2017年12月11日 · Next year it will be 70 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration is a ground-breaking agreement affirming the rights of individual citizens, including the right to freedom from discrimination, the right to education, the right to a free and fair world and many more.

2015年12月11日 · Those freedoms were the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Over 70 years later, on Human Rights Day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon renewed the commitment to those freedoms in a modern and global context. On 6 January 1941, the United States was not yet involved in World War 2.

2016年12月9日 · Every year on 10 December, we celebrate International Human Rights Day. It’s an opportunity to commemorate those activists whose work has made the world a better place. It’s an opportunity to commemorate those activists whose work has made the world a better place.

2022年1月31日 · Some argue COVID-19 vaccine mandates are human rights violations. Not really , say experts on actual human rights violations. In fact, some point to the more fundamental right of everyone to be protected from COVID-19 – particularly as variants continue to disproportionately impact the unvaccinated.

2016年5月23日 · The freedom to vote was ranked as the most important human right in five of the eight countries. Image: World Economic Forum The United States values free speech as the most important human right, with the right to vote coming in third.

2020年3月23日 · Women globally still lack freedom of choice regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights. Image: Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform We need to forge a coalition of those who are already champions and those that still need to be convinced by enabling genuine dialogue – using our interconnected, online environment to unite ...

2020年8月7日 · For decades, human rights have been protected by the International Bill of Human Rights, a set of five human rights treaties developed by the United Nations to advance fundamental freedoms. Two of these treaties, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and The Covenants on Human Rights (1966) , shaped a system of universal values and ...

It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” “The dire poverty of some is not an affliction which impacts only on those who are deprived . It reverberates across the globe and ineluctably impacts negatively on the whole of humanity, including those who live in conditions of comfort and plenty.”

The rights to online privacy and freedom of expression, for example, are really extensions of the equal and inalienable rights laid out in the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. According to the UN, disconnecting people from the internet violates these rights and goes against international law.

2018年10月25日 · In fact, we can see such attitudes repeated across a whole range of civil liberty issues from freedom of information to freedom of the press, from freedom of speech to freedom from surveillance. When faced with significant threats, people will actually sacrifice a good deal of liberty – the liberty of others but eventually their own, too ...