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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights maintains its pace during the month of March. With new NGOs and associations signing on, a new ambassador, the Declaration takes another step forward.

New memberships

On the occasion of the^1st Global Citizen Summit, the president and founder of Pangée ONG, Nathalie Kesler, also organizer of the event, signed the Declaration on behalf of her NGO.

Two other associations have also signed the Declaration. Raphaël Esrail, President of the Union of Auschwitz Deportees (UDA ) and Christoph Heubner, Co-President of the International Auschwitz Committee (IAC ) co-signed the Declaration on March 15. The UDA was founded in 2004 and brings together several other survivors’ associations around the former “Amicale d’Auschwitz” created in June 1945. The ICA was founded in 1952 by survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Its purpose is to coordinate national Holocaust remembrance committees.

The DDHu also welcomes a new ambassador: François Veillerette, co-founder, spokesperson and director of Générations Futures. This association founded in 1996 is an environmental protection association approved by the Ministry of Ecology since 2008.

Great news for the HRDu!

The Executive Committee of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) unanimously supports the HRDu, so that it can be approved by the UN member states.

The Executive Committee meeting in Montevideo on April 6 unanimously approved the principle of recognition of the HRDu for final approval in Durban in November. This body considered that the text was in line with UCLG’s strategy in in terms of ecological transition, intergenerational links and construction of peace. The Executive Board approved the following recommendation: support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so that it may be can be approved by the UN member states.

This marks a major step in the universal recognition of the HRDu as UCLG represents some 240,000 cities and metropolises around the world, or 5 billion people.

Excerpt from the August 8, 2017 article in the Journal Spécial des Sociétés

The days of June 29 and 30 were intended to make the young Marseilles bar shine and to show how much it was open to the international, to economic exchanges, but also to the human. This is why we have proposed the title: “The 48 hours of opportunities”.

We received 25 foreign bars, all the representatives of the French and overseas bars, representatives of the National Council of Bars, the Conference of Bar Presidents, our local elected officials, politicians and institutions, delegations of foreign investors and economic actors of the Marseille Provence area. It was an opportunity to sign the Declaration of Human Rights that will be taken to the UN and to pay tribute to Simone Veil. Those who have come are asking to strengthen their ties with Marseille and we will receive a delegation of investors in October. For us, it’s mission accomplished.

Read the full article here

List of signatories of the UDHR on June 30, 2017 in Marseille

The city of Normandy signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this Monday, June 26, during a city council meeting, in the presence of Corinne Lepage, who was deputy mayor for 12 years.