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Rallies Mark International Human Rights Day

HeadlineDec 11, 2006

On Sunday, rallies were held around the world to mark International Human Rights Day. At the United Nations, Human Rights High Commissioner Louise Arbour said that poverty should be considered a violation of human rights.

Louise Arbour: “In the Western world, we tend to think of human rights mostly as civil liberties, civil and political rights, at best a nondiscrimination. But there’s a lot to it. Civil rights are one aspect, but economic and social rights are also grounded in a kind of Roosevelt vision of freedom from fear, but also freedom from want. And poverty, I think, is both a consequence and a cause of very, very severe violations of human rights.”

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