http://colmogorman.com Colm O'Gorman Mon, 24 May 2010 20:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Colm O\'Gorman (born 1966) is campaigner, author of Beyond Belief and is currently the Executive Director in Amnesty International Ireland Colm O\'Gorman Colm O'Gorman http://colmogorman.com/wp-content/themes/streamline_10/images/logo.pnghttp://colmogorman.com Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O'Gorman, Author, One in Four, Campaigner no Colm O'Gorman colmog@gmail.com http://colmogorman.com/?p=457 http://colmogorman.com/?p=457#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:03:05 +0000 admin http://colmogorman.com/?p=457 Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://colmogorman.com/?feed=rss2&p=457 0 In 1948, in a global effort to ensure that the inhumanity of the Second World War would never happen again, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)was passed and adopted by the United Nations without a single dissenting voice.  Colm O’Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Irish Section, in association with RTE Radio 1’s Drivetime programme, broadcast a series of radio columns, one dedicated to each article of the Declaration, to bring this historical and foundational document to life, demonstrating how central and relevant it is to our everyday lives.   Article 29: Everyone has the responsibility to respect and uphold the rights of others in their community and the wider world In this week’s column, Colm O’Gorman describes the scale of the abuse and misuse of aid by the government of Myanmar in the wake of the suffering caused to its own people by Cyclone Nargis and calls on the United Nations Security Council to press the military junta to cooperate so that desperately needed aid can get through. 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Colm O’Gorman speaks about meeting Soraj, a 17-year-old survivor from Afghanistan who is playing a pivotal role fighting for an international treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs. 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Eleanor Roosevelt once said that human rights begin in ‘small places’. In the first of a series of Drivetime radio columns celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Colm O’Gorman introduces the UDHR and explains how our human rights begin in the home, the school, the hospital and our local community. Related Posts No related posts. In 1948, in a global effort to ensure that the inhumanity of the Second World War would never happen again, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)was passed and adopted by the United Nations without a single dissenting voice.  Colm [...]