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60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

December 10, 2008 By kyledeb 4 Comments

The U.S. has supported the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so let’s just see how many of these articles have been violated in the U.S. treatment of migrants. 

Article 1.
      All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.
      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. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
      Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

[…]

Article 5.
      No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
      Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

[…]

Article 9.
      No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

[…]

Article 11.
      (1) 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.

[…]

Article 12.
      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 the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
      (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

      (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
      (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

      (2) 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.

Article 15.
      (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

      (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

[…]

Article 23.
      (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

      (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

      (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

      (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948)

A case could be made that migrants rights are violated according 12 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  It’s been 60 years but we still have a long way to go.

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  1. djbpih says

    December 10, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    for your post and acknowledging this important day!  

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  2. laurel says

    December 11, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Sometime in the next week or so France is expected to introduce a nonbinding declaration for the international decriminalization of homosexuality.  

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    p>The declaration won’t be put to the vote until a majority of the UN’s 192 countries have signed on. Signatories so far include Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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    p>Notice that the United States of America is missing from the list.

    “I’m running for President to build an America that lives up to our founding promise of equality for all – a promise that certainly extends to the LGBT community.” –Barack Obama, on the campaign trail

    Now is this time to contact president-elect Obama and secretary of state-designate Hillary Clinton and “ask them to make good on that promise by announcing that the Obama administration will support the UN declaration on decriminalization of homosexuality.”

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    p>Here is the declaration

    We have the honor to make this statement on human rights, sexual orientation, and gender identity on behalf of […]

    1 – We reaffirm the principle of universality of human rights, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights whose 60th anniversary is celebrated this year, Article 1 of which proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”;

    2 – We reaffirm that everyone is entitled to the enjoyment of human rights without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, as set out in Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 2 of the International Covenants on Civil and Political, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, as well as in Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

    3 – We reaffirm the principle of non-discrimination which requires that human rights apply equally to every human being regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity;

    4 – We are deeply concerned by violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms based on sexual orientation or gender identity;

    5 – We are also disturbed that violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion, stigmatization and prejudice are directed against persons in all countries in the world because of sexual orientation or gender identity, and that these practices undermine the integrity and dignity of those subjected to these abuses;

    6 – We condemn the human rights violations based on sexual orientation or gender identity wherever they occur, in particular the use of the death penalty on this ground, extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, the practice of torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary arrest or detention, and deprivation of economic, social, and cultural rights, including the right to health;

    7 – We recall the statement in 2006 before the Human Rights Council by fifty four countries requesting the President of the Council to provide an opportunity, at an appropriate future session of the Council, for discussing these violations;

    8 – We commend the attention paid to these issues by special procedures of the Human Rights Council and treaty bodies and encourage them to continue to integrate consideration of human rights violations based on sexual orientation or gender identity within their relevant mandates;

    9 – We welcome the adoption of Resolution AG/RES. 2435 (XXXVIII-O/08) on “Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity” by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States during its 38th session in 3 June 2008;

    10 – We call upon all States and relevant international human rights mechanisms to commit to promote and protect human rights of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity;

    11- We urge States to take all the necessary measures, in particular legislative or administrative, to ensure that sexual orientation or gender identity may under no circumstances be the basis for criminal penalties, in particular executions, arrests; or detention;

    12 – We urge States to ensure that human rights violations based on sexual orientation or gender identity are investigated and perpetrators held accountable and brought to justice;

    13 – We urge States to ensure adequate protection of human rights defenders, and remove obstacles which prevent them from carrying out their work on issues of human rights and sexual orientation and gender identity.

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    • sabutai says

      December 11, 2008 at 9:24 pm

      So the United States isn’t on this list, but Gabon is?  Gabon, a country where freedom is so important that they’ve had the same head of government for 41 years.  Or Serbia, as in “site of a genocide in recent history” Serbia.  Why is the US government ready to deny rights that these countries are extending?

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      • laurel says

        December 11, 2008 at 9:48 pm

        to obama and to clinton.  you can contact clinton here.  how does one contact obama these days?  he is not listed on the senate page any more.

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