http://www.theta.com/This forum provides a means for organizations to express their views and to advance the cause of human rights around the world.en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssTampa, Florida-Sponsored by the Church of Scientology of Tampa, Youth for Human Rights of Tampa Bay helped guarantee a vital human right to an entire camp of refugees in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo-the Right to Life. They did this by raising enough money to provide bed nets for some 200 refugees.http://www.theta.com/youth-issues/20091028_yi_1.phpSt. Mark United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles and the Church of Scientology of Inglewood co-sponsored the Second Annual Hate Crimes Conference on October 27 and a workshop on November 3 to educate leaders of faith-based and community-based groups on underlying causes of anti-religious hate crime.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20091104_hre_1.phpScientology Churches in cities around the world observe the United Nations-designated International Day for Tolerance Monday, November 16 with petition drives calling on their countries to mandate human rights education.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20091114_hre_1.phpScientology Volunteers in Sydney circulated a petition at Sydney Town Hall November 16, calling for mandatory human rights education in Australia to eliminate human rights abuses. One of the worst abuses is the criminal practice of human trafficking in the country. As many as 27 million are enslaved in the world today according to the United Nations, earning perpetrators upwards of $34 billion Australian annually.http://www.theta.com/human-trafficking/20091117_ht_1.phpAmsterdam-Scientology volunteers, determined to end blatant disregard for human rights, circulated a petition on the International Day for Tolerance November 16 to demand education on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in all Netherlands schools. In fact, Scientologists from Australia to Zimbabwe and Canada to Taiwan work in their communities to educate people on human rights and their responsibility for implementing them, not only for themselves, but for others as well.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20091119_hre_1.phpScientology Churches and their members, from Australia to Zimbabwe and Canada to the Ukraine celebrate the rights of children by demanding action by private citizens and governments on International Children's Day. Twenty years ago the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet millions of children still die each year from preventable causes.http://www.theta.com/youth-issues/20091121_yi_1.phpScientology volunteers across France are promoting human rights education, in support of the United Nations International Year of Human Rights Learning that began on December 10, 2008. The day is also marked as Human Rights Day, in honor of the United Nation's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, a document drafted by a UN Committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20091209_hre_1.phpDespite all our resources in the 21st Century, as you read these words, some 20 armed conflicts are being waged on Earth. According to U.S. government estimates, between 600,000 and 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders each year, with millions more forced, duped, or coerced into slavery within their own borders.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20070326_hre_1.phpThe Scientology Creed begins with the statement, "We of the Church believe that all men or whatever race, color or creed were created with equal rights." And it was in that spirit that the Church of Scientology of Spain hosted a human rights forum at its Madrid headquarters last month - to accomplish these ideals by providing some of most prominent figures in the field the opportunity to share their ideas and coordinate their activities.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20070315_hre_1.phpWhen you order a Big Mac in Kiev in the Ukraine now, it not only comes with a coke and fries but a human rights message as well, as the Youth for Human Rights International public service announcements (PSAs) are airing every day in every McDonald's in that city.http://www.theta.com/human-rights-education/20070314_hre_1.php