What do human rights mean to you??

[Martha]

60 years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) & 60 years of 'Nakba'
Tell your story in the 1001 Actions for Dialogue!
http://www.israelpalestineudhr.org/blog

We need your help! Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

In 1948, in a global effort to ensure that the inhumanity of the Second World War would never happen again, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations. The UDHR is the first comprehensive agreement among nations as to the specific rights and freedoms of all human beings. It is the closest humankind has ever come to agreeing a common global understanding of human rights and obligations.

Amnesty International’s group on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in Ireland are creating an internet based forum for dialogue on human rights in the region. Serious human rights abuses continue to occur in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The undercurrent of violence, abuses of fundamental human rights and disregard for international law have become firmly entrenched and relentless. Civilians in both Israel and the Occupied Territories have borne the brunt of the confrontations. Prospects for a just and durable resolution of the conflict can only come through human rights. This project hopes to enhance dialogue and awareness of human rights.
To create this dialogue we need your help and your experience!
Do you have personal stories and photos or thoughts on Israel and the Palestinian Territories and can you connect this story to an article from the UDHR and your experience of that human rights?

We are collecting photos, testimonies, letters and stories from Israelis and Palestinians willing to share their experience, and from all others that live or work in Israel or the Palestinian territories, or who simply have an interest in human rights. These stories and photos will be published on our website and will be open to anyone to comment on.

We are hoping to collect 1,948 submissions as we are celebrating the UDHR.

The Declaration has thirty articles and we are inviting you to pick an article/s and send us your photo, testimony, letter or story relating to that article from the UDHR and use the ‘Submit Your Story’ page to upload your story and images.
Could you please forward this information to your friends so they can also participate in this dialogue!

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This action is part of the regional campaign “1001 Actions for Dialogue” launched by the Anna Lindh Foundation the Dialogue between Cultures for the enhancement of peaceful coexistence and intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The action was generated with the financial support of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Amnesty International reserves the right to only publish pieces that reflect an article of the UDHR and images that adhere to the Dochas Code of Conduct, www.dochas.ie . Please ensure you have copyright permission from the people in y...

[Daniela]

I am thankful for this sharing and I have the hope that a lot of people can testify and to be participates in the appeal of the site.

I believe that this is a very important project because the human rights - of every man - is always respected.

Thanks
Daniela

[Alessandro]

Thanks Martha for the link

Alessandro

[hanem5]

Human Rights mean different things to different people based on the country or even continent they live on. There is NO COUNTRY where Human Rights exist fully today. Not in the USA, not in Europe and not anywhere else. I am just having a chuckle that you would for one second believe that Human Rights have anything to do with the Palestinians or the Naqba which was invented only in 1998 and did not exist in the minds of any human including the Palestinians.

But as an aside, why is it that you do not feel the abrogation of Human Rights of Muslim women, or the abrogation of freedom of Religion in Saudi Arabia, and what about Darfur. The Arab world followed by Africa are the worst Human Rights offenders and yet I see nothing on any peace sites to complain.

[Martha]

Dear Hanem,
After WWII the international community worked hard on finding out how to avoid another catastrophe like that. What they came up with is the "GOLDEN RULE" (Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself) - The UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS was not invented for the Palestinians but it applies to them as much as it does to Saudi women or Israeli settlers (no less -no more).

Please read what each country that wants to be accepted in the UN-Family has to commit to ....
it is the basis for peace - only people tend to be selective and forget that without the right to life a person cannot enjoy the other rights:)....

Understanding that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” (Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948) is a principle still valid today in search for urgently needed solutions to the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict that many believe to be the root-cause of all the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. To find our way through the obscured and seemingly intractable 60 year-old conflict, we need a clear compass such as the UN-Declaration of Human Rights.

Recognizing the important link between human rights and peace-making could be the torch that shows us a way out of this conflict that has repercussions throughout the world.

May this light show you your way as well....



hanem5 said:

Human Rights mean different things to different people based on the country or even continent they live on. There is NO COUNTRY where Human Rights exist fully today. Not in the USA, not in Europe and not anywhere else. I am just having a chuckle that you would for one second believe that Human Rights have anything to do with the Palestinians or the Naqba which was invented only in 1998 and did not exist in the minds of any human including the Palestinians.

But as an aside, why is it that you do not feel the abrogation of Human Rights of Muslim women, or the abrogation of freedom of Religion in Saudi Arabia, and what about Darfur. The Arab world followed by Africa are the worst Human Rights offenders and yet I see nothing on any peace sites to complain.

[Daniela]

The human rights touch all the human beings, without exclusion and without favors for the one or for the other. Under this light every " cause": palestinese or of israele, Arab or Christian (they are also there of the Christian victims in some countries of Africa), Buddhist or hindù it is seen only as accepted by a process of political or religious absolutism, any country or to be able has and has ever had the right to sacrifice some human lives for his own purposes, this before the declaration enacted for the guardianship of the human rights. Any war is a justification for the thirst of power, of authority or revenge. Nobody has the right to put under to the feet the dignity of human beings and animals because only a process of peace and mutual respect is true peace.
We remember that we are expressing some simple ideas, without weapons and with the respect for the person that writes and it has feelings and ideas.
A smile
Daniela

[hanem5]

Martha.
It is very simplistic and naive to blame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to all the problems of the Middle East and to link Human Rights with the "naqba".

I would submit to you that there are no Human Rights anywhere in the Muslim world including Jordan and that Israel as the sole democracy in that part of the world has more Human Rights (including the Arabs therein) than anywhere else.

"Do unto others" as a slogan is very commandable but is not practiced on any level anywhere in the world that I know off and I live in Canada. My rights to sent my children to Hebrew school are non existent while Catholics have that right.

Native Indians live on squalid reservations in abject poverty and if they leave lose their rights as an Indian.

There is massive poverty in Africa and yet the United Nations has a branch that deals only with Human rights in "Palestine"



Martha said:

Dear Hanem,
After WWII the international community worked hard on finding out how to avoid another catastrophe like that. What they came up with is the "GOLDEN RULE" (Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself) - The UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS was not invented for the Palestinians but it applies to them as much as it does to Saudi women or Israeli settlers (no less -no more). Please read what each country that wants to be accepted in the UN-Family has to commit to ....
it is the basis for peace - only people tend to be selective and forget that without the right to life a person cannot enjoy the other rights:)....

Understanding that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” (Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948) is a principle still valid today in search for urgently needed solutions to the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict that many believe to be the root-cause of all the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. To find our way through the obscured and seemingly intractable 60 year-old conflict, we need a clear compass such as the UN-Declaration of Human Rights.

Recognizing the important link between human rights and peace-making could be the torch that shows us a way out of this conflict that has repercussions throughout the world.

May this light show you your way as well....



hanem5 said:

Human Rights mean different things to different people based on the country or even continent they live on. There is NO COUNTRY where Human Rights exist fully today. Not in the USA, not in Europe and not anywhere else. I am just having a chuckle that you would for one second believe that Human Rights have anything to do with the Palestinians or the Naqba which was invented only in 1998 and did not exist in the minds of any human including the Palestinians.

But as an aside, why is it that you do not feel the abrogation of Human Rights of Muslim women, or the abrogation of freedom of Religion in Saudi Arabia, and what about Darfur. The Arab world followed by Africa are the worst Human Rights offenders and yet I see nothing on any peace sites to complain.

[Daniela]

hanem5 said:

Martha.
It is very simplistic and naive to blame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to all the problems of the Middle East and to link Human Rights with the "naqba".

I would submit to you that there are no Human Rights anywhere in the Muslim world including Jordan and that Israel as the sole democracy in that part of the world has more Human Rights (including the Arabs therein) than anywhere else.

"Do unto others" as a slogan is very commandable but is not practiced on any level anywhere in the world that I know off and I live in Canada. My rights to sent my children to Hebrew school are non existent while Catholics have that right.

Native Indians live on squalid reservations in abject poverty and if they leave lose their rights as an Indian.

There is massive poverty in Africa and yet the United Nations has a branch that deals only with Human rights in "Palestine"



Martha said:

Dear Hanem,
After WWII the international community worked hard on finding out how to avoid another catastrophe like that. What they came up with is the "GOLDEN RULE" (Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself) - The UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS was not invented for the Palestinians but it applies to them as much as it does to Saudi women or Israeli settlers (no less -no more). Please read what each country that wants to be accepted in the UN-Family has to commit to ....
it is the basis for peace - only people tend to be selective and forget that without the right to life a person cannot enjoy the other rights:)....

Understanding that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world” (Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948) is a principle still valid today in search for urgently needed solutions to the complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict that many believe to be the root-cause of all the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. To find our way through the obscured and seemingly intractable 60 year-old conflict, we need a clear compass such as the UN-Declaration of Human Rights.

Recognizing the important link between human rights and peace-making could be the torch that shows us a way out of this conflict that has repercussions throughout the world.

May this light show you your way as well....



hanem5 said:

Human Rights mean different things to different people based on the country or even continent they live on. There is NO COUNTRY where Human Rights exist fully today. Not in the USA, not in Europe and not anywhere else. I am just having a chuckle that you would for one second believe that Human Rights have anything to do with the Palestinians or the Naqba which was invented only in 1998 and did not exist in the minds of any human including the Palestinians.

But as an aside, why is it that you do not feel the abrogation of Human Rights of Muslim women, or the abrogation of freedom of Religion in Saudi Arabia, and what about Darfur. The Arab world followed by Africa are the worst Human Rights offenders and yet I see nothing on any peace sites to complain.

Hanem5 you clearly see the things with a widened point of view, you also have your one man show experience and you see and alive things that have made you understand as some rights not recognized make to feel as different people " and foreigners." It is correct to open the window on you orientate different, for this it is important to understand that the wounds of a stamped on right, those that you know how to be you, are the same of other people that they have seen stamped on his own rights.

I believe that you think that United Nations is not a true guarantee, that it is not an opportunity of defense of own rights.

Is on October 10 the day for the Rights of the man, but the rights of every man are respected indeed? What is it possible to do because is not more violence and silence on what happens?
What is it possible to do for being of help to whom suffers?
Our words perhaps serve to few but to know, to tell what the eyes see and what the heart suffers is not to stay in silence.

Thanks
Daniela

[hanem5]

DANIELLA.

What is the greatest catastrophe as far as Human Rights is concerned TODAY? I would venture to say Darfur. I am prepared not only to debate but organize demos and write ins and support by NGO's for these forgotten souls. I have taken part in demos for the Tibetans who are being oppressed on a daily basis and their language and homeland vanishing by the minute. A true genocide without the killings.

That is what my interest is as well as the North American Indian who has been murdered, his land and language and children stolen.

I am interested in these poor souls as they have nowhere to go and nowhere to turn .Unlike the Palestinian Arabs who are ethnically and religiously linked to 22 States.

This to me is the abuse of Human Rights and not the contrived "naqba" and Palestinian "nationhood"

My interest is a better world for Kurds, Gypsies, Corsicans, Tibetans, N.A. Indians, The Mayas of South America and a number of truly aboriginals and oppressed peoples.

[Daniela]

hanem5 said:

DANIELLA.

What is the greatest catastrophe as far as Human Rights is concerned TODAY? I would venture to say Darfur. I am prepared not only to debate but organize demos and write ins and support by NGO's for these forgotten souls. I have taken part in demos for the Tibetans who are being oppressed on a daily basis and their language and homeland vanishing by the minute. A true genocide without the killings.

That is what my interest is as well as the North American Indian who has been murdered, his land and language and children stolen.

I am interested in these poor souls as they have nowhere to go and nowhere to turn .Unlike the Palestinian Arabs who are ethnically and religiously linked to 22 States.

This to me is the abuse of Human Rights and not the contrived "naqba" and Palestinian "nationhood"

My interest is a better world for Kurds, Gypsies, Corsicans, Tibetans, N.A. Indians, The Mayas of South America and a number of truly aboriginals and oppressed peoples.

To know how to open the heart to the compassion is to see in the eyes of the people that you has lost everything,what it doesn't have voice anymore... his own suffering.

To take care of the wounds of a people that it suffers whatever people that has inside the soul the same one, sore is to understand that our pain is small thing close to that of a whole world
what it has thousand hurt by to take care of.

Thanks

Daniela

[chris macrae]

I see a great opportunity to unite around the millennium goals quickly reprised in this video actually produced from the UK Prime Minister's office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5QlLoIc5s
Both US candidates for president have pledged to return global systems to be in line with these goals instead of Wall's Streets non-vision

The next year may be the best chance we have to see how many ways the greatest challenges in the world could unite us, and these goals are actually a do-able start if we network trust around them

chris
http://goodnewsglobe.blogspot.com

[Daniela]

chris macrae said:

I see a great opportunity to unite around the millennium goals quickly reprised in this video actually produced from the UK Prime Minister's office
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP5QlLoIc5s
Both US candidates for president have pledged to return global systems to be in line with these goals instead of Wall's Streets non-vision

The next year may be the best chance we have to see how many ways the greatest challenges in the world could unite us, and these goals are actually a do-able start if we network trust around them

chris
http://goodnewsglobe.blogspot.com

I put here the video to have a clear attention:





Dear Chris you believe possible all this?
Because it is never happened before it took us care
of the hunger and of the illness, of the famines and of the rights of these people?

What was it priority because forgot it of this people?

I am a person that hopes, but it is said that it could not be hoped
on illusions.

What idea do you have around this?

A smile
Daniela

[hanem5]

Daniella:

It is possible to stop hunger and despair, if we focus on what is happening in Africa and South America and Asia and if we pressure our governments to help , not the petty dictators, but the people themselves. Israel has agricultural projects in all these places and it could be joined by the EU and the rich Arab States.

Not handout but help to get themselves on their feet. I have been donating to various Canadian institutions that do just that and one of my clients has set up a charitable organization to build schools and housing for lepers in Kenya. I hope to travel there this summer to see the progress. I am Jewish and he is a born again Christian. That is a co-operative effort.

That is what I would suggest that this group endeavour to accomplish. Set up a trust fund so that money and clothing and textbooks can be given to the most needy, wherever they are.That would show out humanity and our commitment to human rights.

I would be prepared to use my client as a conduit for that. He is using a sizeable amount of his own money for that purpose.

I would welcome anyone that is prepared to do that as soon as the project gets off the ground.