners, participated in actions to ensure that certain abuses don’t happen again or get any worse, marched in the streets against graft and corruption and electoral fraud, and uphold freedom of expression, so on and so forth.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101210com4.html
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