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My changecamp event is centered around the issue of human rights. A great deal has been achieved over time to enhance civil liberties, for example, women’s franchise. However, humanism in the 21st Century is still a critical concern, considering the amount of basic human rights and freedoms that are breached worldwide today. Some of the most debated topics include environmental rights, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) rights, women’s rights, and crime and punishment. In reference to these topics: It is a human right to exist within a healthy or adequate environment, which is clearly not the case for everyone residing within any one country in the world. Although LGBT and women’s rights have been seriously altered for the good, this only came about in selected areas (only 4 out of 50 states in USA for LGBTs‘, and in the Western, more economically developed world for women) and same-sex marriage, gay adoption rights, and protection from discrimination, as well as women’s equality continue to be shunned. Legislative laws such as capital punishment is seen as infringing people’s right to live, in addition to police brutality such as the holdings of Al-Qaeda prisoners by the American Government at Guantanamo Bay are seen as violating human rights. Thus, taking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into account, the severity of underdeveloped constitutional rights worldwide should be addressed and amended in order to create a more desirable future.

As with Peter Block‘s changecamp, my event requires a network of devoted citizens, driven by dialogue, bonds between people, and are committed to making a change. With the help of socially based interaction as well as mass media communication, we can cast the light of public attention on the issues of human rights. Socially based interactions include events such as information sessions, volunteer applications, and fund raisers such as music concerts and charity balls, and appeals to Governments. Mass media facilitates these social events and helps spread the message around the world via the Web, newspapers, magazines, radio and television. In addition, there will be support for existing organisations such as Amnesty International. We need to recognize that human rights is universally essential, and my changecamp will encourage this change to a more desirable future.