Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December meant to draw attention to and raise awareness about 'inalienable rights which everyone is 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.'
Some salient feature of this year's observance as advocated by the UN
Theme: Recover Better - Stand Up for Human Rights
Focus: Building back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts by addressing the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination.
Message: Urged to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity.
Generic call to action: “Stand Up for Human rights” to bolster transformative action and showcase practical and inspirational examples that can contribute to recovering better and fostering more resilient and just societies.
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