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Today, as some of you may know, is celebrated worldwide as “Human Rights Day,” where politicians and leaders of all stripes and ideologies climb onto their bully pulpits and loudly endorse the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was first adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. One suspects, however, that the majority of these politicians have not read this Declaration—or at the very least, that this Declaration would undoubtedly fail miserably if voted upon today in the Canadian House of Commons. If you think I’m engaging in hyperbole, let’s take a look at the opening statement of...

SPOKANE, Wash. - They made a list, but they should have checked it twice. In a December newsletter to the families of elementary school students, Spokane Public Schools' list of "important dates" didn't include Christmas. Hanukkah, Human Rights Day, winter break, the Islamic holy day Eid al-Adha, first day of winter and Kwanzaa all made the list. But no Christmas. "It was absolutely an error of omission," district spokeswoman Terren Roloff said. "In our efforts to be inclusive, we missed the obvious." The omission drew complaints from some parents that in an age of political correctness, Christians are being overlooked...

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...