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WEBSITE OF THE MONTH
www.universalrights.net
To continue our focus
on Economic Humanism, we have selected the
Universal Rights website, as MEJB website
of the month.
This website, the Human
Rights and Social Justice internet advocacy
site, the Universal Rights Network, has
been produced, financed and run by human
rights advocate, Kim Gleeson for the last
8 years. It reaches 2.5 million people worldwide.
It was set up to defend the rights of marginalised
peoples worldwide, and is currently under
consideration for prizes in Sweden and Japan.
The site has been listed
as a human rights resource by the ILO, the
UN, amongst thousand of others The site
attracts the interests of international
and Australian media agencies, the European
Union, the US State Dept, the Office of
the President of the USA, Department of
Foreign Affairs Departments and Government
agencies worldwide, Education agencies worldwide.
It is the first listing
under " Universal Rights" on the
Google search engine.
The Universal
Rights Network is a meeting place for the
peoples of the world to discuss the importance
of universal rights and fundamental freedoms
to us all. It was created to promote the
50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
This site provides valuable
data to governments and NGOs. It also has
some fascinating statistics. The home page
provides a global population counter. When
this page was loaded, there were 6,346,955,205
humans on the earth. The population increases
by 220,000 people every day.
Other facts:
1.1 billion humans have no access to safe
drinking water.
In the 35 poorest nations 30-50% have no
access to health services.
Women are the most disadvantaged group,
followed by the elderly, then children.
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