contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of all of us and this we cannot allow to happen we will therefore celebrated with passion the seventy years of the universe of declaration of human rights which incarnates rights common to or the major legal and religious traditions we will defend it in this anniversary year more vigorously than ever before and along with our moral leaders the human rights defenders in every corner of the globe we will call on everyone to stand up for the rights of others this is in the end a very human thing to do artificial intelligence who never fully replicate the moral courage the self-sacrifice and above all the love for all human beings that sets human rights defenders apart from everyone else as i close out my term as high commissioner in the coming months i wish to end this statement by saying it has been the honor of my life to have two to have come to know many of these defendants to have worked with them and for them and i thank you for your attention. so the u.n. human rights commission zaid raad al hussein a jordanian by nationality giving a fairly well argued polemic as his final his valedictory speech is giving up the rol

welcome to the program husham all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights that's from the first article of the united nations universal declaration of human rights which was signed in one nine hundred forty eight and since then the document has been years as a stand for ensuring fundamental rights and the protection of minorities around the world the united nations human rights council began its annual conference in geneva this week it comes at a time when this international says world leaders are undermining the rights of millions we'll get our guests in a moment but first david taters sets up our discussion from geneva it was meant to be a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights but the shadow of conflict was casting a mood of pessimism across the powers of nations as the un human rights council began its opening session this week in geneva today oppression is fashionable again the security state is back. and fundamental freedoms are in retreat in every region of the world. and nowhere more so than in syria's still no ceasefire the bombing the killing and maiming have not stopped i

the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal declaration of human rights that we should welcome them back and help them rebuild their lives where we can help them but we should help them over there we don't have to bring them here what you've got a you got to do want people to bring them over here let them walk free while the been assessed well know what's the walking through it but we don't live in the law of the jungle they are british citizens are we as a government as a society and as a country have a duty of care towards them children in the u.k. anybody below the age of eighteen is actually classed as a child a fourteen fifteen sixteen year old or seventeen year old can just go around the streets with a knife. just like anybody else you know so they are as big a threat is anybody you know you cannot just say just because they were under the age of eighteen this can go into the age of forty that they're no longer a threat because they are thin themselves are victims of isis and their crimes have been returned to do you k. i'm hoping th

that they had at the united nations, because her proudest achievement was the the universal declaration of human rights, because in the 30 articles that are in that document, it outlines all of the rights that every human being on this planet should have in order to achieve world peace. she always felt that was the one thing that she accomplished that made everything she did prior to that worthwhile. >> we are ton the second floor f mrs. roosevelt's home, and we are now entering her bedroom, and this was a room she probably d didn't use a lot during the year, because she was traveling. when she was first lady, she travelled a huge amount of times. and remember, this is the time when airplane flight was fairly new, but she was a woman who liked to try new and unusual things. she loved flying. in fact, even in the war years, mrs. roosevelt traveled oversea s at a time when it was dangerous to be traveling overseas, but she wanted to study what people in europe were doing in the wartime. she went into some not safe areas in the pacific, because, again, she wanted to report back to the president what was h

committee that they had at the united nations because her proudest achievement was the universal declaration of human rightsbecause, in the 30 articles that are in that document, it outlines all of the rights that every human being on this planet should have in order to achieve world peace. she always felt that that was the one thing she accomplish that made everything prior to that worth wild. on the second floor of mrs. roosevelt's home and we are entering her bedroom. this was a room she probably did not use a lot during the year because she was traveling when she was first lady she traveled a huge amount of times. was a time when airplane flight was fairly new, but she was a woman who like to try new and unusual things, she loved during wardoing -- years she traveled overseas at a time when it was pretty dangerous to be traveling overseas. peopleted to study what in europe were doing during the war time, she went into some really, not so very safe areas in the pacific because she wanted to report back to the president what was happening during the war. the white she left house, she was traveling on beha

december the world gave a statement in honor of human rights there in where he praised turkey for being one of the first country that signed the universal declaration of human rights it was that our program maybe yes so let's talk about reality at least one hundred forty six academics face trial for signing a petition in january sixteen demanding again an end to violence against carets in turkey and article nineteen of the declaration of civil rights states that everyone have the right to the freedom of expression that what was their crime and why are they in jail. people who argue that there's. mistreatment of kurdish citizens in turkey systematic mistreatment of kurdish citizens in turkey are out of touch with reality and that's a reason to put them in prison the petition says as the vice chair of our party in human rights in charge of your lights i'll tell you this i'm a living example of how human rights has excelled during the time of x. party living example and woman like me would not be able to get elected and serve in the parliament when i say like me i'm saying a woman who chooses to wear the one star it's going to say or turn for the kurd

the children for the actions of the crimes of the parents i'm quite clear in terms of human rights universal declaration of human rights that we should welcome them back and help them rebuild their life where we can help them but we should help them over there we don't have to bring them here this is where the you and nato are really massively failed because they should have a buffer zone as they should have set up safe zones around the syria get these children into these areas look after them trying to reeducate them. but know what you've got a you've got to do want people to bring them over here let them walk free while the been assessed we'll know. the walking through it but we don't live in the law of the jungle it's not more brutal we live in a country where we value the rule of law and where we have people in this case these children who have been forced to syria by their parents these children haven't taken that decision and there are in no legal state to consent to be sent to be taken to syria that they are british citizens as a. as a society and as a country have a duty of care towards their ch

secretary general now terrorist said that there are a very long list of human rights abuses on the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights he doesn't know where to start when he looks across the globe and looks across well but he did start on eastern ghouta gutierrez called that a hell on earth but he also pointed out the the situation for the in myanmar and and also he is going to develop perhaps more evidence on southern sudan almost being forgotten by the international media where there are also serious human rights abuses but perhaps the most important point was made by the human rights commission in his valedictory speeches last speech here in geneva and which he said that he wanted to be blunt he wanted to attack the whole system what he called the conditions for veto system in the security council is being used very much by russia in syria and that is allowed the killing and the maiming and the gassing to continue of the seven years of that conflict and so they are saying that must change the united nations must change its own order if they hope to impose a stop human rights abuses and conflict acr

punishers use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all david chaytor al-jazeera geneva french president manuel mccall has told his turkish counterpart that the u.n. call for a cease fire across syria must also apply to the a friendly jim turkey launched an offensive against the kurdish y p g there last month and considers the y.p. g. terrorists and deployed further special forces to us one day on sunday turkey welcomed the un resolution calling for the ceasefire but said it wouldn't affect its campaign in a free. still to come on al-jazeera we'll tell you what's prompted this protest in the south korean capital seoul. and as president state governors to discuss school safety the u.s. supreme court may blow over his plans for the dream is all that and more when we come back. welcome back across the levant and western parts of asia still unsettled pictures massive cloud bring it's a most of rain indeed a

punisher's use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all. change to al-jazeera geneva french president manuel mccall has told his turkish counterpart that the un call for a cease fire across syria must also apply to the flame region so he launched an offensive against the kurdish why their last month bunker at considers the y.p. g. terrorists the point further special forces too afraid on monday on sunday turkey welcomed the un resolution calling for the ceasefire but said it would not affect its campaign in a free. u.n. agencies say food insecurity and says saddam has reached unprecedented levels more than sixty percent of the population is at risk of starvation by july displacement due to ongoing violence and the weak economy has contributed to the crisis hit the morgan reports now from the capital to back. barely able to stand and too sick to eat that's what john told the doctors when she brought in h

punishes use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all david chase the al jazeera geneva. three female nobel peace prize winners have called on unsung suchi to speak out about violence against raising the muslims in myanmar warning that she risks prosecution for genocide the women of visiting rango refugee camps in bangladesh have told their fellow laureate to wake up to the atrocities facing the minority group myanmar does not recognize the rain and have blamed violence in iraq and state on terrorists. maguire is one of the peace prize winners visiting cox's bazaar. germicidal really a chore martyr and the people and the world have to do something to stop but so that's one of the but also we want to tear the burmese government to the international. to mix them up trying to both but i would like to go into burma to visit our sister laura to ask her sister lauria to go to the villages where the people a

general now the terrorist said that there are a very long list of human rights abuses on the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights he doesn't know where to start when he looks across the globe and looks across well but he did start on eastern terrorists called that a hell on earth but he also pointed out the the situation for the in myanmar and and also he is going to develop perhaps more evidence on southern sudan almost being forgotten by the international media where there are also serious human rights abuses but perhaps the most important point was made by the human rights commission in his valedictory speeches last speech here in geneva and which he said that he wanted to be blunt he wanted to attack the whole system what he called the punishers veto system in the security council is being used very much by russia in syria and that is allowed the killing and the maiming and the gassing to continue of the seven years of that conflict and so they are saying that must change the united nations must change its own order if they hope to impose a stop human rights abuses and conflict across the wor

of rights day, the first bill of rights. >> it is not spot mac liberties but positive liberties raised as claims, fair housing and healthcare and so forth. tell us roosevelt's protections. and the universal declaration of human rights. >> as we get to the end of the war proposing the second bill of rights and the first bill of rights would be too limited in its understanding of freedom because it only involved restrictions on the state and roosevelt would like to make the argument, they are not free blue blue, dictatorships are poor people, hungry people and that sort of thing. his proposal to defeat the possibility of fascism coming after the war at home was a second bill of rights consisting of universal healthcare, education, right to a job and so forth. by saying we need a second bill of rights, saying that the first bill of rights could not be changed, that is the bill of rights, always and forever, and a second bill of rights, let's think what the bill of rights is. roosevelt's conception of the second bill of rights was in keeping with the way he used the first bill of rights which was a way of promoting government. that is contrary to the way we think about the bill of rights, we think of it as limit

allowed to do but it can be legally challenged if in international law and under the universal declaration of human rightsheir only citizenship so the home 0ffice their only citizenship so the home office at the moment are not saying anything because i imagine they find it very sensitive. it is much more easy if the british government simply say these people have committed crimes against americans and if they are handed over to america through an extradition process and they stand trial in america then undoubtedly they will either be executed or more likely given very long sentences, 150 years 01’ given very long sentences, 150 years or something like that, which is normally the american penal system and then it is out of our hands. i am sure the british government would prefer it is something the americans handle and for the relatives who feel they want to look these people in the face then they can go to an american court of law and do that. how much information do you fix —— think might have been got out of these men already. we know they have been questioned. what will the authorities be looking for t

from geneva it was meant to be a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights but the shadow of conflict was costing a mood of pessimism across the promise of nations as the un human rights council began its opening session this week in geneva today oppression is fashionable again. the security state is back. and fundamental freedoms are in retreat in every region of the world. and nowhere more so than in syria still no ceasefire the bombing the killing and the may have not stopped in eastern guta although the government says it's responding to revel shelling on the capital of damascus and it is important for the united nations to step up to the plate and. outside the chamber men who know all about challenges syrian members of the white helmet rescue teams talking to a colleague inside eastern goto. we do not need assistance we need a ceasefire and a stop to the bloodshed and massacres being committed against civilians women and children against guta. no average to stays off emotional milk the only think that continues to give us the strength is a smile that we

not a crime it's not a crime according to islam it's not a crime according to the universal declaration of human rights it's only a crime in the minds of terrorists and extremists and we need to be very clear about this when we say these things that well the blasphemy law is being misused and abused we're already legitimizing an extremist mentality we need to get rid of these laws and replace them with laws based on justice and equality once we have justice and equality then we can talk about protecting the rights of minorities right no there's simply no possible way to do that when you're legitimizing extremist ideology and i mean even in this case i mean that quote at the trial of a high security prison because of a threat to the defense lawyers and the government prosecutors. do you think that the government realizes how serious this is now and he's going to do something about it. it's hard to say i mean you know i recall very distinctly in two thousand and ten when the taliban attacked two mosques of the end of the muslim community killing eighty six people the government was warned ahead of time t

lives that flagrant abuse of civilian lives first twenty eighteen is the year when the universal declaration of human rights then seventy years old and it's really incumbent on all of us to stand up for our rights to claim them to reclaim their fundamental values of the dignity and equality of all members of the human family and to say clearly to our leaders that that is what we want as the basis of policy making in the world david thank you so much for that david griffith there head of the secretary general's office at amnesty international speaking to us from london . thank you. well as david mentioned amnesty has decided to launch their report in the united states which it says has endured an especially difficult year in terms of human rights other activist groups have also expressed concern about what they see as a rise in religious and racial intolerance under the troll presidency. for the first time and this internationals and all report is being released in the us capital washington d.c. for the human rights watch jack it's supposed to send a clear message and the secretary general explains why the u

punishes use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all david chaytor al jazeera geneva saudi arabia says three of its soldiers have died in fighting with hooty rebels on its border with yemen a saudi there strike has killed seven yemeni soldiers in a friendly fire incident it comes as yemeni government ministers accused the u.a.e. of trying to fragment the country by creating tribal armies victoria they can be reports. on the lookout for al qaeda these fighters belong to the united arab emirates ship one elite forces they began patrolling the streets of the al mccann district in eastern yemen all monday as part of operation decisive storm an initiative by the saudi led coalition which includes the u.a.e. to clear areas considered to be al qaeda strongholds at this media briefing a minister belonging to the internationally recognized government led by president abbott rebbie months all heidi agreed the

punishes use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all david chaytor al jazeera geneva. french president manuel mccollum has told his turkish counterpart that the u.n. call for a cease fire across syria must also apply to the afridi region sarky launched an offensive against the kurdish y p g there last month ancora considers the y. p.g. terrorists deployed further special forces to a free a monday on sunday turkey welcomed the un resolution calling for the ceasefire but said it wouldn't affect its campaign in a free well it took days of negotiations for the un security council to reach any agreement on the syrian cease fire and the other similar wrangling over a resolution on yemen let's go live to a diplomatic editor james at the u.n. for us in new york hi there james so what are they saying there about the cease fire currently in eastern guta and what else is happening in yemen at the u.n. . well th

punishes use of the veto as the world celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights the high commissioner said it was the worst offenders disregard and contempt for human rights which will be the eventual undoing of us all david chaytor al-jazeera geneva. we think that is of course our focus but we shouldn't forget there are ongoing battles in other parts of syria as such this the who controls what map of syria is being regular updates and i think about a freeing up in the north west as well which is ongoing if you just for that syria who controls what you can explore this map the itself it is handy context when we talk about syria's war which is being fought as we know on so many fronts you can get in touch with us as well the hash tag is a good contact details coming up on screen of had a couple of questions already which are hopefully i can answer here on facebook who is in control of the well as you saw in the first map i showed you there is a rebel held on clay village green areas it is rebel held areas but it is besieged from all around by the syrian government

equivocally state that when we talk of human rights we refer to the whole catalogue of civil political economic social and cultural rights recognized in the declaration as being universal wherever we live or whatever our circumstances or place in society are sex or sexual orientation race religion or beliefs we are all equal in rights and dignity. the universal declaration also establishes that respect for human rights is the best preventive strategy it was disdain for these rights that led to the acts of barbarism committed during the second world war in today's world it's also by ensuring the primacy of human rights that we can prevent conflicts. all the crises currently being considered by the security council invariably intertwined with human rights violations and attacks on these rights they may range from the violation of individual and collective freedoms to blatant hundred fringe mintz of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity i congratulate the human rights council for focusing on prevention in the informal dialogues it's held in plea on during twenty seventeen my office stands ready to support the council in strengthening its preventive ro