Idaho Human Rights Education Center

Mission

The Center's Mission is to promote respect for human dignity and diversity through education and to foster our individual responsibility to work for justice and peace. We achieve this mission through education programming, Memorial tours and collaborative advocacy. We are proud of our many accomplishments.

We want you to be inspired with our message. We trust that you will find among these pages reasons-and tools-for taking action in human rights advocacy in your neighborhood, in your school, in your workplace, in your family, in your state or province, in your country and throughout your life.

The Idaho Human Rights Education Center is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.

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Idaho History of Human Rights

The Center’s eighth annual Change Your World Celebration, Friday, October 21, 2011 at Green Chutes in Boise, honored the IHREC 2011 Human Rights Educator-of-the-Year Diane Williams from ANSER Junior High; former IHREC Executive Director Amy Herzfeld as the IHREC’s Catalyst Awardee, and Shelli Sonnenberg, the Idaho Inclusiveness Coalition’s 2011 Human Rights award winner.

Dr. Nancy Taylor, co-founder of our Center and the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, nationally lauded human rights advocate, and the current Senior Minister & CEO of Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts keynote address both energized and engaged the attendees in celebrating the work of the Center. Please click here for the full text of Dr. Taylor’s presentation. Please click here to read Dr. Nancy Taylor's biography.

The Celebration serves as the Center's signature event and has a reputation as one of the most dynamic cultural events in the community. Proceeds from this important night guarantee our program success each year and advance our mission of promoting respect for human dignity through education; we hope to see you at the 2012 annual event.

What Are Human Rights?

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2

"No distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2

"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 3

"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4

"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5

"Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 6

"All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7

"Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 8

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9

"Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 10

"Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 11

"No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 11

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12

"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13

"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13

"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from nonpolitical crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14

"Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 15

"Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. " - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16

"Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16

"Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17

"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19

"Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20

"Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. 2. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 21

"The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 21

"Everyone has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 22

"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23

"Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23

"Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23

"Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 23

"Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 24

"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25

"Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25

"Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26

"Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26

"Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26

"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 27

"Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 27

"Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 28

"Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 29

"In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. " - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 29

"Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein." - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 30

What's Happening at the Center

Rose's 90th with the IHREC!

On SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4th, the Center honored Rose Beal on her 90th birthday with a very special celebration dinner.

Rose had just two requests for her birthday: first, that a party bring together her family and many Boise friends, and second, that instead of gifts to her, friends would make a contribution to the Center in her name. With the help of many, many generous people and local businesses, the Center hosted Rose's Birthday Party at the Idaho Historical Museum on Sunday, December 4.

Many thanks to all those who made the evening a success. Please condider making a gift to the Center today in honor of Rose and her legacy.

To view Katherine Jones Idaho Statesman photos of the event please click here.

To see KTVB coverage of the event please click here.

Looking for something to do? Check out our calendar under the Events tab above for a listing of a variety of rewarding and educational social justice workshops and events. Know of an event that is compatible with our mission to promote respect for human dignity and diversity? Please send it to info@idaho-humanrights.org so we can add it to the community calendar.

Have you checked out our new human rights book club, a partnership with Rediscovered Bookshop? The book club meets on the second Thursday of every other month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Idaho Black History Museum (508 E. Julia Davis Dr.). The next discussion will be Thursday, January 12. The featured book, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, is the epic story of America's great migration of black citizens from the South to the North. Participation is free, however selected books are available for sale at Rediscovered Bookshop and 10% of the cover price will be donated to the Center.

Looking for the perfect gift? One-of-a-kind Memorial posters available. We commissioned popular Idaho artist Ward Hooper to create an image of the Memorial in his iconic style. Call 345-0304 to buy your $20 limited edition print. Engraved brick pavers at the Memorial are also a moving tribute for friends and family. Check out our order form today.

Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights named one of only 11 United States sites to receive a sapling from the actual Anne Frank Chestnut Tree in Amsterdam. Click here to read an April 30, 2010 CNN story about the sapling. Click the arrow through the pictures to both the "Remembrance" and "U.S. sites" captions to read about our Center. In October, 2010, we learned our sapling is doing very well in an East Coast nursery and is scheduled to be released from the USDA in late 2012.