Posted on 12/11/2006 1:39:39 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
GENEVA - Everyone has the right to an education.
That's one of the 30 articles in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted Dec. 10, 1948.
And it was also something that West Street Elementary second- and third-graders learned about Friday when the Geneva Human Rights Commission presented its Human Rights 4Kidz program.
The program was the GHRC's way of celebrating Human Rights Day 2006.
Executive Director Karen Baer told students about the basic ideas of human rights and some of the articles in the universal declaration. She used an umbrella to explain who the declaration covers and why it's needed.
“Why do we need an umbrella?” Baer asked the students.
Students said it offered with protection from snow, rain and sun.
“So it's about being protected,” Baer said, referring to the declaration. “This umbrella is pretty important.”
Students later made cut-outs of their hands with an article from the declaration glued to them. The hands were then glued to an umbrella to show that the declaration protects everyone.
Baer also asked students if they knew what human rights were.
“The first amendment,” one student replied.
“Human rights are rights we enjoy simply because we are human,” Baer explained. “Just the fact that you were born, you have human rights.”
Students were then split into two groups. One made the cut-outs and the other participated in a word search of human rights vocabulary words.
Afterward, they reassembled to participate in the telling of a Native American legend about colors quarreling. Students portrayed the different colors while Baer read why each color thought it was more important than the others.
Other students acted as the rain, which told the colors they were all made for a special purpose.
Students then joined hands as Baer continued to read.
“From now on, when it rains, each of you will stretch across the sky in a great bow of color as a reminder that you can all live in peace,” she said.
Third-grade teacher Janalee Weaver said her class has done other activities in diversity and that Friday's program was a good extension of what students have been learning.
“I like the way [Baer] introduced it with the umbrella,” she said. “I think they learned something from that.”
Special education teacher Angela Brown, who teaches with Weaver, agreed, calling the program “very vital.”
Lynch said it is important to teach students at an early age before they absorb negative societal perspectives. The commission also provides educational outreach to older students as well as adults, she said.
Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide on Dec. 10 to commemorate the United Nations' declaration. This year marks Geneva's fifth celebration of Human Rights Day.
What has the UN done to educate every child in say Darfur for example?
Well, evidently they don't have a right to a GOOD education.
"Lynch said it is important to teach students at an early age before they absorb negative societal perspectives."
Wow. That is actually stating that it's important to brainwash them early for fear that they learn the truth elsewhere.
Baer also asked students if they knew what human rights were.“The first amendment,” one student replied.
The first amendment isn't a human right. It is an enumeration of an inalienable human right. One of many restrictions on the power of government identified in our Constitution. The right to bear arms (in defense of country from all threats) is also there.
Unfortunately former president Bill Clinton does not believe in free speech and in a discussion of the "12 cartoons" said that the cartoonists responsible should be prosecuted (for committing blasphemy against Islam, which is what the Imam allege. Blasphemy is NOT a crime in this country.).
...and bottom of the (local) heap academically: http://tinyurl.com/yh8amu
Teaching them to be aware of different sexual partnerships is an attempt to teach them immorality before churches get around to discussing hedonistic sexual pleasure and debasement.
Heather may not have 2 mommies in this lesson plan but the concept is the same ("it is important to teach students at an early age before they absorb negative societal perspectives.").
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries 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."
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
You have the right to cable tv, you have the right to sing the blues.
That's one of the 30 articles in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted Dec. 10, 1948. tooo bad none of those friggin RATS bothered to tell the little darlings that AMERICA had that all ready in our Constitution and this was a wake up call for the REST OF THE BASSACKWARDS WORLD to get with the program...
Geneva is like always trying to out do the City of Evil or something.
The left enjoys lecturing from their faux Romans Chapter 8, but hate to have anyone connect it to past and present realities.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights required colonialist support for U.N. passage. However, this doctrine contradicted their hegemony causing willing or reluctant departure from colonies and emergence of over 100 countries.
People unwrapped the gift of independence expecting this new norm of freedom, only to re-discover pre-history norms of crushing civil wars, murderous political intrigues and pandemics of disease and starvation. The ruling elites from ascendant tribes/chiefdoms again strove for totalitarian power. Colonialism distracted attention from these perpetual clashes, because a few countries evolving from tribes/chiefdoms (read duchies, principalities, etc.) used rapidly developing industrial and governmental infrastructure to secure extraordinary worldwide dominance.
The chiefdom oligarchies of current rulers use ideologies such as democracy, socialism, communism, and more recently the Bolivarian movement and Islamic fundamentalism to validate and perpetuate totalitarianism. These despots suffer no moral discomfort, as do former colonialists, but easily recruit philosophical and religious lawyers who backwards-engineer elegant to absurd expositions into programs for popular subservience.
The vitality of totalitarian rule was recently displayed at the United Nations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a single sentence used a statement of Muslim faith to spiritualize submission to his despotic aims. Hugo Chavez received acclamation for characterizing our President as Satan, while at home he adroitly dismantles the system that elected him to power and promises economic prosperity by directing attention to his charismatic image as a new Bolivar. The General Assembly coldly acknowledged our President when asserting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights receives meaning from progress to representative government.
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