{"id":4521,"date":"2017-12-11T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/new-eng\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T04:20:20","slug":"you-are-the-voice-of-the-voice-less-eu-ambassador-joins-activists-to-celebrate-human-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/?p=4521","title":{"rendered":"You are the voice of the voice-less! \u2013 EU Ambassador joins activists to celebrate Human Rights Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists, youth and local community members marked Human Rights Day in events across Myanmar. EU Ambassador Kristian Schmidt joined the celebrations in Yangon\u2019s Thakyin Mya Park on 10 December.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists, youth and local community members marked Human Rights Day in events across Myanmar. EU Ambassador Kristian Schmidt joined the celebrations in Yangon\u2019s Thakyin Mya Park on 10 December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman Rights Day is a reminder to the world that human rights are always work in progress. All nations have challenges \u2013 this is true in Europe, as it is here in Myanmar,\u201d said Ambassador Schmidt in an address to the crowd in Yangon. \u201cAs human rights defenders, you are the voice of the voice-less, a line of defence for the defence-less.\u201d Pointing to the crisis in Rakhine State, the EU Ambassador also stressed that human rights must be applied without discrimination. \u201cThe call for equality must be universal; our quest must be for indivisible human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/\">Equality Myanmar<\/a>, a longstanding partner of the European Union in promoting the protection of human rights in Myanmar, was one of the main organisers of the Human Rights Day events in Yangon. Earlier this year, the European Union in Myanmar had recognised the important work of its director, U Aung Myo Min, with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/myanmar-burma\/24104\/european-union-grants-schuman-award-u-ko-ni-daw-ja-nan-lahtaw-and-u-aung-myo-min_en\">Schuman Award<\/a>\u00a0for his outstanding engagement for human rights and equality in Myanmar. Through a human rights march through downtown Yangon, music performances, magic shows, quizzes and info booths the organisers of the Human Rights Day events in Yangon raised awareness among community members of all ages of the universality of human rights and the need to defend them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div id=\"file-36328\" class=\"file file-document file-application-pdf\">\n<div class=\"content\"><span class=\"file\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"file-icon no-display appear\" title=\"application\/pdf\" src=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/modules\/file\/icons\/application-pdf.png\" alt=\"PDF icon\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/sites\/eeas\/files\/speech_eu_ambassador_kristian_schmidt_human_rights_day_2017.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=376608\">speech_eu_ambassador_kristian_schmidt_human_rights_day_2017.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/delegations\/myanmar-burma\/37080\/you-are-voice-voice-less-%E2%80%93-eu-ambassador-joins-activists-celebrate-human-rights-day_en\">EU<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights activists, youth and local community members marked Human Rights Day in events across Myanmar. EU Ambassador Kristian Schmidt joined the celebrations in Yangon\u2019s Thakyin Mya Park on 10 December. Human rights activists, youth and local community members marked Human Rights Day in events across Myanmar. EU Ambassador Kristian Schmidt joined the celebrations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalitymyanmar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}