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On December 10, 1950, the United Nations General Assembly invited member nations to join in observing Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights two years earlier. The focus for this year’s Human Rights Day around the world is ‘Speak Up. Stop Discrimination,’ and will highlight and promote the achievements of human rights defenders, while emphasizing the primary role governments need to play in enabling and protecting human rights defenders.
Worker rights are human rights, at home and abroad. Human rights are at the core of our movement, which is why worker’s rights are so often under attack.
CUPE Ontario members remain tireless human rights defenders, whether it is through their day-to-day work, or through their activism. Individually and together, we draw attention to injustices both at home and abroad.
At home, CUPE Ontario has been a steady voice in defence of human rights, standing in solidarity with protesters at last summer’s G20 summit. We continue to speak out against the assault on dissent so evident in the many arbitrary arrests and detentions that took place before and during the summit. We continue to call on the government to hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the events, which took place during the summit to ensure that citizens’ legitimate rights to speak out against injustice are not muzzled.
