The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday December 10th, 2022 – Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document, which proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Available in more than 500 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt, World Citizen by Rene Wadlow
It was Eleanor Roosevelt who helped to craft and then championed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights whose anniversary we celebrate on 10 December. She was appointed the US representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights and was then chosen as its chairperson. Originally, her selection was a reflection of respect and gratitude toward her husband Franklin who had been the US leader during the Second World War and who wanted to avoid a US refusal of a world institution as had been the case with the League of Nations after World War I.
However, Eleanor was much more than the widow of FDR. She had always been an ‘internationalist’ concerned with the establishment of machinery that would ensure a lasting peace. In 1939 she had read Clarence Streit’s Union Now and had the author dine at the White House to explain his ideas of a federal union among democratic countries. She accepted to serve as a delegate to the first UN General Assembly held in London “largely because my husband laid the foundations for the organization through which we all hope to build world peace.”
She worked closely at the first UN General Assembly with Adlai Stevenson, a member of the early World Citizen Association founded in 1939. Stevenson headed the US delegation for preparing the General Assembly and the Commissions. There were only 18 women from 11 different countries at this first UN meeting in London, but at least, a permanent commission on the status of women was created.
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Things you need to know about stardust #poem by Abigail George
“Open the door and you will find a kingdom
there. There are things that you need to
know about me. I have a conversation
inside my head about how some people
should not be parents but they are. But
they are. They fight in front of their children.”
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Ephemera #76 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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