Signatures for Human Rights Education

Youth for Human Rights gathered over 1,000 signatures, Florida at the weekend as part of a three-day human rights “Signa Thon” with the objective of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the classroom Florida’s taught at primary, middle and high schools.

Tampa Bay – February 22, 2010 – On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a solution never experienced the horrors of World War II. At that time, the United Nations invited all member states on the text of the statement to disclose “because it is widely distributed, read and interpreted mainly in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction as to the state political jurisdictions.”

But 60 years later, all 30 human rights after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a compulsory subject in schools in Florida, the United States or most countries in the world.

“Students spend years in school learning about the wars and who won it, but do not know the solution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” said Dustin McGahee, president of Youth for Human Rights, and high school students in Florida. “Human rights are the first step towards a part of everyday life.”

In Florida, human rights, creates new generation of programs, but the standards of more to learn not to pass for human rights, to 12.9 degrees in the U.S. government class, and even then, students need only “identify examples of human rights policy of the United States, such as the Bill of Rights, which means the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still not a prerequisite for learning.

Fifteen years of Montana Logan, who has collected hundreds of signatures, noted: “Many people I do not even speak, there is a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or what their human rights.”

Youth for Human Rights teaches youth about human rights within and outside the classroom, they are advocates of peace and tolerance. Within the class they are teaching materials produced in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Rights of the Scientology Church was born. Designed around the theme of human rights in all media formats appropriate age groups present, the materials, “History of Human Rights”, a documentary video describing the history of human rights throughout the ages, brochures, public service announcements that support for youth and adult education in the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and teaching a student handbook, the kit Activities include manual and the teacher in the classroom.