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Pants to Poverty - Welcome Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide pdfs UK Youth Climate Coalition Detained Voices | Detention Action Detention Action is working with people in detention, and those recently released, to share their experiences of detention, and to tell the story of why they were detained. Abdul is a Rohingya from Burma. He is stateless, so cannot return to Burma or Bangladesh. Despite this, when he claimed asylum he was placed on the Detained Fast Track. I was detained from August 2010 until the beginning of November 2012 and have only just been granted bail. I have been detained in Pakistan, Belgium and England. It was after two weeks of being locked up with no legal representation that an officer came into my room to tell me I had a legal visit. I grew up in London. I am an artist. Prison was very hard, a nightmare, I struggled to be positive.

10/12 Human Rights Day December 10 is Human Rights Day, a United Nations (UN) campaign that calls for people to know and push for their rights no matter where they are in the world. Protecting Our Rights Human rights are our basic rights or freedoms. Cultural events and photo exhibitions are also held to inform people, especially today's youth, of their rights and why it's important to hold on to them. What's Open or Closed? Human Rights Day is a global observance and not a public holiday, so it's business as usual. About Human Rights Day The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted between January 1947 and December 1948. The UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France, on the December 10, 1948. Human Rights Day Observances

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