Animation for the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR

October 15th, 2008 • Human Rights

Seth Brau has put together this excellent animation to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the Human Rights Action Center – a group trying to raise awareness of the UDHR.

They say less than 5% of people even know of the existence of the UDHR, the Human Rights Action Center is asking people to ask their governments to print the UDHR in every passport. It’s an interesting idea and one that would raise awareness of human rights generally.

Of the course the UDHR itself has little direct legal effect – though it can be useful when interpreting other human rights instruments – even under international law. Perhaps the next step will be to start promoting the ICCPR/ICESCR, which bind signatories?

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