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NGO Oral Statements on Traditional Values to the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee |
Amnesty International
At the October 2010 seminar on “traditional values and human rights”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said that there are values that underpin human rights and these are “some most basic markers of humanity, those fundamental, irreducible, … universal values that transcend geography and know no barriers of culture or gender, class or language.” Values of dignity, freedom and equality often mark a “tradition of resistance” – resistance to abuse of power, injustice and lack of accountability.
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A call to action: Please mobilise the membership to sign the attached petition |
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Dear Partners,
Every day in the media, there are reports on poverty, communities striking for lack of service delivery and needs that are not met. The struggle for rights has become a daily phenomenon. Where adults and youth struggle for employment, where children battle to access education, where family life has become a struggle for survival. Where rights to access to health, social security housing, water and sanitation has become a barrier to an adequate standard of living.
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The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) Press Release |
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PRESS RELEASE
IMMEDIATE ISSUE
23 AUGUST 2011
The much anticipated TRI CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL is coming exclusivley to select Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau theatres this September!
The Tri Continental Film Festival (TCFF) is South Africa’s only dedicated human rights film event and consists of films that promote democratisation, deepens understanding, and affords those marginalised a substantive voice, proving to be more vital than ever in our rapidly changing world.
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 Over the next six years – at least – Amnesty International will work to shift the balance of power together with those who have been so far denied a say as they tell their own stories and strive to engage in the processes that determine their own future.
Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity campaign will initially focus on a few key areas and patterns of human rights abuse which show particularly sharply the interplay of deprivation, insecurity, exclusion and voices ignored. The overall goal is to end the human rights violations that keep people poor. |
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