Human
Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10th
December. It commemorates the day in
1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The formal inception of
Human Rights Day dates from 1950, after the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V)
inviting all States and interested organizations to adopt 10 December of each
year as Human Rights Day.
“Our Rights.
Our Freedoms. Always.” aims to promote and raise awareness of the two Covenants
on their 50th anniversary. The year-long campaign revolves around the theme of
rights and freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want,
and freedom from fear — which underpin the International Bill of Human Rights
are as relevant today as they were when the Covenants were adopted 50 years ago.
HOW IT IS CELEBRATED
The day is celebrated by
organizing the political conferences, meetings, exhibitions, cultural events,
debates and many more programs to discuss all the issues of human rights.
Several governmental, civil and nongovernmental associations actively take part
in the human rights event celebration.
Human rights day is celebrated
by deciding a particular theme to make this celebration more effective and
successful. Human poverty in any country is the greatest human rights
challenge. One of the major goals of celebrating the human rights day is to
eradicate the poverty from the life of human being and help them in getting the
well being life. Various other programs including music, drama, dance, fine art
and etc are held focusing to help people to learn their rights.
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE
AND OBJECTIVES OF HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Human rights day is the
worldwide observance celebrated by the people all across the world to get the
real rights for the human beings. This day is celebrated to improve the
physical, social, cultural and spiritual well being and welfare of the
vulnerable group of people globally.
Some of the important reasons
of why do we celebrate and objectives are:
·
To
promote the awareness about human rights among the people all around the world.
·
To
emphasize the endeavors of the United Nations General Assembly in order to
progress the overall human rights conditions.
·
To
get together and celebrate in cooperation to discuss and highlight the specific
issues of the human rights.
THEMES OF HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
·
Theme
of 2012 was “Inclusion and the right to participate in public life” and
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.
·
Theme
of 2013 was “20 Years: Working for Your Rights”.
·
Theme
of 2014 was “Celebrating 20 years of changing lives through Human Rights”.
Ø No
matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in
their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
Ø Health is a human necessity;
health is a human right.
Ø An
injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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In India, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has
been constituted under
Human Right Act 1993. This has been the milestone of promotion and protection of human rights in
Indian society. In India the celebration of Human Rights Day
on December 10th , gives us an opportunity to judge
the accountability to human rights standards. The day is also celebrated to
promote the universal human rights: to live and to do so
peacefully. Human Rights issues in India relate to trafficking
of women and children, food security, right to education and health,
disappearance of persons,
displacement of persons due to disasters, conflicts and development, child labor, custodial deaths, violation of
Human
Rights in prisons and the disabled etc. On these issues,
the
Commission is not only dealing with individual cases but also issuing
policy guidelines for implementing agencies.
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