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Report from COP 24 Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland

Report from COP 24 Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland
By Bruce Knotts
December 12, 2018
A tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: No Nationalism, No Globalism, only Humanitarianism

A tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: No Nationalism, No Globalism, only Humanitarianism
By Joanne Dufour
On December 10th we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt and her team of international scholars with differing legal and social backgrounds, whose work was unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948 and subsequently adopted by all future UN member states.
Creating and Working Towards Justice on Human Rights Day

Creating and Working Towards Justice on Human Rights Day
By Allison Hess
At a conference in Taiwan last week, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office Director Bruce Knotts spoke of threats to human rights. In his address at the International Forum for Freedom and Democracy in Taipei, he affirmed that human rights must never be put to a vote as had happened in Taiwan earlier that week.