Get ready to Go Barefoot for Human Rights on International Human Rights Day! This year the organisation ‘Every Human Has Rights’ is asking you to lose your shoes for human rights – to think about people who barely have food to put on their table let alone shoes to put on their feet.
International Human Rights day on the 10th of December 2010 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This unique declaration, supported by the countries within the UN, sets out 30 common standards that all human beings – whoever they are and wherever they are – should have the right to. ‘Every Human Has Rights’ is trying to put Human Rights day on the map by building a community of people who will take a simple action on the day and throughout the year.
1.4 billion people are still living in extreme poverty, their right to a healthy living free from want being denied. By going barefoot against poverty, you are taking a first step for human rights – thinking about people who barely have food to put on their table, let alone shoes to put on their feet.
The Barefoot Campaign is coordinated by Every Human Has Rights but it’s a platform for anyone to use to help promote human rights issues. You can go barefoot for education, for peace, for the rights of indigenous people and much more.
