Three years after the end of World War II, the crime war is judged. The Nuremberg trial judge nazis for crime against humanity. Jewish, gipsy, homosexual, people with disabilities, politic opponent, war prisoners, the holocaust has killed millions of persons. 6 millions of jewish people are killed, creating the biggest genocide of the world history. This human disaster encouraged the United Nation to create a new document, a new vision of life.
Inspired by the French “Declaration of Human and civic rights” of 1789, Eleanore Roosevelt, the American president Franklin Roosevelt’s wife, and representatives from all around the world created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The goal of this declaration is to secure our rights as human being, to avoid human disaster as the holocaust.
30 articles, called Human Rights, compose this declaration in response to crime against humanity. Article 4: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude” Article 5: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”, article 18:” Right to freedom of thoughts, conscience and religion”. Translated in more than 500 different languages, most of the country adopted this declaration as a peace goal to reach.
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, several events affected human rights. In 2001, a serie of terrorist attack against the United State of America paralyze the world, almost 3000 of deaths which marked the beginning of an endless war against terrorism and against idea imposition. Most of those terrorist attack strike in Syria and Irak by terrorism groups in order to impose their ideas and even in Europe.
In 2015, a terrorist attack in a french newspaper called “Charlie Hebdo” attack directly the expression liberty, and the Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Right to freedom of opinion and expression”.
However, even if most of the world's countries established this declaration in their constitution, it’s not a juridical obligation, every country is free to lead its own politics.
Since the 21st of November, the football world cup in Qatar generated several debates about human rights. In their constitution, women and homosexual people suffer of discriminations, and many people, principally migrants died in the construction to welcome the football matches… Several boycott calls have been pronounced to show the social and ecological aberration that this Football World Cup is.
The 10th of December 2022, the entire world would stand up for dignity, freedom and justice. In 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated, a year-long campaign will take place from the 10th of December 2022 until the next date in 2023 to rekindle the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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