#engagewithit | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rishmesworld · 5 months

Text

Why Read About it, Feel About it, Engage with it.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. UDHR was created in response to violations witnessed during World War II. Its primary objectives were to:

Establish a universal set of principles to safeguard the inherent dignity, equal rights of all individuals, regardless of nationality and ethnicity.

Provide a common moral foundation for the international community to prevent the reoccurrence of atrocities as well as promote peace.

Throughout the years it has served as the basis for the development of modern human rights law, a foundation for subsequent international human rights.

Modern rights encompass a broad range of categories that reflect the evolving understanding of individual and collective entitlements. Some of the key types of modern rights are:

Civil and Political Rights: Right to life, liberty and security. Freedom of speech assembly and association. Right to a fair trial. Right to privacy.

Social and Economic Rights: Right to work, right to education, right to health, right to social security, right to an adequate standard of living.

Cultural Rights: Right to participate in cultural, artistic and scientific activities, right to access and enjoy one’s cultural heritage.

Environmental Rights: Right to a healthy environment, right to information participation.

Women’s Rights: Right to gender equality, right to be free from discrimination based on gender, reproductive rights.

Children’s Rights: Right to protection from exploitation and abuse, right to education, right to a standard of living for physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.

Indigenous Rights: Right to self-determination, right to maintain, control, protect and develop cultural heritage, right to land and resources.

Refugee and Migrant Rights: Right to seek asylum, right for freedom of movement, right to be free from arbitrary detention.

Digital Rights: Right to privacy online, freedom of expression on the internet, protection from digital surveillance.

Labour Rights: Right to work, right to fair wages and working conditions, right to form and join trade unions.

Political and Participation Rights: Right to participate in government and public affairs, right to vote and stand for election.

Most of these rights are interconnected, while the recognition and protection of rights varies across countries and legal systems. UDHR acted as the international convention contributing to the global framework for safeguarding these rights.

When we look into history of Palestine-Israel conflict dated back to the Nakba of 1948, we find an endless siege of occupation, assassination of teachers, lawyers, fathers and mothers of poets and journalists. Their universities bombed, famished from food supplies, with their right to movement taken away from them. Hamas, a Sunni Islamic political and military organisation – born from this oppression, defended their right to live on October the 7th.

From this day on forth, the world continues to watch the occupants mass massacre children and women, their futures erased, their dreams shattered under the rubbles of hospitals. The hues of red, from white prosperous tainted their soils as a cruel testament for human capacity for destruction.

The occupation, resorting to DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) portraying themselves as the victim, continues to erase the ethnicity of the Palestinians from the river to sea.

Counting day nighty one into the Genocide, with no interference from UDHR, or any international institution, in spite of the citizens of the world roaring for a permanent ceasefire. We have woken up to the reality in which it is evident that humanity has failed.

The seeds planted in Palestine, causing the world to look into the ongoing Genocides across the globe, with its citizens calling out for freedom for Congo and Sudan.

Our digital rights violated with Meta, controlling the freedom of expression on its platform. Adding to the violation, denying the plea of voices calling out for an immediate ceasefire. Giving us every reason to engage with the media continuously working on liberation of the soul of our souls.

Evidently the governing bodies has failed to uphold the universally recognised principles outlined in human rights agreements, crippling the fundamental pillars of justice, equality and dignity that are meant to support societies equally.

We allow ourselves to feel about it because the grave violence activates our sense of moral justice. It makes us take a rigid stance for morality, reflecting an uncompromising commitment to uphold ethical principles in every interaction, for every individual.

To learn about the ongoing Genocides in the world, we begin to question their source of armoury. Bringing awareness on the consequences of our consumption. Fostering a sense of responsibility to understand the kind of world we are contributing to, when we choose to spend our money in franchises across the world.

#readaboutit #feelaboutit #engagewithit

0 notes