Human Rights Day Participating Blogs
Submit Your Post!
Did you write an article for this event? Submit it to the cause!
Through Her Work Protecting Victims, One Woman Has Become a Target of Attack Herself
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/through-her-work-protecting-victims-one…
Norma Cruz has been speaking out against domestic violence in Guatemala for many years. Because of her work, Norma has received numerous death threats and her life is now in grave danger.
Reggie Clemons Needs More Letters!
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/deathpenalty/reggie-clemons-needs-more-lett…
Over 3,000 Belgian citizens have handwritten and mailed in letters appealing for at least a commutation in the death sentence of Reggie Clemons, an American who was sentenced to death in St. Louis, Missouri as an accomplice in a 1991 murder. Can YOU help
Write a letter for human rights this December
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/write-a-letter-for-human-rights-this-de…
Your words DO have power. We’ve got the proof – real success stories told by the people who’ve experienced horrific human rights abuses. Just check out this video below from one of our previous Write-a-thon cases – Bu Dong Wei, a prisoner of co
Detention and Torture: Just Another Day in the Life of a Human Rights Defender in China
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/detention-and-torture-just-another-day-…
Mao Hengfeng has been repeatedly detained and tortured for her advocacy on behalf of women’s reproductive rights and the victims of forced evictions in China. Mao is featured along with 11 other cases of human rights abuses in the 2010 Global Write-a-th
If this happens to you, will you keep quiet
http://kerala2dolist.blogspot.com/2010/11/138-raise-your-voice-against…
People in the Kasargod district of Kerala, India are suffering from the exposure to endosulphan, a poisonous pesticide which is banned in most countries. The India Government is still supporting it, by highlighting some lame excuses of lack of proof, whil
There are more people in slavery now than any other time in human history.
http://fact-o-tron.com/people/human-rights-day/
In its 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade is estimated to have shipped up to 12 million Africans to various colonies in the West. Free the Slaves estimates that the number of people in slavery today is at least 27 million....
Seattle Human Rights Day & AI Write-a-Thon
http://javacolleen.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/seattle-human-rights-day-a…
About our city's Human Rights Day Event, including awards and a speaker on Muslim women's human rights; and our AI write-a-thon event at a coffee house.
True Story about Politics and Development of Self
http://needleinanewgroove.blogspot.com
Part 1 on Human Rights: labels activism, HumanRights, politics
Getting Down to Basics and Helping Where We Can
http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-does-living-in-dignity…
This is my day late post on Human Rights.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama
http://chensblog.com/blog/?p=137
There ware gatherings yesterday in various parts of the world commemorating 20th anniversary of the conferment of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama. Reading these news brings back profound memories of my first acquaintance with His Holiness.
Maguindanao Massacre
http://opinionstoday.blogspot.com/2009/12/private-armies-should-be-abo…
Safety and Security are one of the rights of a person to have. But how if it will be abused especially with the use of Private Armies? Is it still right to keep this Private Armies to kill and to cause terror to people?
Human Rights Day
http://mizzlady4life.blogspot.com/2009/12/human-rights-day.html
We have blood on our hands when we stand by and do nothing, about the atrocities taking place in our world. We can be the change in another's live.
A Pledge of Hope
http://dharbarkha.blogspot.com/2009/12/pledge-of-hope.html
A pledge that my hands write to consort with the globe to liberate ourselves from genocide and violation of human rights. As the connection between fundamental thoughts and feelings, my hands synergize and energize me to us, a state of fervency and sangui
-
Human Rights Day
http://www.amnestyusa.org/writ…
Celebrate Human Rights Day by using the proven tool of writing letters to save lives.
Each year hundreds of thousands of people across the world mark International Human Rights Day on December 10 by taking part in Amnesty International's Write for Rights Global Write-a-thon - the world's largest letter writing event. We write letters to demand that the rights of individuals are respected, protected and fulfilled. In doing so, we show solidarity with those suffering human rights abuses and work to bring about real change in people's lives.