Human rights 365
On 10 December every year, Human Rights Day commemorates the date on
which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, proclaiming its principles as the “common
standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.”
This year’s slogan, Human Rights 365, encompasses
the idea that every day is Human Rights Day. It celebrates the
fundamental proposition in the Universal Declaration that each one of
us, everywhere, at all times is entitled to the full range of human
rights, that human rights belong equally to each of us and bind us
together as a global community with the same ideals and values.
In 2014 the message from Human Rights 365
is unequivocal: the UN Human Rights Office stands by its mandate and
stands with the millions of men and women globally, who risk their all
for human rights.
Make your voice heard now via our campaign on Vine: explain why Human Rights matter 365.
It is as important now, as it has been at any time in recent years
to declare your membership of and support for the international human
rights community.
On any scale, 2014 will be remembered as a year of daunting human
rights challenges. In places where only recently there had been progress
in achieving human rights, there has now been retreat. Nonetheless,
there have been, significant, ongoing, global advances in achieving our
human rights.
Support for the Declaration continues to grow: this year the
Convention against Torture reached its 30th year, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child is 25. In 2015, the very first of the
international agreements giving effect to the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of all
Forms of Racial Discrimination marks its half century.
As a global community we all share a day when those milestones can
be acknowledged and we can take stock of the challenges ahead: Human
Rights Day on 10 December. It offers all of us the opportunity to
declare our commitment to the principles and standards developed over
the more than six decades since the the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights was adopted.
Human Rights 365 on Vine
In six seconds tell us why human rights matter 365 and post it on
Vine. Tag your Vine with #rights365 and we will collect them all in
our
Storify and tell the story on 10 December.
Human Rights 365 on social media
We want all of you to mobilize in support of our right to enjoy every day as a human rights day. Join our
Thunderclap: support human rights 365.
