{"id":346,"date":"2008-12-10T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:17:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:17:15","slug":"universal-declaration-of-human-rights-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/universal-declaration-of-human-rights-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that your news source of choice has a piece on the 60th anniversary of adoption of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/Overview\/rights.html\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>. This statement is almost certainly the most important text of the 20th Century. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times brought together a remarkable group of writers to reflect on the UDHR, so I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/indepth\/amnesty\/\">the web version of their project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One welcome aspect of living in Ireland is the amount of attention paid to the big questions facing the whole world. It is now the International Year of Human Rights Learning, and so Ireland&#8217;s institutions have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/education\/features\/in-my-opinion-liftoff-for-human-rights-learning-in-our-schools-1568742.html\">programmes that actually affect people<\/a>. In the US, if such declarations are noted at all, it is usually either co-opted as <a href=\"http:\/\/aclu.org\/intlhumanrights\/gen\/38037prs20081210.html\">a partisan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/editorials\/articles\/2008\/12\/10\/still_to_do_on_human_rights\/\">rallying<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwatch.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&#038;b=1330819&#038;ct=6441249\">cry<\/a>, or treated as political frivolity, like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/04\/21\/today-is-particle-accelerator-day\/\">Particle Accelerator Day<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.heraldextra.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=109485\">Uno the Beagle Day<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/publications\/ejournalusa\/1108.html\">Some circles<\/a> do take it seriously, but did you hear about the UDHR&#8217;s anniversay until just now?<\/p>\n<p>I humbly suggest that you take interest in your humanity today, for 10-15 minutes. If you&#8217;ve never read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, <a href=\"http:\/\/ccnmtl.columbia.edu\/projects\/mmt\/udhr\/index.html\">do it today<\/a>. If you have, take a look at that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/indepth\/amnesty\/\">Irish Times website<\/a>, or for an American perspective, read (or listen to) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/eleanorrooseveltdeclarationhumanrights.htm\">Eleanor Roosevelt&#8217;s speech from sixty years ago<\/a>. (The inspiring stuff starts about one-third in, but the political context is interesting too.)<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;re welcome, as always, to add your own reflections here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that your news source of choice has a piece on the 60th anniversary of adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This statement is almost certainly the most important text of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17,94],"tags":[310,229,312,307,311,308,313,305,309,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}