All Women To Become Mentors Of Human Rights As A Way Of Life
By People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning
08 March, 2013
Countercurrents.org
Learning and integrating the meaning of human rights in our lives for the future of humanity - Closing the Gap of Dignity! --The gap of unfulfilled dignity.
The most important initiative/challenge for the 21st century is for all women and men, youth and children to learn, know and own human rights as a way of life, so as to plan and carry out our lives guided by the holistic, comprehensive, interconnected and interrelated world view that is human rights, giving strength and richness to all cultures and religions… to all human hopes and aspirations…-- attempting to break through the vicious cycle of humiliation… --away from the three “P”s Power, Patriarchy, and Politics
To attain a meaningful economic and social transformation…--to achieve full equality for all without any forms discrimination, we must make human rights a counter-power by adopting positive, creative choices and by giving real power to human rights. And as we learn to discover the differences between symptoms and causes of inequality, joining in systemic analysis about an overarching patriarchal system in which we all participate, we will change the lives of all women and men, girls an boys. .
Guided by the extraordinary vision and practical roadmap offered by the human rights framework…--applying it to our own ways of life, women must become the world’s mentors and join in organizing human rights cities…--shining the light on the new journey we should all embark on…--fostering a new future, of re-imagining, re-casting and re-defining the ultimate sense our lives for which we have no other option!
Indeed, the most important challenge for humanity in the 21st Century is learning and integrating the message, promise and dream of human rights as a way of living and belonging in community, in dignity with others. Human Rights as our HOME!!
We must recognize the humanity of others as our own!! We must recognize women as full human beings with undeniable human rights!!. We must redirect our ways to effectively move horizontally to reach new horizons, achieving new dreams, new hopes, using an altogether new language.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Human Rights Covenants and conventions are the most important promise for the 21st century. We must plan and act guided by this promise to de-facto celebrate our dignity and genuine equality wherever and whoever we are. We must never again exchange our equality for survival and abide by the injustices some call “justice”. We must close the gap of dignity in a world that in 110 years has grown from one to seven billion people and add this indispensable vision to whatever life course each of us chooses to abide by, to whatever historic memories guide our desires, to whatever culture gives us a sense of security and belonging.
Human rights close all gaps of unfulfilled dignity. Human rights are about inclusion, they extricate exclusion…-- it is a powerful tool to build trust and respect. We must reinvent our lives while remembering our past. We must add a new powerful link to our historic memory and raise human rights to the level of a veritable way of life.
No one should be left behind, as women --half of humanity and an acknowledged source of moral authority—we must assume the day-to-day mentoring of others integrating the vision and mission of human rights as a world view and a guide to life. A covenant must be made, one that assures that the sanctity of life will never be desecrated or stepped as we move from charity to dignity!
This step-by-step process of women mentoring communities…--women and men participating as equals in making the decisions that determine our future... --guided by human rights as a way of life is the most important forward-looking initiative of the 21st century: In five years all women to be HUMAN RIGHTS MENTORS!!!
Prepared by: PDHRE, People’s Movement for Human Rights Learning
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