Today is International Human Rights Day, a day to commemorate
the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the first global enunciation of human rights enacted by the
United Nation’s General Assembly in 1948. If you aren’t familiar
with UDHR, you can read it here (in multiple languages). Today
we remember those living and breathing on the front lines of
human rights work, at home and abroad! Today we remember victims
and survivors of political, religious, ethnic, gender and all
other oppressions! Today we recognize that there is much work
left to be done! Over the summer I saw Worse than War, a
documentary by Daniel Goldhagen, Professor of Political Science
at Harvard University. You may know him from his highly
controversial book Hitler’s Willing Executions, in which he
argues that the culpability of Nazi genocide extended far beyond
the Nazi elite and their most loyal foot-soldiers. Every-day
Germans were equally complicit in the atrocities committed
against European Jews, Gypsies, the ph