United Nations Association of Greater Oklahoma City
United Nations Association of the USA
Greater Oklahoma City Chapter
P.O. Box 60856
Oklahoma City, OK   73146-0856
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Created June 1, 2008
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Human Rights Video Collection
in cooperation with the Metropolitan Library System
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About the Collection
UNA-OKC is pleased to announce this new program for
teachers, students, community group leaders and all those
who wish to learn more about, explore, and discuss the
critical human rights issues that are impacting our world.  
October, 2007:
Lowell Adams
(standing), Bob Cox,
and Janet Hall
examine one of the
DVD's in the new
UNA-OKC Human
Rights Video
Collection.
Our Advisors
Janet Hall
Secondary Education
Advisor
Janet Hall is a
secondary public
school teacher in the
Oklahoma City area.  
She currently teaches
7th grade World
Geography and
secondary English
Language Learners,
and is the social
studies chairperson
for her middle school.  
She holds an M.A. in
International Affairs
and an M.Ed. with a
concentration in
Multicultural
Education.  
Dr. Eric Heinze
Humanities Advisor
Eric Heinze is a faculty
member at the
University of
Oklahoma,
Department of Political
Science and School of
International and Area
Studies.  He teaches
courses on general
international relations,
international law,
international relations
theory, and
international human
rights.  Dr. Heinze
conducts research on
the tension between
human rights and the
US war on terrorism,
especially the use of
military force abroad.
More Online Resources:
30 Human Rights in 30 Seconds
“Human rights education is itself a fundamental human
right as well as a responsibility.  The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) obligates every
individual and institution of society to ‘strive by
teaching and [through] education to promote respect
for these rights and freedoms.’"

--The UN Works
Learn what everyone's rights are through stunning visual stories. Youth for
Human Rights International has created 30 powerful public service
announcements to educate and inspire the world.  View them here:
Youth for Human Rights
www.youthforhumanrights.org
What are Human Rights?
A series of Public Service Announcements,
available for download, from Youth for
Human Rights International.
Human Rights: The Foundation of Freedom
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights… stands as a landmark achievement in
the history of human liberty.
-- President George W. Bush  

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round.
Human rights invented America.
-- President Jimmy Carter

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- Thomas Jefferson

                             The Earth is the mother of all people and all people should have
                            equal rights upon it.
                            -- Chief Joseph

                            In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948)
                            in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to
                            all human beings.
                            -- Pope John XXIII

The world does not need a war against ‘terrorism’, it needs a culture of peace
based on human rights for all.
-- Irene Khan

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer,
teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with
it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights…. Make a career
of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human
rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater
nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
-- Bob Marley

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no
such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old
dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to
the ant heap of totalitarianism.
-- Ronald Reagan

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before
lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.
-- Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

                         Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small
                        places, close to home…. Unless these rights have meaning there,
                        they have little meaning anywhere.
                        -- Eleanor Roosevelt

                        No man is above the law and no man below it.  
                       -- Theodore Roosevelt

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone.
And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and
humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the
victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
-- Elie Wiesel

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive.
-- Simon Wiesenthal



More quotes here:
http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/humanrights-quotes.htm
Help
Oklahoma City
Celebrate the
60th Anniversary
of the
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights

December 10, 2008
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feedback on the
“What’s Going
On?” series.  
Review a video.  
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on our "Teaching
Global" blog.  

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