Unite for Rights

Happy Human Rights Day 2018!
Its time to Unite for our Rights!

Today marks the 70th anniversary since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The historic document was adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.

Everyone is allowed at the table

Sanctuary Restaurants Sanctuary restaurants have a zero tolerance policy for sexism, racism, and xenophobia.

This is a great idea
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Home - Sanctuary Restaurants Creating safe spaces in restaurants

Here's to the multi-tasker Mother
http://mashable.com/2017/03/17/bbc-dad-spoof-working-mum-parody/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

'BBC dad' parody imagines how a mom would handle the situation She even defuses a bomb!

Using Law to combat ISIS ... two brave women!
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amal-clooney-takes-isis-clear-case-genocide-yazidis-n649126?cid=sm_fb

'Clear case of genocide': Amal Clooney takes on ISIS for the Yazidi The international human rights lawyer spoke exclusively to NBC News about her fight for the persecuted people.

Some may think the Brexit vote means people don't want to UNITE and see the world as one. This might be the thoughts of some, but I hope this isn't a trend that will ripple through Europe. We (and countries) are always more powerful standing together than isolated all alone. Our global bill of rights offers UNITY. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/world/europe/brexit-aftershocks-more-rifts-in-europe-and-in-britain-too.html

‘Brexit’ Aftershocks: More Rifts in Europe, and in Britain, Too The British pound and stock prices plummeted, there was immediate pressure for another referendum on Scottish independence, and David Cameron said he would resign by October.

Hooray for the 50th anniversary of this accomplishment! Let's now take the next step and make it not just monitoring, but law.

Why is 2016 an important anniversary for human rights? Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute's Programme for the Study of International Governance.

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Here in the Hood River Gorge, we are challenging Nestle - as they want to bottle our water and sell it. We protest their position that Human beings do not have a right to water. It is a right -- along with the right to shelter. See Art. 12 of version 10

http://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/nestle_water_privatization_push

"Human beings don't have a right to water." Nestlé backed up that statement with this ruthless move at the World Water Forum.