EQUALSHOT

strengthening the voice of the nonprofit community

December 10 is International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the first global expression of the rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.   It was on that day in 1948, with Eleanor Roosevelt front and center, that the United Nations officially adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

0 COMMENTS

A few years ago, I worked on an op-ed with the human rights activist Rafael Marques about abuses against local populations in Angola carried out on behalf of large international diamond corporations. The Wall Street Journal just helped take this a step further, exploring the role of the Angolan military in these abuses. In September, to name one instance, Angolan soldiers buried 45 miners alive.

0 COMMENTS