Important Dates in the Month of December

 December 10th is International Human Rights Day.

 December 31st is Watch Night.

December 10th was International Human Rights Day. According to the United Nations site, Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status...This year’s Human Rights Day theme relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all, address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19, and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched, systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and discrimination. 10 December is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and shared humanity.”

I first heard about Watch Night in the Sincerely, Lettie podcast episode “Words for 2020, Watch Night, & the History of New Year's Day.” Lettie explained, “There are New Year’s Eve parties, there are New Year’s Day celebrations, but there’s also a very troubling side to the history whenever it comes to New Year’s Eve and also New Year’s Day.” To learn more about Watch Night, you can read the article “Watch Night Service in the Black Church in America: 150 Years After the Emancipation Proclamation” by Rev. Joan R. Harrell.

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