International Human Rights Day

Did you know that today is Human Rights Day?

The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major preoccupation for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization's founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should never be allowed to recur.

Respect for human rights and human dignity "is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world", the General Assembly declared three years later in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, all States and interested organizations were invited by the General Assembly to observe 10 December as Human Rights Day (resolution 423(V)).

The Day marks the anniversary of the Assembly's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Over the years, a whole network of human rights instruments and mechanisms has been developed to ensure the primacy of human rights and to confront human rights violations wherever they occur.

I have a problem with the United Nations taking a holier than thou stance on Human Rights.

I think it's fair to call it hypocritical.

Read about the corrupt, impotent, terrorist-appeasing, genocide-denying, anti-Semitic organization here and here and here and here.

Here's what the U.S. Department of State has to say about Human Rights Day:

Today marks the 59th Anniversary of the adoption of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that affirms the inherent rights of people everywhere and enshrines basic freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, association, and belief.

As we join men and women around the globe in observing International Human Rights Day and Week, we recognize the noble work of human rights defenders who risk harassment, beatings, arrest and even death for seeking to secure the rights of their fellow citizens. While we applaud the hard-won gains for human rights and democratic government that have been made in recent decades, we are sobered by the fact that there remain governments that respond to growing demands for personal and democratic rights by oppressing non-governmental organizations and others who peacefully advocate for them.

The United States stands in solidarity with the brave men and women across the globe who work to defend human dignity and advance the cause of freedom.

I think it's appropriate to honor our military men and women, past and present, for their service in advancing the cause of freedom.

The American military has done more to bring human rights to the oppressed than any other body in the history of the world.

Wouldn't it be nice if the world would pause today to recognize that fact?