Human Rights and Dignity

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Organizers: Dignity International, Kenya Human Rights Commission, Equal Rights, BEACON

Participants: over 1000

Key Speakers:Shirin, Mary Robinson, Nora de Cortinas.

Summary of Issues.

Human rights is the search for dignity. a people who live in poverty have no experience of dignity. Poverty is therefore a violation of human Tights.

There are frameworks in the forum of UN instruments and various regional and local chapters which bind governments to steer towards the realization of human dignity. activists need not only remind governments on this obligation but should go the extra mile to demand governments to respect their obligation towards a realization of human dignity for their citizen and the world community as a whole.

Not only governments violate the rights of citizens . in developing countries multinational corporations who are more powerful than governments often manipulate governments to pass policies which violates the rights of citizens.

Recommendations:

We need a world where everyone is economically pro-active, a world where everyone is socially inclusive and a world of unity and cultural diversity.

For more information contact: Deborah Gathu and Zaynah Khanbhai mazinst@mitsuminet.com

Report by Loum Godfrey and Nabititto Sharon Alice