All Time High Murder Rate Inspired Boston`s Youth For Human Rights Director`s Trip to DC
Released on = June 23, 2006, 12:58 pm
Press Release Author = Boston Youth for Human Rights
Industry = Education
Press Release Summary = Kelly Riley, Boston\'s Director for Youth For Human Rights met with Senator Edward Kennedy\'s office to discuss the potential of how the Youth For Human Right\'s program could diminish Boston\'s crime rate.
Press Release Body = Washington, D.C.- June 23, 2006 -- Kelly Riley, Boston\'s Director for Youth For Human Rights met with Senator Edward Kennedy\'s office to discuss the potential of how the Youth For Human Right\'s program could diminish Boston\'s crime rate.
Ms.Riley and Kennedy\'s office had a lengthy discussion about implementing the Youth for Human Rights\' lesson plans in to Boston and other Massachusetts schools. \"Teens must demand that their schools and streets are safe, Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, \'We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety\'. Ms. Riley feels we need to start this in our own neighborhoods and international. She said that \"The premise of this program, is that educating individuals in their basic human rights creates more compassionate and tolerant societies\" Youth for Human Rights International was founded by educator and school principal Mary Shuttleworth in August 2001 as a project of the International Foundation forHuman Rights and Tolerance, with the expressed goal to implement L. Ron Hubbard's statement, "Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream."
Riley hopes to inspire teens to use their knowledge of the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights to start taking action in their community programs and with local law enforcement to take back the streets and aim for peace. She encourages teachers, youth group leaders, parents and other teen empowerment groups to become involved by contacting http://www.youthforhumanrights.org
Ms. Riley believes that Kofi Annan had it right when he said, \"Young friends all over the world, you are the ones who must realize these rights, now and for all time. Their fate and future is in your hands.\"
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Web Site = http://www.youthforhumanrights.org
Contact Details = Kelly Riley Boston MA Kelly-Riley@usa.net 617-699-6243