Human Rights Declaration to be read in seven languages in Lviv

Location: Lviv City Hall observation deck

Time: 12:00, December 10

December 10, on the International Human Rights Day, the public activists, journalists, and human rights activists will read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in seven languages at the Lviv City Hall observation deck.

The declaration will be read in Ukrainian, English, Norwegian, French, Russian, and Crimean Tatar languages, to remind the governments of all countries about their responsibility for upholding the human rights. In addition, poster reading the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be hung in the “single window” administrative service center of the Lviv City Council.

The action aims to promote the values enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights and to show the solidarity with Ukrainian citizens Nadiya Savchenko and Oleg Sentsov and Azerbaijani lawyer Intigam Aliyev.

The initiator of the event is NGO “Institute of Mass Information,” which protects the rights of journalists.

The action was joined by the local NGOs “Crimea-SOS”, “Fulcrum”, “Center for Social Initiatives ATOM”, Plast Lviv center, journalists, human rights activists, students.

The action is supported by the U.S. human rights organization Freedom House, Human Rights House Network – Kyiv, and Human Rights Information Center.