[mukto-mona] 60th Anniversary International Human Rights Day articles

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60th Anniversary International Human Rights Day

• Human Rights Require Stronger Institutions _ By Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson;

SIXTY YEARS AGO this week, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first international proclamation of the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people. To this day, the Universal Declaration remains the single most important reference point for discussion of ethical values across national, ideological, and cultural divides.

Yet the Declaration's enlightened vision of individual freedom, social protection, economic opportunity and duty to community is still unfulfilled.

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• A Universal Revolution _ By Aryeh Neier

THE MOST IMPORTANT contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 years ago, on December 10, 1948, was to assert a powerful idea: rights are universal. Rights do not depend on membership of a particular community or citizenship in a certain state. They do not derive from a social contract.

Rather, because rights are universal, they are attributes of all human beings. Indeed, they are part of what makes us human. Each of us may enjoy rights. Those who exercise power may do so only in limited ways. The limits are set by rights.
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• 60th Anniversary of International Human Rights Day & Burma (Burmese) _ By Ko Yin Aye

(Zaw Gyi 1 font)

လာမည့္ဒီဇင္ဘာလ(၁၀)ရက္ေန႔ဆိုလွ်င္အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္း ႀကီးကို၊သေဘာတူလက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ၾကသည္မွာအႏွစ္(၆၀)တင္းတင္းျပည့္ၿပီျဖစ္သည္။

သို႔ေသာ္လည္း၊လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္းႀကီး၏အႏွစ္သာရျဖစ္ေသာ၊"လူျခင္းတူတူ၊ သူျခင္းမွ်မွ် ေနထိုင္ခြင့္"ဆိုသည့္ ေမြးရာပါ လူ႔အေျခခံအခြင့္အေရးမ်ားမွာ၊ ၄င္းစာတမ္းႀကီးကို တရားဝင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ၿပီးမွ၊ ေျပာင္က်က် ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္ခံေနရသည္မွာ၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔၏ အမိျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျဖစ္သည္။

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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/university_teachers_arrest.htm

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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
http://www.mukto-mona.com/news/daily_star/daily_star_MM.pdf

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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm

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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm

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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona 
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/kansat2006/members/


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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm

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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/


Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/index.htm

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