The final webinar in the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP)’s Black Power Educational Series will address human rights. December 10 is globally recognized as International Human Rights Day to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) promulgated in 1948. The UDHR meant to serve as a set of principles that would usher in a new period of respect for human dignity and rights. However, the post-war interests of Western nations compelled them to violate the UDHR and undermine every subsequent human-rights treaty, covenant and law created by the international community of states.

Beginning with the United Nations Conference in 1945, Black radicals were at the center of the fight for a more effective and representative human rights. The Black radical approach to human rights connected anti-racism and anti-colonialism, and raised the question of the compatibility of the colonial/capitalist system with human rights. This was the foundation for what has become the People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) framework first articulated by BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka. PCHRs breaks from the liberal, individualistic, legal and state-centered approach of the dominant UDHR framework.

BAP SPEAKERS

Jaribu Hill, veteran human rights defender, director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights and founder of the 24-year-old Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC).

Ajamu Baraka, internationally recognized human rights defender, creator of the PCHRs framework and National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace.

HOW TO WATCH

Join the Black Alliance for Peace at 7 p.m., EST, December 10 to delve deeper into the history and practice of the PCHRs as well as the relevance of the PCHRs for framing the ideological challenge to the ongoing and deepening neoliberal capitalist crisis.

Register here.

Watch the livestream on our Facebook page and through our YouTube channel.

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