by Susan | Nov 17, 2015 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. Leading up to the 67th...
by Susan | Nov 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 17, 1734 Newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested and imprisoned for seditious libel against New York Governor William Cosby. His lawyers, Andrew Hamilton and William Smith, Sr., successfully argued that truth is a defense against charges of libel,...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2015 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1) Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2015 | Monuments
In Peace Pilgrim Park you will find a serpentine waterway, a peace pole, a butterfly garden, a gazebo, picnic benches, memorial plaque/stone, and a few acres of grass to wonder around and explore. This park is maintained by the Friends of Peace Pilgrim in her memory....
by Susan | Nov 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 16, 1989 Six Jesuit priests — Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín Baró, Segundo Montes, Joaquín López y López, Amando López and Juan Ramón Moreno — their housekeeper, Elba Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina, were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained and...
