Human Rights Education

I don't believe that our leaders want any of us regardless of race or nationality to be aware of our human rights. Why? Because we have all been violated. (Nicholas Busbee)

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."

Below is a partial list of your undeniable human rights. These are real laws that are enforceable in all countries that are members of the United Nations.

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 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 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 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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 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 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 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 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. (End)

Read your human rights these are real laws. The same laws that war criminals are judged with. African Americans you are a good standing member of the International community. We are not on a island. That's what our leaders don't want us to realize.

Our so called "civil rights" leaders only want us to look to them for leadership. So they can continue to get paid. They've never worked real jobs. And some who claim to be preachers have no church. What kind of preacher called by God doesn't preach the gospel?

An imposter! Cowards. They hide behind their bibles, say and do just enough to get on TV. And we continue to sing and march for the freedom we and all American's have had since 1948!

After reading your "human rights" tell me why we ever needed the "civil rights" movement. All we ever needed were these rights to be enforced. Our so called college educated and world traveled civil rights leader's know this now, and they knew it then.

But our so called leaders don't want us to even think about our true rights as human beings. The "civil rights" movement has been profitable for them. Plain and simple. They will never "rock the boat."

They have become wealthy and famous patronizing our struggle. Honored guest on talk shows and at the white house. But our situation hasn't changed.

We have an African American President who can't even appear to be overly concerned with the injustice's that are hurled at African Americans everyday. If he did do the right thing he would be accused of being "too Black." And his political career would be over as fluently as it started.

I don't believe that our leaders want any of us regardless of race or nationality to be aware of our human rights. Why? Because we have all been violated.