It’s 10th December! The day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate and renew commitments in the fight against all forms of Human Rights violations.
In celebrating this day, we, at the Justice Vault Foundation, reiterate our commitment and reaffirm our stand with the people of Nigeria on all fronts, as we work together to fight against human rights violations and injustice.
Aung san suu kyi writes: “Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day: fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule…that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear…for fear is not the natural state of a civilized man”
So,
let us, in recovering from the Covid 19 pandemic, stand up for our rights, stand up for justice, stand up for health; while also standing down human rights abuses, injustice for as John F. Kennedy puts it, “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are”