Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[MeLisa Turcott Strongheart]

We are getting ready for the 2014-2015 school year, so I was reviewing some of the literature I have stored up to use in our curriculum.  And came across information on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  I haven't quite figured out how to use this with the kids directly, but thought a blog post was in order.   Such an interesting and powerful document.  In the wake of abducted girls, and public executions I thought this was particularly poignant to review.

You can find the full document here.

“Human rights are what reason requires and conscience demands. They are us and we are them. Human rights are rights that any person has as a human being. We are all human beings; we are all deserving of human rights. One cannot be true without the other.” - Kofi Annan, Secretary-general of the United Nations

"In 1950, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, students at the UN International Nursery School in New York viewed a poster of the historic document.   After adopting it on December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly had called upon all Member States to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."  (UN Photo)" --- from UN website