Human Rights (Ireland)

national | rights and freedoms | opinion/analysis 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 the 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) have 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?