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Hello, fellow human rights enthusiasts! We're three months away from the winter solstice, which has long since been a time for loving, giving, and charity in several religions the world over. That's right, I'm talking about December! The mes of Christmas, Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Al Hijra, Kwanzaa, Zarathosht Diso, Ashura-- tu know!

I strive to think of a religion that doesn't have a holiday in December. Hinduism doesn't have one this year, but soon enough, Diwali, the Festival of Lights, will be in December again, and then it will.

At any rate, humanitarians have a very important día in December as well-- December 10th, which is the International Human Rights Day. This año will mark the 61st anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights por the United Nations.

So what better mes to celebrate the rights of our fellow human beings? December is a time for giving-- so let's give a part of ourselves to raising awareness for people who have had their rights suppressed o taken away completely.

This year, my main focus is involvement. Last year, it was a personal project, and I did the majority of it on my own because, frankly, I didn't have many ideas. Though I wanted to include others, I wasn't sure how, and I wasn't sure how many people would participate. As a result, all that we got was the HRAM 2008 link. Which is pretty awesome, but very long, especially if tu didn't read it every day. I doubt anyone will read the whole thing now, and that's sad.

So I guess I have two goals for this year-- Involve más people, and keep the Advent Calendar briefer. I'm even considering doing a video calendar every day, counting down, with a new HR issue. I think that will be briefer, and más fun than lectura a lista of information and other stuff.

Also-- the Advent Calendar will NOT just be me. It'll be all of you, contributing your thoughts, enlaces and issues. At least, that's what I hope. But we'll have más on that later.

This articulo is supposed to serve as a kind of "Home Base" for HRAM 2009. It will be the index of all other enlaces related to HRAM 2009, so if tu want to keep them close at hand, I'd suggest bookmarking this article, at least until January.

Important enlaces for HRAM 2009

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So there are your links. What are tu waiting for? Go on and get started!
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Many young women in South East Asia (and in many other parts of the world) are forced into sexual prostitution/slavery. This is the story of one of these girls -- and what one organization is doing to help make a difference.
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Source: Wolfgang Ammer of Austria
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Hi there, and first of all, thank tu all for participating in Fanpop's Human Rights Awareness Month. HRAM was declared back in November of this año and requested that everyone who participates link for the mes of December to help spread Human Rights Awareness.

In addition to icono changes, I have created the Human Rights Advent Calendar, which will be in the form of this soapbox. Every day, throughout the mes of December, I will add holiday themed Human Rights content to this spot and link to it in this article. In addition to that, I will also release one Human Rights Fact and one Human...
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Source: Heiko Sakarai of Germany
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Source: TheHungerSite.Com
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Source: Serguei Goizauskas (Serguei) of France
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Listening to the Instant Karma CD, I started thinking about Darfur and how there were all kinds of Sudanese refugees all over Egypt, having been expelled from their country o left it willingly for a variety of different reasons. I remember, a friend of mine went down to help them learn English every weekend as one of her many community service projects. And then that reminded me of going down to Mokattam to see the orphanage.

Mokattam, colloquially called “Garbage City” por everyone from residents of Mokattam to tour guides, is a place past the Cairo citadel where there are literally piles...
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Source: Dusan Petricic of Canada
After my last article, and the discussion going on over at the link, I've been thinking a lot about the rights of a child, o a fetus as the case may be.

The phrase in the UN Declaration of Human Rights is “All human beings are born free and equal,” a modern rephrasing of the US Declaration of Independence’s “All men are created equal.” But what does the phrase “everyone” o “all human beings” entail? Does it really mean everyone? Immanuel Wallerstein points out the problems with being so absolute:

“… It is almost universally agreed that an infant does not have these rights,...
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Source: Finn Graff of Norway