60 Years of the Declarion of Universal Human Rights

By Adam Valvasori - Values Man

Article 26: Everyone has the right to education.

















Article 27: Everyone has the right to cultural life.

















These are just two of the four brilliant posters we are rotating in our window between now and Christmas supplied by Amnesty International Australia. If you're not sure what they are on about. It's important you know the basics... I've carefully snipped this from Wikipedia:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris). The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the "Most Translated Document" in the world. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws.

So it's basically the most important document ever created that you will ever read. Read the whole declaration here.

The Body Shop has been 'going steady' with Amnesty International for a long time. In teen years it's probably considered a life time. I know no one talks like that any more... sometimes you just have to indulge me. So anyway you can help everyone in the world gets to enjoy their universal human rights by buying your Christmas Cards at The Body Shop. 100% of the profits go to Amnesty International.

On a kind of side note:

Congratulations to Barack Obama on becoming the next President of the United States and Good Luck! (you're going to need it). One of the first things he's promised to tackle is terrorism. Amnesty International has made his job easier by producing this human rights check list - USA: Counter Terror with Justice. They include closing Guantánamo Bay and eradicating their use of torture tactics.

We hope they're all on the top of his 'things to do' list.