Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Human Rights (Day)

"I call on States to honour their obligation 

to protect human rights every day of the year. 

I call on people to hold their governments to account."

~ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Midweek Motif ~ 

Human Rights (Day)

Today is Human Rights Day. Have you read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?? I love #22. The document itself is an achievement.


Your Challenge: 

(1)Write a poem inspired by 

Ban Ki-Moon's challenge above.

OR:  

(2)Write a poem that answers 

one or more of these questions while staying within the "human rights" motif:

~ What is Human?

~ What are Rights?

~ What can/has uniting nations accomplished for human rights?

~ How do your dinner plans for tonight reflect Human rights?

HUMAN RIGHTS ACCORDING TO ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:

Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, closes to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

Remarks at the United Nations, March 27, 1958

“While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.” 
― Robert Burns, 
The Complete Works Of Robert Burns

For those who are new to Poets United:  

1. Post your new Human Rights poem on your site, and then link it here.
2. If you use a picture include its link.  
3. Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 
4. Leave a comment here.
5. Visit and comment on our poems.

(Next week's Midweek Motif will be the last one this year.  Our motif will be MUSIC in honor of Beethovan's birthday and the choral songs that arise around holidays and year's end ... )

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