UN Human Rights Day – On 10 December 1948 the 1948 the United Nations Normal Meeting adopted the Common Declaration of Human Rights, and December tenth is now celebrated world wide as Human Rights Day.
The theme for the day in 2016 was ‘Arise for somebody’s rights at the moment’ and there have been various protests in London which did simply that. This yr will mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the declaration and it appears unlikely that the UK authorities will probably be doing a lot celebration because it begins to attempt to push by way of a regulation to stop asylum seekers from asserting their human rights.
Silent Chain for Europe – Previous Palace Yard, Westminster
Campaigners linked arms in silent chains in protest reverse parliament and elsewhere in different cities and cities.
They are saying Brexit threatens our human rights together with employees rights to paid holidays, maternity go away and honest therapy at work, the fitting of free motion round Europe, to dwell within the EU and for EU residents to dwell right here, incapacity rights and the fitting to freedom from discrimination.
Extra footage at Silent Chain for Europe.
BBC censors jail struggles – Broadcasting Home
A Human Rights day protest outdoors the BBC highlighted the failure of the organisation to report on individuals wrongly held in jail in some international locations world wide.
They are saying the BBC as an establishment largely or completely ignores wrongful imprisonment in Northern Eire, together with the frame-up of the Craigavon 2 and the persevering with internment of Tony Taylor for authorized political actions.
The Craigavon 2, John Paul Wootton and Brendan McConville, have been in jail since March 2009 and have been convicted for the killing of police officer Stephen Carroll by a Diplock court docket and not using a jury on the premise of proof which has been described as ludicrous. An attraction was dismissed in 2014 and in the beginning of 2023 Northern Eire’s The Sunday Life newspaper revealed that MI5 had arrange and operated what presupposed to be a human rights organisation however was really working to subvert the marketing campaign for his or her launch.
Different instances the say the BBC constantly fails to report embrace the imprisonment of Mumia Abu Jamal on Demise Row within the USA, Palestinians held in Israeli jails and victims of Erdogan’s purge in Turkey.
Balochs UN Human Rights Day protest – Downing St
Individuals from Balochistan in West Pakistan referred to as on Theresa Might to talk up for the Baloch individuals and their freedom towards the Pakistan regime which they declare has a coverage of genocide towards the Baloch individuals and has killed hundreds of Baloch activists and kidnapped greater than 25,000 of them.
When Pakistan was arrange in 1947, the dominion of Balochistan grew to become part of it with some autonomy however a yr later was merged with Pakistan. Since then numerous political and army separatists have emerged within the space which additionally contains a part of neighbouring Iran.
Balochs UN Human Rights Day protest
Human Rights Day name shut Guantanamo – Downing St
Additionally at Downing Avenue the Guantanamo Justice Marketing campaign held a rally calling for an finish to torture, the closure of Guantanamo and an finish to British complicity in torture.
Audio system on the rally included Lewes Amnesty Group Chair Sara Birch, Journalist and author Victoria Brittain and Cease the Warfare convenor Lindsey German. Mizan the Poet gave a powerful efficiency of his poem ‘1984’ towards the federal government’s anti-Muslim ‘Stop’ counter extremism technique.
Extra footage at Human Rights Day name shut Guantanamo
Save Yazidi girls and ladies – Westminster
A small group of girls protesters from WAVE (Girls’s Motion towards Violent Extremism) held placards in Parliament Sq. earlier than coming to protest at Downing St calling for assist for the Yazidi girls who have been focused and captured by ISIS (Da’esh) in Iraq.
ISIS regard the Yazidi as satan worshippers and subjected their girls to bodily and sexual violence, together with systematic rape and intercourse slavery. The UN in 2014 reported that greater than 5000 Yazidis had been murdered and 5-7,000 kidnapped. Over 3,400 are believed to be nonetheless held.
Though in 2014 the UK authorities in 2014 supplied some emergency support to those that escaped to a refugee camp, few if any have been given asylum right here. The Unbiased reported in 2018 that “some Yazidis within the UK are having their asylum denied.” When SNP Brendan O’Hara requested a query in Parliament in 2022 on what number of Yazidi refugees have been resettled within the UK since 2014 he was merely informed that the Dwelling Workplace retains no data of the spiritual or ethnic background of refugees. Others put the determine at near zero.
Not every part I photographed in London on tenth December was associated to Human Rights Day. I additionally discovered a few rhinos and plenty of extra Santas. You may see them on My London Diary.
Save the Rhino
London Santacon 201
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