MONDAY MUSE (10 Dec '07)
HUMAN RIGHTS
Today on Human Rights day, I remember the speech of advocate, Satish Sonak at a
recent human rights workshop! Like a good mirror, it stripped the façade of an
in-dignified world torn by riots, bloodshed and indifference. It is necessary
for us to repeatedly remind ourselves that other human beings deserve the same
dignity that we appropriate, nay grab, for ourselves.
The human rights watch word is 'right to live with dignity'. The marginalised,
the ones who toil, the physically and mentally challenged must have equal claim
on opportunities to learn and earn. Discrimination of all sorts has to be first
unlearnt in our attitudes and then in our approaches.
Ironically, death does not kill the processes of prejudice. We have no respect
for the living. We have no compassion for the dead. The mockery of human rights
continues. We attack their dignity with all the weapons at our command. Our
weapons are religion, caste and regionalism. The ‘right to die with dignity’ is
compromised by our bigotry and intolerance. Rightful demand for
non-discriminatory cemeteries and burial grounds are at best ignored.
Human rights are a much ignored value system in a world that is fuelled by a
malicious hate towards persons who we think are part of the problems facing us.
In fact, we are the problem ourselves. We generate the garbage and hate the
scavenger. We grab the land and get furious when the sons-of-the soil stake
rightful claim to it. We talk about equality irrespective of gender, caste,
class and religion and yet we practice inequality.
The dimensions of progress cannot be exclusive to some and inaccessible to the
others. We are all guilty of not having a guilty conscious. The world continues
to suffer because we are incomplete human beings. Because the one half doesn't
do its human duties, the other half doesn't get human rights. If we embrace our
fundamental human responsibilities, our world will celebrate its human rights!
The right to dignity is not just about permitting free thought and expression
‘Develop new dimensions’ to restore natural Human Rights with compassion!
Regards
Pravin
10 Dec 2007, Goa.
A life coach with a passion to connect people to their potential, Pravin Sabnis
conducts unlearning unlimited workshops for leading corporate and other groups.
The Monday Muse series (since 2004) is dedicated to the annual theme of
JCI-India.
TODAY on Monday 10 December:
RALLY at 3.30 pm at Quepem followed by PUBLIC MEETING to uphold the people's
rights
(called by the Gawda, Kunbi, Velip and Dhangar Federation (GAKUVED)
to observe International HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
On Tuesday, 11 December, 5.30 pm,
Panel discussion on SEZs at the Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Porvorim.
Join hands
with the SEZ Virodhi Manch
to make the Govenment feel the heat
at the PUBLIC MEETING
at the historic Lohia Maidan in Margao
on Friday, 14 December 2007, 4.00 pm
Promote the solidarity against SEZs in Goa!
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