International Human Rights Day observed

International Human Rights Day observed

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, December 10 : In an effort to create awareness among students about the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Centre for Integrated Learning released an educative poster on Thursday to observe the International Human Rights Day. The release programme was organized by CIL in association with the Mangalore Bar Association at the District Court Hall in the city.

 

Speaking on the occasion after releasing the poster, the First Additional District and Sessions Judge H Sanjeev Kumar exhorted the young advocates to champion the cause of human rights. Emphatically stating that there would be no democracy without advocates, he regretted that over the years the voice of the advocacy was becoming feeble that meant detrimental in checking human rights violation. The practitioners of law should play a more proactive role in standing up and voicing their opinions so as to enable the policy makers and the judiciary to promulgate stricter norms for the safeguarding of human rights.

He lamented that even the affluent and well educated violated basic norms of human rights, he said that it was not the lack of awareness or education that were reasons for violation of human rights, but it was the lack of public consciousness.

Quoting several provisions under law to protect the right to life and dignity, rampancy in child labour, dowry deaths among other burning issues, Sanjeev Kumar remarked the the Acts were not effectively implemented or enforced and that advocates had a pivotal role in this regard.

The first copy of the poster was handed over to Anitha Cardiero, President of Mangalore Toastmasters’ Club and teacher of St Mary’s School, as a symbolic gesture to begin the distribution process.

The poster will be distributed to all the schools in the district and that the display of such an important document in a prominent place in a school will go a long way in creating awareness among school children about the concepts and significance of Human Rights, opined Sachitha Nandagopal, Executive Director of Centre for Integrated Learning.

The programme was presided over by President of Mangalore Bar Association, senior advocate S P Chengappa.

Additional District Judge Sanjeev Kumar later interacted with the students of CIL Parallel School. CIL coordinator Jenifer D’Sa compeered the programme and General Secretary of Mangalore Bar Association Eshwar Kottary proposed the vote of thanks.

 

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Proclaimed by United Nations on December 10, 1948)

Preamble
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Human rights set out in the Declaration

· All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
· Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
·Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
·    No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
· No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
· Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
· All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
· Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
· No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
· Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
· Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
· No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
· Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country.
· Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
· Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
· Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.
· Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
· Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
· Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
· Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
· Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
· Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
· Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
· Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
· Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
· Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
· Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.


Released on December 10, 2009 on the occasion of  International Human Rights Day.


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