Comments on: Write a blog for Human Rights Day – 10th December 2008 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2707 This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tc http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2707/comment-page-1#comment-272499 tc Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:51:17 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=2707#comment-272499 It's worth remembering that this declaration came in the aftermath of the Second World War, the desecration of the rights of millions. And alongside the Nuremberg trials, which were a credible and necessary commitment to justice. How can people enforce respect for their rights in a culture of impunity?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('272499','tc'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('272499','tc','It\'s worth remembering that this declaration came in the aftermath of the Second World War, the desecration of the rights of millions. And alongside the Nuremberg trials, which were a credible and necessary commitment to justice. How can people enforce respect for their rights in a culture of impunity?'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> It’s worth remembering that this declaration came in the aftermath of the Second World War, the desecration of the rights of millions. And alongside the Nuremberg trials, which were a credible and necessary commitment to justice. How can people enforce respect for their rights in a culture of impunity?
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]]> By: a Duoist http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/2707/comment-page-1#comment-272497 a Duoist Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:03:05 +0000 http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/?p=2707#comment-272497 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document of compromise, expanding from traditional political and civil rights into new economic and social 'rights,' in order to get socialist nations to approve the Declaration. Sixty years later, every socialist nation in the world is still among the most impoverished nations, and they are all also among the group of nations with the worst records on human rights. Since the signing of the Declaration, a number of non-socialist nations have vaulted into the group of wealthiest nations, notably South Korea, Japan, and Germany, three countries devastated by total war and economic collapse. With entirely different cultures, religions, and languages, all three deliberately chose the path to prosperity set by several other countries around the world: adopt freedom, prosperity follows. For all of the 170 major nations of the world--excluding just OPEC and the super-rich mini-states--their level of national prosperity exactly equals their actual commitment to the Declaration. Zimbabwe, of course, is the world's foremost example of the correlation that is world-wide: If any country is among the worst in human rights, it will be populated by one of the most impoverished people. The great freedom philosophers of the 20C were written by several economists who earned the Economics Nobel Prize. Every Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded for the science of how nations can avoid poverty, or how nations can build prosperity. Clearly the freedom philosophies by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics have no reading audience in Zimbabwe; so long as the Declaration is held in such wide-spread disregard by the ZANU-PF government, the people of Zimbabwe will continue to be impoverished. All of the top twenty nations in human rights in the world are also the top twenty nations in national prosperity. They did not get wealthy first, and then "buy" their freedom. There won their freedom first, and then grew their prosperity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights points to the path of national prosperity for Zimbabwe: Freedom.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('272497','a Duoist'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> --- <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('272497','a Duoist','The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document of compromise, expanding from traditional political and civil rights into new economic and social \'rights,\' in order to get socialist nations to approve the Declaration. Sixty years later, every socialist nation in the world is still among the most impoverished nations, and they are all also among the group of nations with the worst records on human rights.\r\n\r\nSince the signing of the Declaration, a number of non-socialist nations have vaulted into the group of wealthiest nations, notably South Korea, Japan, and Germany, three countries devastated by total war and economic collapse. With entirely different cultures, religions, and languages, all three deliberately chose the path to prosperity set by several other countries around the world: adopt freedom, prosperity follows.\r\n\r\nFor all of the 170 major nations of the world--excluding just OPEC and the super-rich mini-states--their level of national prosperity exactly equals their actual commitment to the Declaration. Zimbabwe, of course, is the world\'s foremost example of the correlation that is world-wide: If any country is among the worst in human rights, it will be populated by one of the most impoverished people.\r\n\r\nThe great freedom philosophers of the 20C were written by several economists who earned the Economics Nobel Prize. Every Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded for the science of how nations can avoid poverty, or how nations can build prosperity. Clearly the freedom philosophies by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics have no reading audience in Zimbabwe; so long as the Declaration is held in such wide-spread disregard by the ZANU-PF government, the people of Zimbabwe will continue to be impoverished.\r\n\r\nAll of the top twenty nations in human rights in the world are also the top twenty nations in national prosperity. They did not get wealthy first, and then \"buy\" their freedom. There won their freedom first, and then grew their prosperity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights points to the path of national prosperity for Zimbabwe: Freedom.'); return false;">Quote from this comment</a></div> The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document of compromise, expanding from traditional political and civil rights into new economic and social ‘rights,’ in order to get socialist nations to approve the Declaration. Sixty years later, every socialist nation in the world is still among the most impoverished nations, and they are all also among the group of nations with the worst records on human rights.

Since the signing of the Declaration, a number of non-socialist nations have vaulted into the group of wealthiest nations, notably South Korea, Japan, and Germany, three countries devastated by total war and economic collapse. With entirely different cultures, religions, and languages, all three deliberately chose the path to prosperity set by several other countries around the world: adopt freedom, prosperity follows.

For all of the 170 major nations of the world–excluding just OPEC and the super-rich mini-states–their level of national prosperity exactly equals their actual commitment to the Declaration. Zimbabwe, of course, is the world’s foremost example of the correlation that is world-wide: If any country is among the worst in human rights, it will be populated by one of the most impoverished people.

The great freedom philosophers of the 20C were written by several economists who earned the Economics Nobel Prize. Every Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded for the science of how nations can avoid poverty, or how nations can build prosperity. Clearly the freedom philosophies by the Nobel Prize winners in Economics have no reading audience in Zimbabwe; so long as the Declaration is held in such wide-spread disregard by the ZANU-PF government, the people of Zimbabwe will continue to be impoverished.

All of the top twenty nations in human rights in the world are also the top twenty nations in national prosperity. They did not get wealthy first, and then “buy” their freedom. There won their freedom first, and then grew their prosperity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights points to the path of national prosperity for Zimbabwe: Freedom.

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