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[news] 07.12.2008
Human Rights Day 2008
Hey out there!

The countdown to the international Human Rights Day on 10th of December is running!

PRAXIS will take part in the campaign - we will create our own movie, our own radio show and our own exhibition here in Serres, Greece! Pass by, and - if you are not near to Serres - visit:

http://www.knowyourrights2008.org/

Also check out the movie below and read more about Human Rights by clicking on "more...".

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Free and equal in dignity and rights the history of the Human Rights, which are moving thousand of thousands people around the globe, started back in man kinds past. Trying to find the exact moment of birth would be foolhardy, wouldnt it? But at least there are milestones of Human Rights development in history. And one of the very earliest took place back in the 18th century in a corner of the world which was called The New World and which started to be aware of its independence

Its the 4th of July 1776.
Under the leadership of Virginias delegated Thomas Jefferson the committee of the US-Declaration of Independence appears in front of the continental congress of British colonies in America and presents a document, written by Thomas Jefferson and inspired by the philosophy of the British philosopher John Locke, which declares: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - a document which is prevailing from this moment until now and for coming times.

Thirteen years later in Europe:
The french national assembly creates undeR.A.P.ocess of discussions and amendments the so called Declaration of Human- and Civilrights. It is the most important document of the great French Revolution and from then on a symbol of democracy and freedom.

Then, 150 years later
The whole world is shiv-shiv-shivering under the cruelty of Second World War. There is no continent, no country, no corner left on which the War has not any influence. It is one of the darkest and bloodiest moments of mankind and like the phoenix which appears out of ashes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is approved and announced by the General Assembly of the United States in Paris. It is the necessary answer to barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind [] as the Declaration says by itself

From there til now the Human Rights are the leading line of mankind to a world in which the unalienable rights of human beings are respected and defended. The Rights about which we are speaking are not only made by some men and women who gathered together to write them down. After all the Rights about which we are speaking are the result and therefore made by the experiences of thousands of people.They are made by the victims and the dead of for instance the american War of Independence, of the battles of the French Revolution and of the Second World War. It is like this and therefore we have to say it like this: People fought and died for these rights. There are destinies standing behind these thirty downwritten articles.

The aim of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is mentioned in itself: In the preamble of the Declaration it is said that it would be necessary to protect Human Rights by law, if men are not forced to rebel against oppression and tyranny and that the common understanding of Human Rights is of most importance for a world in which human beings are treating each other with respect in a friendly way.

But can a document help improve the world?
Improving the world against the rage of states and criminal groups which are armored with weapons? Can words beat guns? Can you fight armoured with a document which is composed of a couple of pages?

Of course you can not.
However the Human Rights although there are downwritten in a Declaration to give them a official meaning are more than just words. Actually the Human Rights are an idea. They are the idea of unalienable rights and values which are belonging to everyone and which are incontrovertible.

And the strength of ideas is that they can stick in peoples mind. They are able to affect and to move people and if the moved mass is big enough ideas can revolutionise and change the circumstances of a bad and not staisfactory status-quo. Ideas are the cradles of revolutions and revolutions are the roaring storms of changes. There is only one pre-condition: Enough people have to believe in the idea.

This is where you can enter the line of Human Rights-defenders which started with people like Thomas Jefferson or Eleanor Roosevelt, the US-presidents wife during Second World War who took a great part by expressing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights back in 1948.
If you believe in Human Rights and if you carry and spread out the idea of Human Rights, if you are ready and strong enough to stand for these ideas, then we will be able to make a change and to improve the world.

Take part at the Know Your Rights 2008 campaign!

Visit:

http://www.knowyourrights2008.org/

Justice and dignity for all of us!

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