SRINE: January 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Sign Petition!

Petition asking the Committee Against Torture to demand that Ethiopia stop torturing political prisoners and to adhere to international human rights treaties and standards on the treatment of prisoners.

Sign Petition!

www.ethiopianhumanrights.org

Four essential human freedoms

Four freedoms are essential to a flourishing democracy: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.