“Dignity, freedom and justice” is this year’s motto. The Secretary General of the United Nations has denounced that new challenges are emerging from what he has called “the triple planetary crisis”, made up of climate change, the loss of biodiversity and pollution.
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Today, December 10, we celebrate the International Human Rights Day under the motto “Dignity, freedom and justice”. On the occasion of the anniversary, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Anthony Guterres, has warned that the world is facing “unprecedented challenges”. Among the risks he has cited increased hunger and poverty, diminishing civic spaces and the “dangerous decline” of media freedom and the safety of journalists.
The UN approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, with the writing of 30 articles. The first declares that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and, endowed as they are with reason and conscience, should behave towards one another in brotherhood” and the second that “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 any other condition .
Article third says: “Every individual has the right to life, liberty and the security of his person”. However, the reality that the world has been dragging along, as well as some news that this 2022 has left, make it clear that the road to travel in achieving the objectives of the Declaration continues to be a long one. Let us remember that in February the war began between Ukraine and Russia, causing thousands of deaths, civilians and children among them. And in Iran, the harsh protests that arose after the arrest and murder of Mahsa Amini, for wearing the veil wrongly. This week one of the participants in the protests was hanged. There are ten other detainees on death row.
“Unprecedented Challenges”
In his speech on the occasion of Human Rights Day, the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has denounced that new challenges are emerging from what he has called “the triple planetary crisis“, made up of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
In addition, Guterres has made reference to the fact that trust in institutions is “evaporating”, especially among the youngest and how, as a result of the pandemic, there has been an increase in violence against women and girls.
“These difficult times require a reactivation of our commitment to all Human Rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social”, he pointed out, after which he recalled that in 2020 he issued the Call to Action to place Human Rights in the center and seek solutions internationally.
Lastly, he pointed out that the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be reached next year It must be understood as an opportunity for action.
“I urge Member States, civil society, the private sector and others to put Human Rights at the center to reverse harmful trends,” he concluded.
Various events in Euskal Herria
The Parliament of Navarre commemorated this Saturday the 74th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a institutional act in which its president, Unai Hualde, has stressed the “need to introduce its compliance in the political agenda of all governments”.
The Navarrese Parliament calls to “remember the Declaration” in order to end social exclusion
During the reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an alleged agent has begun to arrest a person who was reading in Arabic. The parliamentarians did not know that it was an interpretation and a scandal has been set up, from which it has been difficult for them to overcome.
In Bilbao, for their part, a dozen associations have demonstrated under the slogan “Stand up for your rights”:
Likewise, the citizen network Sare He has denounced, in a demonstration called in the Biscayan town of Durango, the “regressions of degree” of the ETA prisoners, which he has considered does not imply “justice, but revenge”, and has called for an “ordinary” prison policy to the inmates of the gang.
And in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Etxerat has once again called for the end of the application of a “differentiating” prison policy and “exclusively punitive” against ETA prisoners and has insisted that in the “new time” after the end of violence the “right to resocialization should take precedence over any hint of revenge.”
Etxerat calls for “the right to resocialization to take precedence over revenge”
Source: Eitb
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