Talking Peace taping: Afghanistan – Eyewitness Account

With Basir Bita, Afghan refugee relocated to Vancouver, CA; Doug Mackey, Fellowship Of Reconciliation; Ladaisha Williams, Community Outreach for Urban League’s Young Professionals Program (focus includes Afghan refugees resettling in Buffalo); Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.

• • values we bring
  • the fall of Kabul – eyewitness account from Basir
  • international efforts for peace and human rights
  • local efforts to help with resettlement in Buffalo
  • ways to help and get more involved

The show is taped for just under an hour by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future (thanks to Richard Wicka, our wonderful producer. The Zoom recording, livestreamed on Facebook during the taping, will air on WBNY 91.3FM on the following Monday (1/10) at 2pm EST. After airing, you can also find the video archived on the WNY Peace Center YouTube channel.

Full text: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The General Assembly,
Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 30: Rights are Inalienable

This idea that rights are indivisible is at the heart of Article 30. All the rights in the UDHR are connected to each other and are equally important. They all have to be followed, and no one right trumps the others. These rights are inherent to every woman, man and child, so they cannot be positioned in a hierarchy, or exercised in isolation.