The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday 27th, 2023
H.G. Wells and Human Rights by Rene Wadlow
2023 will see a year-long effort leading to 10 December 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The effort carries the title “Dignity, Freedom and Justice for All”. Thus, it is useful to look at some of the intellectual preparations both within the League of Nations and among individual thinkers for the Universal Declaration. One of the most widely read was that of Herbert George Wells “Declaration of the Rights and Duties of the World Citizen” which is found in his book “Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Organization” published in 1942. The Declaration of the Rights and Duties of the World Citizen had been translated into 10 languages and sent to 300 editors of newspapers in 48 countries.
H.G. Wells from the 1930s on was concerned with the ways the world should be organized with a world organization stronger than the League of Nations. Such a world organization should be backed up and urged on by a strong body of public opinion linked together world-wide by the unifying bond of a common code of human rights and duties.
At the end of the First World War, H.G. Wells was a strong advocate of the League of Nations, but as time went on, he became aware of its weaknesses. He wrote in 1939 ” The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind… Does this League of Nations contain within it the gem of any permanent federation of human effort?
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The Wave #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Her body
Moved like a wave,
Her soul like an ocean;
Surging over the
Summer of my youth.”
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Tang & Ram #55 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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