After World War II, the peoples and nations of the world were horrified by the huge loss of life and by the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler and they resolved to ensure that such things would never happen again.
They agreed upon certain rights held in common by all people in every nation and territory of the planet and created mechanisms to back up the Universal Declaration. In the introduction (the Preamble) to the Declaration, they urged all governments to implement education of all people in all countries about the 30 rights to make sure they are observed.
Unfortunately, this suggestion has never been implemented. Peaceful Planet Human Rights Education is dedicated to ensuring this ideal becomes a reality. Only in this way can we achieve a Peaceful Planet.
The driving force for the agreement and signing of the Universal Declaration was Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States during World War II. At the tenth anniversary celebration of the signing of the Declaration in 1958, Mrs Roosevelt included in her speech:
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps 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.”