Every Human Has Rights
Internews has produced a public service announcement (PSA) on media freedom on behalf of The Elders and their Every Human Has Rights campaign for TV, Radio and Internet Distribution. Click here to learn more.
Healthcare Company Novo Nordisk just published a report on the ‘right to health’ and pledging it’s support for the aims of the Every Human Has Rights campaign.
Learn more about the right to heath on this month’s theme page.
The Elders’ Mary Robinson delivered the University of Alberta’s Human Rights Lectureship in Edmonton, Canada on April 2nd.
Although it is recognized in the Universal Declaration and enshrined in legally binding international human rights treaties, the right to health still does not carry the same currency as the right to freedom of expression or the right to be free from torture. I can tell you that for millions of people around the world, health is perhaps the most valuable of all human rights. It is inseparable from the right to life and security. And it is women, children and marginalized populations that continue to suffer by far the worst deal.
Mary Robinson, April 2nd, 2008
Read the full text of Mary’s speech here. The Every Human Has Rights April campaign theme is focused on the right to health.
“Sovereignty should no longer be seen as a privilege but as a very heavy responsibility. Every State has to protect its people: it is only when States respect fundamental human rights and uphold the dignity and worth of each person, that sovereignty will be recognized by all as credible and legitimate.”
These were some of the remarks by former United Nations Secretary General, and Elder, Kofi A. Annan, when he was honored with The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Award for International Justice on March 20th, 2008. You can read Mr. Annan’s full remarks here. Mr. Annan is the first recipient of the MacArthur Award for International Justice.
“Building Justice,” a film about the international justice system
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Tags: macarther, video1.2 billion people have no access to clean water and sanitation. Women suffer disproportionately from lack of access to clean water.
Studies show that poor rural women in many developing countries may spend up to eight hours a day collecting water, carrying up to 20 kilos of water on their heads each journey. Every day 6,000 girls and boys die from diseases linked to unsafe water, inadequate health and poor hygiene. Women are the main caretakers for sick children and adults.
But solutions are possible. Women have formed neighbourhood cooperatives to administer local water pumps and provide hygiene education. They have joined together to make sure that water flows where it should. And they have combined their voices to campaign against unaffordable water prices.
Women understand that access to water is fundamental to the realization of a range of human rights.
On this International Water Day, the Elders join with others in reminding the world of the Millennium Development Goal in which government leaders committed to reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015. We must all do our part to meet that basic goal. Time is running out.
You can read more about water as a human right in an article by Mary Robinson. entitled. “The Right to Water for All - a Utopia within our Reach”
Celebrate World Water Day by taking action with one of the partners in the Every Human Has Rights Campaign, UNICEF, which provides access to safe water and sanitation facilities while promoting safe hygiene practices in more than 90 countries.
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Tags: video, waterThere are countless reasons why we chose the importance of women’s rights as this month’s campaign theme; and among them is the incredible work of our campaign parters, who continue to demonstrate the essential and central role of women in creating sustainable solutions to end poverty and conflict, and to realize human rights around the world. EHHR campaigners at ActionAid just released a well timed report titled “Hit or Miss - Women’s Rights and the Millennium Development Goals”, which was featured in the Guardian Online.
Like so many humanitarian organizations around the world, working to realize women’s rights has become a common thread running through everything ActionAid does. To illustrate the strength of that thread, they’ve gone beyond convention, using creative partnerships and innovative platforms to highlight the abuse of women’s rights across the world; while celebrating the central role that women play in creating a fairer and more just world.
ActionAid partnered with The Birds Eye View Film Festival to put together and present a strand of fascinating works by women filmmakers from the developing world; you can see a few clips embedded from YouTube below.
They participated in a number of events around the UK; stepped up efforts to highlight their Invisible Women campaign, drawing attention to the impact of HIV and AIDS on women around the world; created online activism opportunities; and even launched a Facebook application: Women Rock!
The Every Human Has Rights campaign will bring you news on women’s rights from our partners throughout the month and we hope to continue throughout the year. Use our Witness Hub page to let us know what you’re doing to help realize Woman’s Rights in your community.
Tags: videoEvery Human Has Rights campaigner Heather Grady, Policy Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, sat down with the team at Witness to create this brief video invitation:
This interview was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and their event Human Rights for Women; Human Rights for All. The event, which coincided with the UN’s Global Status of Women conference, celebrated the the depth and diversity of the women’s movement and honored the commitment of women’s human rights defenders around the world.to speaks about the Every Human Has Rights campaign and how you can get involved.
On March 11th, BBC HARDtalk’s Sarah Montague interviewed Mary Robinson about the role of working women around the world. Watch and read more about the interview by clicking the image below:
Each month leading up to the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of our campaign partners will highlight a specific area of the rights contained in Universal Declaration; teaching you about its roots, where it stands today, and how you can get more involved.
This month’s theme, Women’s Rights are Human Rights, is curated by The Center for Women’s Global Leadership, at Rutgers University.
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