Every Human Has Rights

While individuals and organizations around the world encouraged people to embrace the principles the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, researchers at WorldPublicOpinion.org conducted a global poll to test our current views and on the principles of the Universal Declaration...

National Geographic has joined the Every Human Has Rights campaign by released a new childrens book to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The book, titled Every Human Has Rights, uses images and accessible text to help children learn their human rights...

If you are online or have your mobile phone in hand Wednesday, December 10th, join us for a digital Every Human Has Rights Rally! Whether by text message, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, your blog, or even email, show your support by declaring that Every Human Has Rights...

This last weekend, the Elders gathered a group greater than two hundred strong at La Maison Des Arts et Métiers in Paris to reflect on the last year of Every Human Has Rights...

The Elders have gathered a wide ranging group in Paris today, including 30 award winning human rights journalists, to amplify the voices of millions of people around the world, re-committing themselves to the goals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and calling on governments &...

Human rights cannot be universal without human rights for women. Today marks the first of 16 day of activism around the world - standing up for women's rights and against gender violence...

UNICEF: Sixtieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights PSA UNICEF teamed up with The Elders' Archbishop Desmond Tutu, creating this new campaign public service announcement for 'December's Rights of the Child' campaign theme.

For those of you living in the New York region of the United States, our partners at Realizing Rights invite you to join them for evening of conversation on 'Hope for Human Rights in an Era of New Leadership' at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, November 24th, 2008...

The Public vote for most eye opening human rights report is open and we need your help After the field of 482 applicants was narrowed through national and regional selections, and an international professional jury made up of experienced journalists and human rights experts selected 30 EHHR...

Just months ago, EHHR campaign partner Internews called on journalists and citizen journalists all around the world to submit their best work to the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards...

Just months ago, EHHR campaign partner Internews called on journalists and citizen journalists all around the world to submit their best work to the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards...

The Public vote for most eye opening human rights report is open and we need your help After the field of 482 applicants was narrowed through national and regional selections, and an international professional jury made up of experienced journalists and human rights experts selected 30 EHHR...

Mary Robonson participating in a Belfast "Stand Up Take Action" event with attendees of the Amnesty International Annual Lecture Copyright: Amnesty International...

Young people in Córdoba's Paseo del Buen Pastor behind OAJNU's Every Human Has Rights banner...

The 2008 Stand Up Against Poverty Clip October 17th has arrived at the International Date Line, and this years 'Stand Up Take Action' event is underway. Watch this year's official clip for the big event.

While Stand Up is doubtless only a success because of the hundreds of thousands of organizers and millions of participants every year, there is a dedicated team of coordinators working hard to bring all of the global actions together for this massive declaration against poverty and inequality and...

In the lead up to this years Stand Up event, over 9,000 bloggers with an estimated readership near 11,000,000 people, are writing posts about poverty today...

This fourth Decent Work film from Madmundo shows some of the highlights from the Liberia Decent Work Forum...

This third Decent Work film from Madmundo accompanies Mary Robinson to Liberia on her field visit of a concrete decent work program put in place by the ILO to create jobs in order to revive the national economy and increase local living standards...

What are you doing October 17th through the 19th? Every Human Has Rights partner GCAP is asking people around the world to 'Stand Up and Take Action' on October 17-19, to ensure governments worldwide hear our demands to end poverty and inequality...

Downloadthe event Press Release ...

Today, Oslo, Norway, has opened its doors to the first of two days of Every Human Has Rights related events on the important topic of Decent Work. The International Labor Organization created a 3 minute web video that describes decent work...

Archived footage of the UN Event: 'The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis: Root Causes and Responses' ...

Download50 Days of ActionPress Release As ministers and agency heads from around the world, gather in Ghana for the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Every Human Has Rights partner The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) held a press conference in Accra, announcing the beginning of...

Aerial art demanding world leaders take action on the global food crisis in July. Throughout the year, global citizen's have called on world leaders to take action to address the global food crisis...

September is quickly approaching, and with it, the Every Human Has Rights campaign will turn its focus toward the theme 'Right to Decent Work', led by campaign partner Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative...

...

At the UN World Summit in 2005, world leaders unanimously adopted the principle of the Responsibility to Protect...

Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative has taken the lead on Every Human Has Rights campaign theme 'The Right to Decent Work'...

Celebrating Human Rights: In December 2008, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Internews and the Every Human Has Rights campaign, supported by The Elders, will celebrate a year of collaboration with leading human rights organisations through...

From the Action Aid website: ...

View more pictures of the Johannesburg aerial art call to action at Circle Up Now...

Mary Robinson discusses the challenges read more

As the US marks its Independence Day, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reminds Americans about the importance of the Universal Declaration and the international human rights system.read more

photo courtesy of frontlineblogger Every Human Has Rights campaign partners CIVICUS, GCAP, and Amnesty International have combined forces across Africa in a joint call to action for the people of Zimbabwe.read more

On June 26th, activists all over the world joined in an 'International Day in Support of Victims of Torture' by calling on governments to reaffirm their commitment to the consensus first affirmed after the Second World War - that torture and other ill-treatment are absolutely prohibited...

Living in fear is not just a condition of life in war torn countries like Sudan, Afghanistan, or Iraq...

Today marks the end of the first annual meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva Switzerland, and the human face of climate change was threaded throughout...

Q&A;: Righting Human Wrongs Interview with Mary Robinson, former U.N...