Human Rights Declaration Brought to Massachusetts Legislature

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December 10th marked the 59th Anniversay of the United Nation's document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document and its thirty tenants were put together by former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt and is the world's most accepted guideline on human rights between nations.

Youth for Human Rights International (www.youthforhumanrights.org) is dedicated to making the thirty tenants of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a reality. Their website has each if the thirty individual rights beautifully videoed in public service announcement format. These videos are played on television, sporting events, in movie theatres and many other locations throughout the world to bring up the awareness of the rights of mankind. Please enjoy watching these yourself.

We felt that the Declaration should certainly be understood and used by legislators as they create the laws that often determine the rights of people. On December 10th we took the planks of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with a short letter, to all the members of the Massachusetts legislature and to Governor Deval Patrick's office.

It's a small step in creating solutions to the vast amount of civil rights violations and crimes against humanity that occur in this world, but hopefully, if we all keep actively taking steps in the right direction, we will get to a better place.