Capt SpaceBat

Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world on 10 December.

The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights. The commemoration was established in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit.

60 years on from UDHR and what has happened? Looking at my categories:

# Antiques - The work of more oppressed people has moved into the antiques category
# Boating - not much progress, barring emigration and piracy
# BPD - mental health: fewer burnings at the stake, although more use of emergency mental health powers to detain State opponents, my art exhibited online
# Death - much more of it in new and more immediate ways; decentralisation of the “State Murder Squad”
# Food - seems to be less of it to go around more people
# Gardening - “see Food”, likewise less of it to go around, also see “Housing”
# General - prognosis not good
# Jewellery - hoarding against harder times
# Legal - more freedoms granted, more restrictions in place
# Money - more of it in fewer hands
# Politics - bread and circuses
# Recycling - greater need whilst more want newer things, see “money” and “Politics”
# Sex - more diversity, less perversity - did anyone mention bondage?

Have to add a new category:
# Housing - more of it exchangeable - see http://blog.gardenlend.co.uk/2008/12/03/gardenlend-the-next-stage-house-and-garden-swap/

Here’s to the next 60 years - cripes, I shall be 100 and - no doubt - “wearing something tight”

Thanks Leonard Cohen!