30th August 2023, Taipei/Taiwan  -  Wishes 61 / 62 / 63

In the name of Peace and Justice.

I have three wishes today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice - in the hope they may be fulfilled.

My wishes today are about Human Rights.

At the time when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted, approved and adopted (by the UN General Assembly, on 10th December 1948, in Paris), the UN comprised just 58 members, of which only 48 actually voted in favour of the Declaration. The vast majority of today's nations had no chance to participate in the drafting of the Declaration, most of them were held as colonies by Western nations at that time.

Today, it seems that there is a widespread dissent as to what Human Rights are really all about, some countries seem to disagree with certain articles of the UDHR, others would prefer to include some other provisions, many countries have gone so far as to rewrite a whole new set of Human Rights specifically for the use in their own country.

Now, the meaning of Human Rights is, of course, that they should apply to all humans. It doesn't make sense to invent new sets of Human Rights especially for African humans, or for Chinese humans, or for American humans, or for whatever other humans you might choose. We are all humans, we all belong to the same family of humans, Humans Rights must apply to all of us, worldwide.

My first wish for today is that we should sit together and start discussing Human Rights once again, from scratch, with all of today's UN member states involved. We need a new, up-dated version of the UDHR, to be approved and signed by all member states.

Secondly, such updated UDHR has to become national as well as international law! It's nice to agree on something, but at the end of the day such agreements become useless if they are not written into law.

Finally, and this is my third wish for today, we need an new International Court of Justice, or a new International Criminal Court, or rather an International Court of Human Rights to deal with cases where Human Rights have been denied and local, national courts have refused to deal with them. 

Such are my three wishes for today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice, in the hope they may be fulfilled.

In the name of Peace and Justice, thank you!

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