UN Human Rights Day: 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UN Human Rights Day

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70
Let's stand up for equality, justice and human dignity

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This year, Human Rights Day marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that proclaimed the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being -- regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. It is the most translated document in the world, available in more than 500 languages.

International Day for Genocide Prevention and Remembrance: 70th Aninversary of the Genocide Convention

International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime 9 December http://www.un.org/en/events/genocidepreventionday/index.shtml

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly established 9 December as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. The 9th of December is the anniversary of the adoption of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”). This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Convention.

The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, as defined in the Convention, and to commemorate and honour its victims.

In adopting the resolution, without a vote, the 193-member Assembly reiterated the responsibility of each individual State to protect its populations from genocide, which entails the prevention of such a crime, including incitement to it.

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US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women

From the AP. By Mary Hudetz: US doubles tribal funding to fight violence against women.

For decades, tribes largely had been unable to directly access money in a U.S. program aimed at supporting crime victims nationwide — even as federal figures showed more than half of Native American women faced sexual or domestic violence at some point in their lives. On some reservations, Native American women are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average.

Doctoral Student Compiles Database Of Indigenous Women Who've Gone Missing [USA and Canada]

From National Public Radio
Nate Hegyi
Yellowstone Public Radio

A storm rolls in over the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. The clouds are low and dark as distant lightning cracks over a green prairie. Wade Running Crane is starting to get wet.

"This is like a sign from Ashley that she's here," he says of his family friend Ashley Loring.

Ashley's mother, Loxie Loring, is standing next to him.

"She liked this kind of weather," she says. Her daughter also loved riding horses and writing poetry.

Continued at Doctoral Student Compiles Database Of Indigenous Women Who've Gone Missing

Wednesday, 20 August, was the anniversary of Norway's ratification of the ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

This Convention is still the only binding international law instrument in this area. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, the UNDRIP, is generally not considered a binding international legal instrument.

New Book on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

Forthcoming book on the UNDRIP is available for pre-order at $185.00. It will be published by Oxford University Press on 22 April 2018. Subtitled, A Commentary, it is edited by Jessie Hohmann, Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London and
Marc Weller, Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies, University of Cambridge.