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As the world continues to face accumulating challenges, I urge everyone to remember:
Transcending them requires solidarity & compassion, focusing on our shared values: equality, justice & dignity. Values that span every generation, culture & continent.
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No division is worth the cost of human life & suffering.
Nobody wins in war.
#Act4RightsNow #HumanRights75
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Your voice matters!
Personalize your photo with the human rights statement that resonates with you. Share it on your social media using #HumanRights75 and #Acts4RightsNow to amplify the call for human rights and make your priorities heard.
🇺🇳 Human Rights Chief Volker Türk will visit #CzechRepublic from 23-24 November to discuss #HumanRights challenges w/ Govt officials, lawmakers, civil society, academia & students
He will also join a United Nations Human Rights Council retreat to strengthen human rights protection in the 🌏
Mark your calendar! 📢Join us at the Regional meeting for Asia Pacific on the International Decade for People of #AfricanDescent , focused on recognition, justice and development.
📅15-16 January 2024.
Register: ow.ly/SHHf50QaouW
In the new OHCHR-UNEP Environmental Rights Bulletin the High Commissioner calls for a #HumanRights economy to address climate change, biodiversity loss & pollution through transparent, accountable financing that prioritizes rights #HealthyEnvironmentForAll
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War. Discrimination. Poverty. Shrinking civic space. #TriplePlanetaryCrisis . 5 immense challenges threatening our world, fueling each other.
The solution does not rest on one person, company or Gov't, it lies in working together.
We need empathy & action. We need human rights.
📢 Join us for Human Rights 75 on December 11-12! 🤝 Whether in person or virtually, be part of the global dialogue & spread the word. 🌍
The Virtual Human Rights Centre is now open for registration! 🖥️👇 Click below to register & access livestreams & debates.
#HumanRights75
We all desire safety, dignity & freedom.
Yet racism, xenophobia & discrimination are thriving — causing untold suffering & denying humans these basic needs.
We need empathy & unity. Respect for fundamental human rights should not be up for debate.
#Act4RightsNow #HumanRights75
Peace must be our primary goal. And human rights offer the steps to achieve it — by addressing grievances, inequalities & exclusion.
Rights are our tools for peace.
#Act4RightsNow #HumanRights75
Beginning now at 10 am (EST)!
Join us in discussing human rights, prevention & peace with:
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk;
UN Peacekeeping Chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix;
United Nations Peacebuilding Elizabeth Spehar and others as part of #humanrights75 .
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