Human Rights – a journey through genres and languages

10.12.2024

To kick off Human Rights Day on FREIRAD, we are taking you on a literary, musical and multilingual journey into the diversity of human rights.

First, Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner present a special edition of Poetry Cafe, in which they address human rights in a variety of genres.

Texts read & Music played

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 (1948)
2. Extracts from ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) by George Orwell
3. ‘National Botherhood Week’ by Tom Lehrer
4. ‘No man is an island…’ by John Donne
5. Reference to the Tiroler Tageszeitung (Sat Nov 19, 2022)
6. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14, Section 1
7. ‘I am a rock’ (Paul Simon, of Simon and Garfunkel)
8. ‘Imagine’ (John Lennon)

Afterwards, we present you with a reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in a selection of languages.

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