Are you committed to human rights?

This resolution was written by more about 40 young human rights activists across the globe who met in Italy on 28 April-8 May 2011 at the "Global Intergenerational Forum: Empowering Young Leaders to be Agents of Positive Change (European Region). Whilst the forum is region specific, we all recognise that there are human rights issues that we all share. And in a globalised world, whatever we do affects the whole.

We can only speak up. We can only work together to uphold our human rights.

First they came for Communists
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.

They came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.

They came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me,
and by that time the was no one
left to speak for me."
--Reve. Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)