December 10 is Human Rights Day.

MMjr just came flying down the stairs to inform me of this.

Here's more information about it:

POVERTY IS A CAUSE AND A PRODUCT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS:

It is probably the gravest human rights challenge in the world. Yet, poverty is still rarely seen through the lens of human rights. Many ingredients go into making poverty, but factors like discrimination, unequal access to resources, and social and cultural stigmatization have always characterized it. These “factors” have another name: the denial of human rights and human dignity.

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

Article 25 (1), Universal Declaration of Human Rights

MORE HERE: http://www.ohchr.org/english/events/day2006/hrd2006.htm