Afghans vote amid rocket attacks & violence

Afghans vote amid rocket attacks & violence:
KABUL (Agencies) – Afghans braved deadly Taliban attacks to vote for a new parliament Saturday, as officials said that the violence could keep the turnout at about 40 per cent, slightly up on last year’s presidential poll, but widely reported voting fraud threatened to undermine the result and the government’s credibility.
Complaints of irregularities emerged, following UN and US warnings that security and fraud were concerns in the second parliamentary vote since the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban.

Fresh protests rock IHK as death toll hits 102

SRINAGAR (AFP) – Police fired on fresh anti-India demonstrations in Held Kashmir on Saturday, killing three protesters and bringing the number of civilian deaths in an unprecedented wave of unrest to 102.
The new deaths came as thousands of Kashmiris poured onto the streets shouting “Go back India” and “We want freedom” as New Delhi grappled to find ways to end the escalating pro-independence demonstrations.
Women and children joined young men staging protests, defying curfews imposed across the mainly Muslim region to contain the spiralling unrest.

Champions of Human Rights

27 million people live in slavery—more than twice the number during the peak of the slave trade. And more than a billion adults are unable to read. Given the magnitude of human rights violations—and those listed in the Human Rights Abuses section of this website are only a glimpse of the full picture—it is not surprising that by survey 90 percent of people are unable to name more than 3 of their 30 rights. Who, then, with so many unaware of their most basic rights, will make sure that human rights are promoted, protected and become a reality?
To answer that question, we can draw inspiration from those who made a difference and helped create the human rights we have today. These humanitarians stood up for human rights because they recognized that peace and progress can never be achieved without them. Each, in a significant way, changed the world.
Martin Luther King, Jr., when championing the rights of people of color in the United States in the 1960s, declared, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
The great advocate of peaceful resistance to oppression, Mahatma Gandhi, described nonviolence as “the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
Thomas Jefferson, author of the American Declaration of Independence, declared that “The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.”
There are those who, through thought and action, have made a difference and changed our world. Among them are the following humanitarians, each a powerful and effective advocate and each an inspiration to all who today dedicate themselves to the cause of universal rights:

United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Introduction
The United Nations (UN) came into being in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II.
The stated purpose of the UN is to bring peace to all nations of the world. After World War II, a committee of persons headed by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote a special document which “declares” the rights that everyone in the entire world should have—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today there are 192 member states of the UN, all of whom have signed on in agreement with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

What Are Human Rights?

Human Rights Defined

While some dictionaries define the word right as “a privilege,” when used in the context of “human rights,” we are talking about something more basic.*
Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of being human. These are called “human rights” rather than a privilege (which can be taken away at someone’s whim).
They are “rights” because they are things you are allowed to be, to do or to have. These rights are there for your protection against people who might want to harm or hurt you. They are also there to help us get along with each other and live in peace.
Many people know something about their rights. Generally they know they have the right to food and a safe place to stay. They know they have a right to be paid for the work they do. But there are many other rights.
When human rights are not well known by people, abuses such as discrimination, intolerance, injustice, oppression and slavery can arise.

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