Fri Dec 14, 2012 at 04:00 PM PST
Terror, Horror, and Human Rights (or rather lack thereof)
by rserven
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/14/1170035/-Terror-Horror-and-Human-Rights-or-rather-lack-thereofI hope you can wade through to the end. This is important. And I think it is even more important to share the first three stories in order to highlight the last one. So I'll start in India, then proceed to Indonesia, followed by Cote d'Ivoire.
But those place names could just have easily have been Washington, DC, Indianapolis, or Charleston. This is one area where America is much less than spectacular.
The places could be anywhere where some people are considered less than human. For us transgender people that doesn't exclude much of this planet.
The stories will set the background for the story from New York about UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and others speaking about Human Rights Day.
I caution the reader that there is violence in the first stories.
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Tue Dec 18, 2012 at 04:00 PM PST
Terror, Horror and Human Rights Redux
by rserven
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/18/1171508/-Terror-Horror-and-Human-Rights-ReduxI considered unpublishing the diary at the time, but then I got busy and it published without my intervention.
I felt at the time it was important, as it concerns human rights and all. So I'm going to give it a bit of a rewrite and another shot. One change will be to the order of the material, so the more gruesome, possibly triggering material has been moved to the end.
Eight days ago, on December 10, was Human Rights Day internationally. We don't celebrate it much in the United States because it is a United Nations thing. And you know, our country is something exceptionally separate from the planet on which we live. Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.
