There are many opportunities for you to support this vital campaign to educate youth about Human Rights.
1. Become a Foundation member.
2. Become a Foundation Volunteer.
3. Make a donation to support our work.
4. Learn the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
5. Get your copy of one of the booklets, Know Your Human Rights, or What are Human Rights? (for children). The booklets are also available online here.
6. Read the booklets.
7. Distribute copies in your area.
8. Hold a human rights fundraising drive. Use the money to reprint the booklets for distribution in your area.
9. Support a human rights organization such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or a local group.
10. Write to papers on human rights issues.
11. Join an anti-slavery group that combats the growing, illegal trade in human trafficking (Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude....)
12. Support the work of human rights organizations that campaign against inhumane treatment of individuals in psychiatric institutions (Article 5 No one shall be subjected to ... cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.)
13. If you are a member of a church, encourage interfaith dialogue with other churches. (Article 18 ... the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.)
14. Speak out, in local forums or by writing your newspaper or elected representatives, on behalf of the voices of minorities. (Article 19 ... the right to freedom of opinion and expression.)
15. Discourage attempts to deny peaceful groups their right to assembly (Article 20 ... the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.)
16. Encourage others to vote at local and national elections and to take part in public affairs. (Article 21 ...the right to take part in the government of [ones] country.)
17. Write your elected representative and ask him or her to support legislation mandating equal treatment in the workplace, if current laws are inequitable. (Article 23 of the Declaration ...the right to... just and favorable conditions of work.)
18. Become a member of a group that seeks to alleviate poverty in the world (Article 25 ... the right to a standard of living adequate for the health of himself and his family....)
19. Take an active interest in the education of your children by attending parent-teacher events at your school (Article 26 (1) ... the right to education.)
20. Support the right of parents to send their children to the school of their choice (Article 26 (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.)
21. Join an association that promotes the arts (Article 27 the right freely to... enjoy the arts.)
22. Do at least one of the above and encourage your friends and family to do the same. (Article 29 everyone has duties to the community.
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