Global Citizen Action. Michael Edwards and John Gaventa (eds), Earthscan, London, 2001, 326 pp, pound14.95 (pb), ISBN 1 85383 834 9

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-272
Author(s):  
G. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Global Citizen ◽  
Citizen Action

Citizen action

1967 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-171
Author(s):  
Joan A. Casey
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Action

Human Rights, Global Ethics, and the Ordinary Virtues

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ignatieff
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
Citizen Action ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Human Rights ◽  
The Individual

In a 1958 speech at the United Nations, Eleanor Roosevelt took stock of the progress that human rights had made since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ten years before. Mrs. Roosevelt had chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration and had hoped that, in time, it would become “the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.” Her answer to the question of how to measure human rights progress has become one of the most frequently quoted remarks of the former First Lady: Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Citizen action

1943 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 553-557
Author(s):  
Elwood N. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Action

Citizen action

1960 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 628-635
Author(s):  
Elsie S. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Action
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