INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

International Human Rights Day is being celebrated every year on the 10th of December, in the anniversary of signing by UN the General Declaration of Human Rights (1948) by UN.

Celebration of this day is being organized around the word, in every place where people are aware of the great significance of Human Rights, and the necessity of education in this subject, which enables us to prevent from breaking the law.

The One Word Association, in cooperation with Amnesty International Poland (Poznan group) organizes the celebration of the Human Rights Day every year.

During every action organized by us, you are welcome to acquaintance yourself with the rights every one is entitled to, according to the Declaration, as well as with the examples of breaking them, around the word and in Poland. There is also an opportunity of getting essential knowledge about institutions responsible for providing help.

EUROPEAN WEEK AGAINST RACISM

In attempt to treasure in our memory seventy members of the peace demonstration for equality of rights, that took place on the 21th of March 1960, in Shaperville in The Republic of South Africa, who died from police bullets, UN proclaimed the 21th of March as the International Anti-racism Day.

Due to the work of many NGOs, the week around the 21th of March soon became rich in events, which were ment to convince the public opinion of the nonsense of any signs of racism.

Joining the campaign led across Europe this time every year, we would like to invite the citizans of Poznan to take part in the series of events organized by "The One World Association".

INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE DAY

Every day, all around the word, people are making difficult decisions of leaving their homes and countries in the escape from prosecution. The refugees. There are 22 mlns of them in the world.

According to the Geneva Convention (1951, signed by 139 countries) "The refugee is a person, who due to justifiable anxiety about prosecution because of his: race, religion, nationality, affiliation to a certain social group or political convictions, is staying outside the borders of the country, where he belongs to, and can not or does not want to, because of these anxieties, exercise the protection of his country."

The Refugee Day is being celebrated on the 20th of June since 2001.

Organizing the celebration of this day, we want to point out the problem of emigration. Ask the first person you meet in the street "who is the refugee?" and the answers in the majority of examples will be: "Romanian", "the man, who came over to grow rich", or " I don’t know, I m not interested in it".

Polish society still lacks the knowledge about the people, who had to escape their country because of the prosecution. The aim of our action is to educate the citizens of Poznan in this subject.