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World Voices Project
World Voices Project Is A Mosaic of Recordings of people reading the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their native language. Currently 60 Languages can be heard on this web site.
The mission of World Voices Project is to inspire people throughout the world to stand up for one another. The short video to the left reflects my desire to reach young people; to encourage them to grow up embracing people’s differences instead of fearing them, to appreciate other cultures and other ways of life which will hopefully lead to respecting our mutual rights.
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world voices project
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified and signed by the member states of the United Nations n 1948. It was spearheaded by then UN Human Rights Commissioner Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Project
World Voices Project began as a creative piece about language, sound and the beauty of voices. It became a project about the human family speaking as one.
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The Languages
Sixty languages were recorded, mostly in the melting pot of the United States : New York.
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The Installation
The Installation had an opportunity to be heard first at the South Street Seaport, third floor atrium, then at Horace Mann school in Yonkers, and again at Mercy Corps in Battery Park. It now exists solely online.
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Previous Work
Not a lot, but one track that inspires me..”Our Dreams.” It speaks of our common humanity. Other film work can be found at www.BrendaRayFilms.com
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Articles of The
Human Rights Declaration
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 1Sub Articles(20)
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with…
Article 2Sub Articles(13)
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction…
Article 4Sub Articles(17)
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be…
Article 5Sub Articles(19)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6Sub Articles(20)
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7Sub Articles(8)
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of…
Article 8Sub Articles(6)
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating…
Article 10Sub Articles(14)
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and…
Article 11Sub Articles(7)
1. Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved…
Article 12Sub Articles(13)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor…
Article 13Sub Articles(11)
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each…
Article 14Sub Articles(8)
1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.…
Article 15Sub Articles(6)
1. Everyone has the right to a nationality. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of…
Article 16Sub Articles(6)
1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion,…
Article 17Sub Articles(10)
1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.…
Article 18Sub Articles(9)
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to…
Article 19Sub Articles(9)
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold…
Article 20Sub Articles(10)
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. 2. No one may…
Article 21Sub Articles(6)
1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or…
Article 22Sub Articles(5)
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to…
Article 23Sub Articles(4)
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable…
Article 24Sub Articles(5)
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic…
Article 25Sub Articles(10)
1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being…
Article 26Sub Articles(7)
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary…
Article 27Sub Articles(8)
1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to…
Article 28Sub Articles(6)
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set…
Article 29Sub Articles(6)
1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of…
Article 30Sub Articles(8)
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any…
Video Gallery
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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World Voices Project@ SouthStSeaport
People's responses to World Voices Project premiere exhibit in New York.
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UDHR Part 1
Above you can watch the UDHR spoken in fifty languages with…
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UDHR Part 2
The Declaration of Human Rights: Article 5-21
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