According to the United Nations these are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status and include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.
It was a long way until we stablished thirty articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 in order to protect these rights. From the first human rights declaration in the year 539 b.C, through the Magna Carta in 1215, the petition of rights in 1628, the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen during the French Revolution in 1789, we have tried to defend and regulate them. However, we still have a long way to go, since these articles are being violated every day in multiple parts of the world.
And we may think these violations only happen in undeveloped countries, but the truth is they happen everywhere including Europe, we just blind ourselves if they do not affect us directly.
For this reason, we prepared different educational activities and content to impact the mindset of developed countries.
We prepared a Instagram series of each article being violated that we released daily during the week, did a radio broadcast on the topic the day before, asked people on the street what three things would they take with them if they had to leave their country and everything they had immediately, created some debate about values and beliefs depending on cultural backgrounds and finally taught how to do origami peace cranes to refugees.
The result was surprisingly good. The proposed activities were welcomed, and we realised we made, especially the teenagers, start to think about topics they usually did not take into consideration or just did not question the way they are.
Of course, there is still a lot of work to do, and we will keep working on this matter in the nearby future, but like Mother Teresa said, if we did not give our drop to the ocean, the ocean would be missing something. However, it is not a matter of one, so it is your time to give as well your drop to the ocean and
work to uphold the rights that protect us.