12/10 is Human Rights Day

Local events: On Friday December 10th at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza (Bancroft and Telegraph), UC Berkeley will host Human Rights Day at UCB at 11:45. Also in Berkeley, Women in Black will have its weekly vigil at 12pm. In Oakland at 4:30, there will be a candlelight vigil. There will be a demonstration in Fresno at 5pm, and a public event in Merced at 5:45. At the Ecology Center in Berkeley, Michael Nagler will speak about The Search for a Nonviolent Future at 7pm.
On Saturday 12/11, a Stop Violence Against Women Walk will leave from Amnesty International's Western Regional Office at 10am. It will visit four consular offices in San Francisco to share concerns about the growing violence and discrimination against women in those countries.. SF Women in Black will be in Union Square at 1pm. December 3rd-10th is also a national "The War Must Stop Now" Week of Actions.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | Human Rights Web | Amnesty International | Human Rights Watch | Human Rights for Workers in the United States | Eat the State Article from 1998 | Indybay Coverage of IHRD 2002 | Photos