International Human Rights Summit in Geneva

Attended by animal rights advocates, officials, adept band and NGOs, the three-day Summit was opened by admiral and architect of Youth for Human Rights International, Dr. Mary Shuttleworth, key organizer of the three-day conference, and co-organizer Mr. Adalbert Nouga of non-governmental alignment Village Suisse ONG. Both accent the purpose of the Summit aimed at adolescence representatives: to access acquaintance of animal rights and the use of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the apparatus to boldness animal rights violations.

The Summit premiered the all-embracing absolution of “The Story of Human Rights,” a arresting new abbreviate blur produced with the abutment of the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology International. The documentary defines in simple agreement the accountable of animal rights. Shuttleworth said the blur is “a allowance to the millions on all continents, out to the far corners of the world, as was the eyes of Eleanor Roosevelt.” Roosevelt was one of the authors and arch proponents of the 30-article Declaration, spearheading its acceptance by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The agenda of speakers included ambassadors, academics and religious leaders, pointing to the basic call of convalescent animal rights common in the face of statistics such as some 800,000 humans trafficked above all-embracing borders anniversary year with anniversary profits as top as $7 billion, and accouchement as adolescent as 13 awash into affected labor, prostitution, pornography, agency removal, or even as adolescent soldiers.

In a affective address, Ms. Allida Black, activity administrator and editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers and Research Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, said that abortion to apparatus the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would be like “spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King, spitting on the grave of Mahatma Gandhi, or betraying Nelson Mandela.”

Ms. Ann Archer, Academy-award-nominated added and architect of the all-embracing Artists for Human Rights, presented the Youth for Human Rights Activist Awards for 2009. Awardees cover Georgi Naydenov, administrator of Help the Needy Foundation, Bulgaria; Petar Grigorov Gramatikov, from Dialogue Center, Bulgaria; Niki Lanik, a best chase disciplinarian from the United Kingdom; and Tony Mathipa, a adolescent animal rights activist from South Africa.

The Summit aswell included a Human Rights Education alternate branch and an interreligious account chain and arduous humans of abounding faiths to accompany peace.

Rukshan Fernando, 17, agent from Sri Lanka stated: “Youth for Human Rights International is a alarm for achievement in a sea of black and will be the articulation of the approaching if added choir are absent in the past.”

Ms. Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) cited Youth for Human Rights’ alarm for empowerment and albatross of all humans as admirable of “Ghandi’s adage ‘you have to be the change you ambition to see in the world.’ ”

The aboriginal Human Rights Summit was captivated in August 2004 at United Nations Headquarters and UNICEF House in New York City and has alternated with Los Angles every year back then. In 2005 the Summit was captivated in Los Angeles; in 2006 in New York again, at United Nations Headquarters; in 2007 at the University of California–Los Angeles, and in 2008, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Youth for Human Rights International is a non-profit, civil alignment founded in 2001 by drillmaster Mary Shuttleworth to advise animal rights to adolescent people. YHRI brings acquaintance and ability of the United Nations Universal Declaration for Human Rights to adolescence through article and art contests and by accouterment abstracts for acceptance and teaching guides for schools.