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HUMAN
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Respect for human rights is essential to just about every social priority, including global security, economic development, environmental protection, and public health. Investing in human rights is critical to making our world a better place.

Human Rights are laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and enshrined in international law, meaning all governments have a legal duty to respect them. We are all entitled to these rights, including free speech, peaceful protest and fair trials, as well as the rights to life, health and education, among others.

Human Rights Watch is one of the leading independent organizations dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to:

  • - Prevent discrimination
  • - Uphold fundamental freedoms
  • - Protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime
  • - And bring offenders to justice.
We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.

CALL TO ACTION:

Tell us what it means to be
"human"!

On October 10th, Human Rights Watch asks you to help us put a face to the human rights issue that confront us. Take the day to reflect on what human rights mean to you, and to society in general, and make a video that expresses your vision. Footage that you create will potentially be used in a feature film, as well as a short film created for Human Rights Watch and will live in perpetuity on One Day in Earth's global archive.

Guidelines

  1. Consider the question: what makes us human? Is it your ability to express yourself? To make decisions? To love? To vote? To go to school? To ask officials for help without paying a bribe, regardless of your ethnic group or religion? To express your gender or sexual orientation freely? What's most important to you?
  2. Answer this question to camera. Consider placing yourself in a location relevant to your answer.
  3. Feel free to go further. Visually document the basic human rights that you enjoy, or the human rights that are being denied to you, or to others. Seek out images or interviews related to the topic of human rights.
  4. Learn more about human rights-visit us at www.hrw.org, read the
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights and share the information with your friends.
  5. When you upload your video please be sure to tag it "HRW".
To collaborate beforehand join the Human Rights Watch group.

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Disclaimer: Human Rights Watch is partnering with One Day on Earth, a documentary and new media project where participants would simultaneously film their human experience over a 24-hour period of October 10th, 2010 (10.10.10). Human Rights Watch does not endorse nor support any content, including visuals, opinions and music, of the videos on this website or in any web space where these videos may be displayed. These videos do not represent the views of Human Rights Watch.

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