INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
DECEMBER 10
Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its formal inception dates from 1950, after the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V) inviting all States and interested organizations to adopt 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, as the main UN rights official, and her Office play a major role in coordinating efforts for the yearly observation of Human Rights Day.
Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human
rights Louise Arbour
Human
Rights Day, 10 December 2006 “Everyone has the right to a standard of
living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and
of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical
care and necessary social services, and the right to security
in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood,
old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond
his control.” - Human Rights and Poverty
Reduction: A Conceptual Framework (2004) What will you do for
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challenge in the world. Combating poverty, deprivation
and
exclusion is not a matter of charity, and it does not
depend
on how rich a country is.
By tackling poverty as a
matter of human rights obligation,
the world will have a better
chance of abolishing this
scourge in our lifetime...
Poverty
eradication is an achievable goal.
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