"It is our duty to ensure that these rights are a living reality --
that they are known, understood and enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. It is often
those who most need their human rights protected, who also need to be informed
that the Declaration exists -- and that it exists for them." (United Nations
Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon)
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Human Rights
(Ireland)Monday
December 31, 2007 12:06 by W.
Finnerty. Human Rights Day 2007
(December 10th 2007) marked the start of a year-long commemoration of the
60th anniversary of the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
"It is our duty to ensure that these rights are a
living reality -- that they are known, understood and enjoyed by everyone,
everywhere. It is often those who most need their human rights protected, who
also need to be informed that the Declaration exists -- and that it exists for
them." (United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon)
"The
Declaration belongs to each and every one of us – read it, learn it, promote it
and claim it as your own." The above excerpts
have been taken from the following
United Nations location:
http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2007/
.
A new web site, named
"Human Rights
(Ireland)", which hopefully will grow in size during this anniversary
year, has been opened recently to celebrate and to participate in the year-long
commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
The address of this new web site is:
http://humanrightsireland.com
.
EPILOGUE: Earlier today
RTE (State Broadcaster) reported that "
the Archbishop of Dublin
(Dr Neill) has warned that the nation is being sucked into a society that has lost its way."
(For the full text of Dr Neill's statement please see
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1231/newyear.html
.)
Could it be I wonder, that some careful consideration of
basic human rights principles, and
basic human rights law, might
help our nation find its way back out of the mess (as some see
it)?
It might be worth a try - and what have we (as a nation)
got to lose by such
efforts?
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The above
text has been copied from the following
Indymedia (Ireland)
location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85653 ===================
RELATED
LINKS:
Unlawful raw
sewage discharges in New Inn Village (County Galway):
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/Galway_CC_Jn-14-2002_.htm
Transmission of pathogens (from the
release of
untreated sewage):
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/Media/17December2007/Email.htm
Unconstitutional
Legislation, United Nations Aarhus
Convention Agreement, & Kilconnell Superdump:
http://www.finnachta.com/BordPleanalaAppeal.htm
Planned
New Road (N6 Upgrade) through the Turoe & Knocknadala set of ancient
heritage sites:
http://www.finnachta.com/Hotmail22Sept2004/KnocknadalaN6.htm
Kangaroo
Courts:
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/Media/12December2007/Email.htm ========
Related
web sites: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanrightsireland http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com
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