21st
March
2009
Human Rights Day (South Africa)
In South Africa, Human Rights Day is celebrated on 21 March, in remembrance of the Sharpeville massacre.
Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human rights challenge in the world. Combating poverty, deprivation and exclusion is not a matter of charity, and it does not depend on how rich a country is. By tackling poverty as a matter of human rights obligation, the world will have a better chance of abolishing this scourge in our lifetime….Poverty eradication is an achievable goal.
—UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, 10 December 2006
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