What Is Human Rights Day On December 10?

Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948, post-World War II. This statehood gave the wandering Jews scattered across the face of the Earth a place to call home. Seven months later, the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.

Since WWI was the War to End All Wars, this declaration seemed a long time in development - and is still broken every day on Earth, in the Middle East and everywhere. Statehood of a nation and a Declaration did not eradicate the global abuse of human rights.

I hope that both events have honored the memories of the Jews, Blacks, and LGBTQ persons that were abused, mutilated, and killed in the Holocaust (and afterward persecuted during the Cold War in America). They were all humans.

Jews, Blacks, and LGBTQ persons -- All three groups suffered, although it is the Jewish people that made the largest and most highlighted group in classrooms later; and Blacks make up the least highlighted in classrooms until the 1970s. Blacks have not been as systematically eliminated as were the Jews, but they have been eliminated from some communities in the recent past as well as during WWII.

All three groups were declared non-human on some level by the Third Reich.

Today, Aboriginals on all continents are considered, by some portion of the "majority" populations, as non-human. In my view, all maltreatment is part of one large continuing Holocaust.

• In North Korea, the general populace is forced to limit food intake to just one meager meal of almost inedible refuse per day. They make a gruel from ground up corn cobs, for example, often mixed with roots that are actually poisonous and cause blindness. Some residents run away to Northern China. Other citizens join the military of this nation that many feel is terrorist, solely in order to be able to eat. What must they do to others in order to remain in the military? Atrocities are listed in The Ginseng Hunter.
• In Somalia, men, women, and children that declare themselves Christians are answered with the cutting off of their arms and enslavement.
• South Sudan broke away from Sudan to form its own nation and escape abuses.
• In Abu Graib, a microscopic minority of the assigned US military personnel orchestrated illegal and inhuman abuse and foolishness against Middle Easterners [Documentary].
• In China, persons that are discovered to be Christians are forced into unpaid slavery to make our tiny twinkling Christmas light strings by hand without tools for 14 hours per day.
• In USA,bullying in some schools goes unaddressed and children and youth die because of it, either by murder or by suicide. My friend Sean H. Robertson (Detroit 187) donates proceeds from his books to the Suicide Prevention Hot Line so that it may continue help youth that run to thoughts of suicide because of bullying, eating disorders, harassment over LGBTQ identity, and many other issues.
• Improving its law enforcement activities since the data emerged earlier in 2010, Toledo Ohio has been in the number one slot for human trafficking worldwide, because criminals in the city gathered and provided the largest numbers of human fodder to other global cities [Toledo information].
• Ethnic and Faith-difference issues still abound in some countries, leading to violence, and erupt in civil wars..

Please list in the Comments section below, any programs and projects you know that improve Human Rights anywhere in the world and any situations of infraction that need to be addressed. Tell us how you celebrate Human Rights Day.

Please remember Human Rights not only on December 10, but every day.