Every Human Has Rights
We all know that we are human and that we have rights. We all know that there are organizations like Amnesty International fighting for those rights and therefore we know that human rights are being abused all around the world. Yet, how many of us are really familiar with our rights as human beings? How many of us have their rights knowingly or unknowingly violated? How did we come to have any rights in the first place?
Simple questions that every human being should ask. Through quick editing and animation, the following video by HumanRights.com gives a fast-paced introduction to Human Rights and their history from antiquity to the present. Following the video is the list of our 30 rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For more information please visit Amnesty International or HumanRights.com.
This Easter, Anti-Slavery International has launched Choco-Coat.com, a fun app which raises awareness on child slavery in Ivory Coast’s cocoa production, “Recommended by lying cocoa traders everywhere!”
Easter is gone, leaving behind it the sweet taste of chocolate eggs that bring a smile to children’s faces and turn adults into children. The sweetness of Easter eggs can have a very bitter aftertaste though, when we realize that more than 15,000 children are reduced to live and work as slaves in the 60,000 cocoa farms of the Ivory Coast, the world’s larger producer of cocoa, raw material for chocolate. With the biggest chocolate manufacturing companies turning a blind eye to the fact, the unwitting consumer has a right to be enraged that money spent to bring sweetness and pleasure to loved ones, also helps finance an industry which preys on the young. Continue reading