February 1, 2006 Inside The New York Public Library. Research Recording Following Documentation Into Little Known Existence Of Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. “A short while ago the “Universal Declaration Of Human Rights” was brought to my attention. I was completely unaware that this document even breathed life into our world today in 2006. It wasn’t until I took the time to read it in it’s totality that I realized just how much these articles and “rights” offered to all of us as human beings, and how so many people around the world much like myself, were completely unaware that something of this nature even existed. I couldn’t help but wonder; If I wasn’t aware of this until now, if no one had told me, then no one is telling millions of people around the world who can’t read, who can’t access a book, a computer, and they are at this very moment being raped, harmed, abused, and even killed because of it. If this document is as it says, to be something powerful enough to allow protection in a court of law for simply being alive and being a human being, then why has it been kept secret after all of these years? What is it’s history? What is the truth behind it? Why did some countries where some of the most brutal killings and injustices against humanity take place and are still taking place right now, notably Darfur, Africa, Russia, and China, reject this declaration immediately on face? Why isn’t anyone fighting for them, for this? Why has it taken a slip discovery on my own behalf of a document proclaiming so many rights that so many struggle all their lives for and some even become imprisoned for unjust reasons over, to discover that we may be unaware of so many things in this world that no one is telling us – until we take it upon ourselves to find out on our own. For those answers I embarked upon a quest, a journey for answers. I wanted to know why, and how it can come back, be re-written for current times and offer the amount of justice and rights that it speaks about when it was first visualized back in the early 1940’s. Since being “adopted by the UN” it still hasn’t been clearly explained to the common man and woman, and for that, I wanted to know why. Now when so many need it most, can this simple declaration change the course of hundreds, thousands, even millions of innocent lives that may never know of their god given rights until someone sticks their neck out and does the work on their behalf. That is what I want to find out, and that is what I intend to do. This recording marks the first research trip into the New York Public Library to find the actual document itself, to find out if it is even alive anymore in 2006. The research for human rights and their secrets began. This recording is to demonstrate the extreme sensitivity behind even getting access to this document, it’s history, and studying it’s reason for being created in the first place. I’m on a mission to find out the truth, to bring it to others so it may hopefully help them if indeed that is what this was intended to do in the very beginning. If not, I can say that I tried and wanted to know more to see just maybe if there was an ounce of hope and justice for those whom go their entire lives feeling alone. These broadcasts and podcasts will document my research and anything else I may turn up regarding this specific issue in addition to all other regular messages and updates. Written in 1948, your universal declaration of human rights.” Download and read The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Update: ...”While it is not a legally binding document, it served as the foundation for the original two legally-binding UN human rights Covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. It continues to be widely cited by academics, advocates, and constitutional courts. International lawyers often debate which of its provisions can be said to represent customary international law. Opinions vary widely on this question, from very few provisions to the entire declaration… Copyright © 2006 Jamie Leigh, JamieLeigh.Net Less