Human rights

This topic speaks about human rights, what it is, how human rights are related to us and how to protect them

Did you know that …

… Universal Declaration of Human Rights is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the most translated book in the world?
… the most common violation of human rights is insufficient protection of rights of women and girls?
… 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse and neglect?
… approximately 27 million people are currently enslaved in the human trafficking trade around the world?
… more than 300,000 children under the age of 18 are being exploited as child soldiers in armed conflicts worldwide?
… even though 2/3 of the world has abolished the death penalty, 1,591 people were knowingly executed in 2006 alone? While the real figures of executions are likely much higher, 91 percent of these penalties took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, and the United States.
… millions of people are internally and externally displaced in regions like Darfur where ethnic cleansing and violent conflict over land and resources occurs? The displaced are forced to rely on humanitarian relief. Humanitarian workers are often kidnapped and attacked, and relief trucks are hijacked and looted.
… armed conflict has killed 2 million children, disabled 4 to 5 million, left 12 million homeless, and orphaned more than 1 million in the past decade?
… there are approximately 246 million child laborers worldwide?
… throughout history, women have been denied the knowledge, means, and freedom to act in the best interest of themselves and their children?
… more than 1 million children, mostly girls, are forced into prostitution every year (2007)?
… disabled persons constitute ten per cent of the world’s population?
… 87 percent of the indigenous people in Guatemala are poor, and more than half live in extreme poverty?
Indigenous people: Challenges facing the international community
… women comprise 70% of the world's poor?
Information Kit, Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 1997-2006, UNDP
… the majority of the world's women cannot own, inherit, or control property, land, and wealth on an equal basis with men?