December 10th is Human Rights Day

Check out the United Nations page on Human Rights Day and celebrate that on this day in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The focus this year is on poverty. “Poverty is a cause and a product of human rights violations.”Read on to learn more…

The video is from the intro of the 1998 Amnesty International Paris Concert DVD celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UDHR.

“Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human rights 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.”

Louise Arbour
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Learn more from: The United Nations Human Rights Day website and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights website.