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Pauline von Hellermann

Today is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948, the declaration was a response to Nazi atrocities and presents the foundational principles for human rights across the world.

Never has it been more important to remind ourselves of their existence and validity.

I invite you to read and share them today! A brief 🧡 1/n

#HumanRights #UDHR #NeverAgain #NieWieder #Gaza
#UN

un.org/en/about-us/universal-d

Black and white photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt holding up a large printed out sheet of the Declaration of Human Rights. She is holding it to her left side, looking on it herself, face in profile. Taken on 10th December 1948
10 Dec 2023 at 4:26 | Open on mastodon.green
50 comments
LA Legault

@pvonhellermannn

Woof, well it was a good 75 years while it lasted.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:28 | Open on newsie.social
Pauline von Hellermann

@LALegault well it was never actually made a reality anywhere. Painfully obvious when you read it all! But now we are so far off from this even being an ideal

10 Dec 2023 at 5:26 | Open on mastodon.green
Zilla

@LALegault @pvonhellermannn It never even got off to a good start to be honest.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:57 | Open on mastodon.social
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 2/n

Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

The full 1948 sheet of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Text here: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
10 Dec 2023 at 4:31 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 3/n

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:34 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:37 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:39 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 11

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. […]

10 Dec 2023 at 4:42 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 7/n

Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:44 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 8/n

Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15

Everyone has the right to a nationality.

No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 8/n

Article 14

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:46 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 9/n

Article 16

Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:48 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 10/n

Article 17

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:49 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:51 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 21

Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:53 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 13/n

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:56 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 23

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring [..] an existence worthy of human dignity [..].

Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡14/n

Article 23

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring [..] an existence worthy of human dignity [..].

10 Dec 2023 at 4:59 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 15/n

Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of[…] lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:04 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 16/n

Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the [..] fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:07 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 17/n

Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:09 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:10 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

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Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29

Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition

10 Dec 2023 at 5:14 | Open on mastodon.green
Pauline von Hellermann replied to Pauline von Hellermann

#UDHR 75th Anniversary 🧡 20/n

and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [..]

Article 30

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.”

END. And now weep. How far off we are from all this.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:18 | Open on mastodon.green
Eye replied to Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn

I was about to say something similar (your final comment).

Thank you so much for posting this; it is an important reminder. I don't imagine many have even heard of this vital document.

10 Dec 2023 at 6:15 | Open on mastodon.social
TCat - Vote Blue, Vote Harris replied to Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn
Brilliant!

Thank you for reminding us what politicians once aspired to.
#UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights

10 Dec 2023 at 9:34 | Open on mastodon.social
GinevraCat replied to Pauline von Hellermann

@pvonhellermannn This toot with part of the UNDHR about parents having a prior right to choose the type of education their children receive was key in getting home schooling legalised in South Africa.

10 Dec 2023 at 9:35 | Open on toot.community
Pauline von Hellermann replied to GinevraCat

@GinevraCat thank you, that’s really interesting! I was wondering about that clause

10 Dec 2023 at 15:54 | Open on mastodon.green
generationX

@pvonhellermannn they put it as a wishlist before christmas but it will never come true as long as humans are in power.

10 Dec 2023 at 4:50 | Open on mstdn.social
CJ Paloma's Revival

@generationX @pvonhellermannn

as long as -sociopathic- humans are in power.

Most humans are not willing to kill for power.

But unfortunately when rule by violence (military) is still seen as legit (much less a huge industry), the few who are willing to kill for power -will- use violence to grab at this form of sick stunted power.

That never gets any mention in the for profit propaganda machines, nor in the other forms of education they desperately try to manipulate and control.

10 Dec 2023 at 13:43 | Open on tooters.org
πŸ€– Lazaro el dog

@pvonhellermannn

I wish all the people really considered all human beings equal.

10 Dec 2023 at 7:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Nicole Parsons

@pvonhellermannn

Billionaires & corporations are funding legal precepts like "super-citizens"

The wealthy who can't be taxed

Former presidents who cannot be held to account for crimes, past, present, or future

Corporations ending the habitability of a planet

Oligarchs funding wars & subverting elected government

Tech lords colluding with foreign despots & spreading malign influence campaigns

Tories & the GOP don't worry about unpopular policies; they have anti-democracy billionaires

10 Dec 2023 at 7:20 | Open on mstdn.social
DrAlexandraK

@pvonhellermannn That Israel has systematically ignored since its inception

10 Dec 2023 at 5:32 | Open on med-mastodon.com
Zilla

@DrAlexandraK @pvonhellermannn Not just Isreal, so many of the major and minor powers (proxy states) have abused this document and the ideals contained within it for their own ends.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:58 | Open on mastodon.social
DrAlexandraK

@ZillaMon @pvonhellermannn
you are correct, and the USA is at the top of that list

10 Dec 2023 at 6:57 | Open on med-mastodon.com
Zilla

@pvonhellermannn I will quote Orwell, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others", as wonderful as this declaration is, it has been selectively applied since day one and has provided cover for the successors of the old order in repressing people.

10 Dec 2023 at 5:56 | Open on mastodon.social
dogzilla

@pvonhellermannn @msbw I think it’s important to recognize that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was always meant to be aspirational, a goal to work towards.

The framers always wanted this to be clear so that oppressed people never gave up hope because their reality was so far away from the stated goals.

10 Dec 2023 at 6:02 | Open on metrobus.masto.host
Tommy Orbell

@pvonhellermannn I assume, in the UN, they use it a bog paper.

10 Dec 2023 at 9:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Andy Mouse

@pvonhellermannn

Self-proclaimed human privileges, I'd call them, selectively applied to those considered to be "human enough", by those who murdered and manipulated their way to the position of most power.

10 Dec 2023 at 9:30 | Open on todon.eu
Karen Strickholm

@pvonhellermannn

Awesome job on this awesome 🧡 Pauline!! I reposted the whole darn thing. Thank you so much. We will get there one day - this gives us the 🎯

10 Dec 2023 at 9:34 | Open on mastodon.online
fibanachi1
I see Dud people!

@pvonhellermannn "Hey, #tory scum, are you fcukers seeing this?"

10 Dec 2023 at 14:13 | Open on mas.to
Yours Truly!

@pvonhellermannn

Alas, we have the words, now we just still need more of the deeds.

:mastodon:

10 Dec 2023 at 14:13 | Open on mstdn.ca
Nuncio Bitis ✷ βœ… πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@pvonhellermannn
I thought the conservatives burned that a long time ago

10 Dec 2023 at 17:34 | Open on mstdn.social
Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸŒΉπŸš΄β€β™‚οΈπŸ“· πŸ—ΊοΈ
Pauline von Hellermann

@the5thColumnist thank you for this! I started reading around the declaration a bit more too today and was intrigued by John Peters Humphrey - I will read more about him, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt, Malik and Chand. The Wikipedia page for the #UDHR is quite informative too by the way:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universa

10 Dec 2023 at 18:42 | Open on mastodon.green
mercurial idiot

@pvonhellermannn wow... looking at just the first few it sounds so hopeful, but for almost each and every single one I can give an example of how it was disregarded at at least one point in the last decade.

10 Dec 2023 at 17:49 | Open on fosstodon.org
Pauline von Hellermann

@writeblankspace yes, exactly. By the end of the thread i felt quite distraught - so many people are just nowhere near having all these rights, governments nowhere namear ensuring them

10 Dec 2023 at 18:38 | Open on mastodon.green
Nessuno

@pvonhellermannn Thanks for sharing, it's always important to remember.

10 Dec 2023 at 20:19 | Open on mastodon.uno
Angua's Back :disability_pride:

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

A timely reminder of one of the VERY FEW decent things the UN has ever achieved.

I would add to that people should search for and check out the children of the UDHR - The Council Of Europe (1949) and its' The European Convention of Human Rights 1950/3 and The European Court of Human Rights.

The UK's borderline illegitimate siblings of the European Convention - "The Human Rights Act 1998", The Equality Act 2006 and utterly illegitimate Foster Parent: The Equality & Human Rights Commission (2007).

Sadly, the UK Fascist Party is trying to force through the "Data Protection and Digital Information Bill" and the "Safety of Rwanda Bill" - which are the death of human rights - before it (Tory Party) is consigned to electoral oblivion and the UK Red Not Really Fascist Party is doing nothing to stop either or committing to repeal them IF passed; or help the many people forced into extreme deprivation since 2010.

I am waiting for someone to realise the solution to ALL the Boat crossings is to stop the (resource/idiotological) wars (refugees) and ENFORCE the bloody UDHR worldwide (Asylum Seekers)!

Noone has yet admitted that current migration patterns are a drop in the ocean (pun intended) compared to when 4 percent, or higher, above pre industrial level temperature levels rise alongside the less obvious effects of pollution - drive up to 2/3 of the world into mass migration for survival.

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

A timely reminder of one of the VERY FEW decent things the UN has ever achieved.

I would add to that people should search for and check out the children of the UDHR - The Council Of Europe (1949) and its' The European Convention of Human Rights 1950/3 and The European Court of Human Rights.

The UK's borderline illegitimate siblings of the European Convention - "The Human Rights Act 1998", The Equality Act 2006 and utterly illegitimate Foster Parent: The Equality &...

10 Dec 2023 at 22:50 | Open on ambrosia.moe
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