December 14, 2007

NEW YORK – Award-winning human rights videos teaching the contents of the UN United Nations Declaration of Human Rights was the centerpiece at a celebration of Declaration in Manhattan, December 8th.

Youth for Human Rights (YFHR), the international organization which produced the videos, partnered with the International Front for Human Rights, for an evening at the Church of Scientology New York which included poetry, song, a talk by Togo human rights activist Joel Dossa about child trafficking in Africa, as well as the video presentation.

Also present were representatives from the Togo United Nations Association, WAO-Afrique, African Muslim groups, and chapter representatives from YFHR Harlem and HFHR Connecticut.

"The Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations on December 10th, 1948," said John Carmichael, area coordinator for Youth for Human Rights. "Yet it has hardly been implemented around the world, because so few people know its contents. As American writer L. Ron Hubbard pointed out, the first step in making human rights a reality internationally is for people to know what their rights are."

Youth for Human Rights has therefore distributed more than 1.7 million copies of the Declaration in dozens of languages around the world, and produced the public service videos which have aired on more than 3,000 TV stations in 15 lanugages.

The videos can be seen on the YFHR website, http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/.

Church of Scientology New York