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This is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Human Rights and today was observed as World Human Rights Day. Activists had an all day session of activities at the House of Culture and they encouraged students to join in the dialogue. Antoinette Moore and Simeon Sampson, two attorneys who have become champions of the downtrodden, said that human rights in Belize are more relevant than ever – in fact while we might not know it – those are the everyday issues that people are grappling with.

Simeon Sampson, Human Rights Activist
“Human rights issue, economic, social, and now the bombshell of the times.”

Antonette Moore, Human Rights Activist
“Human rights start when you are born, you have the right to life and the right to protection of security and life all the way to death. Human rights have to do when you are a child, when you are an adult with respect to your expression, your freedoms of religion, your right to work as Mr. Sampson just said.”

Simeon Sampson,
“All aspects of human rights we are here to champion and we are here to identify to the sleeping public that may not be aware. That is the purpose of forums like these to get into the mind of the public what aspect of human rights exist and it is there for them, less they may not know it. Our job now is to make them realize.”