For a community of human dignity.

If the rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are only effective for a few people in the world, then they are not truly rights; only a rare and lucky condition that may end at any time.

There is a certain "minimum level" of human rights and dignity that is considered "acceptable" in any particular culture. When that minimum level is high, the rights and dignity of all are high and secure. When the minimum level is low, everyone is at risk of falling to that level.

Raise the floor of human dignity. It must not be acceptable for anyone to live in homelessness, rags, hunger, untreated disease, without free speech or any control over their own lives and the decisions that affect them.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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• Terrorists Are Our Enemy. Muslims Aren't.
• Gay Rights
• Feminism
• Forgotten Fathers
• Free Choice for Both Sides on Abortion

  Question: Would Henry Hyde -- or any other opponent of the right to abortion -- support legislation that would force him or anyone else to donate organs if he/she has a tissue match with a child in life-threatening need? Henry Hyde has the freedom to decide what to do with his body, and so do I.

• Dialogue Versus Polarized Discussion
• Racism and White Privilege
• Human Rights in Literature
• Police the Police

Links

• Sign the Petition to Protect Women's Health
• Program of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) 5-13 September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt (referred to in petition above)

 
• John Pilger: Journalism and Films on Human Rights
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Watch
• Civil Liberties page at About.com
• OneWorld Net News
• Human Rights Library at University of Minnesota
• Human Rights Library at Questia (to read books in full requires paid subscription)
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• Amnesty International
• UN WomenWatch
• Citizen's Initiative on Race and Equality
• Simon Weisenthal Center
• US Committee for Refugees
• Civil Rights Issues in the UK
• Supporting Affirmative Action
• UNPO: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
• Native American Online
• Native Web
• B418: Youth Rights
• Links on Police Misconduct

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Last updated November 30, 2002