DECEMBER
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH
"Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th — the United Nations General Assembly adopted in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status."
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This month's blog series will be about these notable human rights leaders.
Poet Fadwa Tuqan
Michelle Bachelet
Tran Minh Nhat
Poet Fadwa Tuqan
Born in Palestine (Nablus in the northern West Bank)1917- 12 December 2003
She voiced her rejection of many of these customs in her two-volume autobiography
Between 1952 and 2000, she published eight collections of poetry.
Selections of her poetry have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Persian, and Hebrew.
She was awarded several prizes and medals, including the annual Sulayman Arar Poetry Prize; the prize of the Union of Jordanian Writers in 1983; the Sultan Uways Prize of the United Arab Emirates in 1989; the Jerusalem Medal of the PLO in 1990; the prize of the World Festival of Contemporary Writing, Salerno, Italy, in 1992; the Tunisian cultural medal of 1996; and the PLO prize for literature in 1997.