From our friends at the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition:
December 10 is the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This document, ratified by all United Nations member states, declares, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”
Yesterday, December 9th was another 60th anniversary, of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Today, the list of human rights violations around the world is unbearably long. The Darfur genocide is in its sixth year.
Only individual people can make documents signed by governments effective. Today, please take one or more of the following actions to commemorate these anniversaries:
1. Take action at StopGenocideNow.org, honoring, in particular, the women of Sudan.
2. Join the Elders and send a message to the UN General Assembly. Visit www.everyhumanhasrights.org and call on individuals and governments to renew their commitments to human rights.
3. Help protect and empower Congo’s women by asking President-Elect Obama to announce his administration’s initial plan to end violence against women and girls in eastern Congo by no later than International Women’s Day, March 8, 2009.
