The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by The United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Drafters included UN representatives from England, Lebanon, Russia, China, France, Australia, Chile, Canada and Eleanor Roosevelt. It's worth a look.
Last night Nicholas Kristof, columnist, New York Times, spoke at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco. Topics included human trafficking, rape, gender inequality, violence, political instability, the role of advocacy journalism and the journalist's responsibility to the world.
Someone asked Kristof if there were not some good things happening too in the world, positive things the media wasn't reporting on. He said yes, of course, some very good things were happening , that he'd struggled with this for years, was still struggling, and that unfortunately bad news sold more newspapers than good.
"It's not as evil as you think", Rolf Jacobsen, the Norwegian poet (1907-1994) wrote in one of his poems about the world.