Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish text.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."


It is a sad fact that many places in our world do not honor this declaration. Cultural Compassion- The Human Chronicles was created to help spread the word about human rights issues that are going on in the world and sometimes in our own backyards. 


Right now, there are questions of human rights violations by Mexican police, Egypt officials are defending sweeps of human rights and pro-democracy buildings, and CPJ has reported that 45 journalists were murdered in direct reprisal for their work, killed on a dangerous assignment or killed in crossfire during a combat situation in 2011.