Comments on: Bloggers Unite - Stop Sex Slavery

By: Carly, Every Human Has Rights campaign team

Carly, Every Human Has Rights campaign team — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:54:59 +0000

It’s great to see human rights getting coverage in the blogosphere.

Last summer Nelson Mandela brought a group of really dedicated individuals together - ex heads of state and Nobel laureates - to work on solving global issues. His hope for the new group, The Elders, is for them to “speak freely and boldly, working both publicly and behind the scenes on whatever actions need to be taken”. They’re working on topics ranging from the crisis in Zimbabwe to rising food costs and they want your help.

There are so many issues in dire need of attention right now, but human rights ties them all together. The Elders launched the Every Human Has Rights campaign to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and celebrate human rights as that common thread that weaves our struggles and our victories together.

We’re asking the blogosphere to take part. Would you be willing to add a link from your page to the Every Human Has Rights website? We also have badges and flash widgets so bloggers can show support for the campaign.

We’re trying to get as many people as possible to sign a personal pledge to uphold the principles of the Universal Declaration. We have action partners to help people get more involved. We have tools so people can bring the ‘rights perspective’ to their own organization’s events. We’re doing everything we can to bring people together to stand up for human rights.

We need bloggers. We need you. Please join our effort.

All the best,

Carly Scott
Every Human Has Rights,
campaign team
http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org

By: aeye

aeye — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:06:29 +0000

Great post and good links. I also wrote about modern slavery. I think it is absolutely deplorable that it still happens. In 2008. But I agree with Cathy that we can make a difference.

aeyes last blog post..Reasons I can’t sleep.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:30:15 +0000

That is just straight up cruelty and a complete violation of human rights. People who are associated with such trades really do not deserve to be in am amongest society. What they do not only destroys the lives of their captives but that of their families and also the people who chose to pay to have sex with these people (they are losing a big part of their soul).
I just don’t know how people can go to sleep at night knowing that they are imprisoning people and subjecting them to a life that is dangerous and detrimental to their health and well being.
I feel sick!!! But you do have to let stuff like this be known.

Gerris last blog post..Post Election Violence in Zimbabwe

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:18:44 +0000

Yes, the world is full of treachery, evil, meanness, greed. But it’s also full of people like us, people who respond to Bloggers Unite. We are the hope of the future. We are the ones saying, “YOU CANNOT CONTINUE DOING THIS! WE SEE YOU AND WE WON’T ALLOW IT!”

A lesson I learned as a hippie in the 60’s: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop

By: CyberCelt

CyberCelt — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:19 +0000

That is awful. The world never seems to run out of ways of oppression. I have posted 4 posts for Bloggers Unite today and I find myself with soul-sickness.

CyberCelts last blog post..Bloggers Unite : FGM

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:46:39 +0000

Things like this are reasons for “wrath of God.” Humans are so evil… what goes ’round comes ’round.

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