A whole different way of Coming Out Actions are Illegal, Never People: Jose Antonio Vargas Jose Antonio Vargas, an award-winning multimedia storyteller, is the founder of Define American, a campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration. Born in the Philippines, Vargas immigrated to the United States at age 12. Stunning the media and political circles and attracting world-wide coverage, Vargas wrote the groundbreaking essay, My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, for the New York Times Magazine in the summer of 2011. A year later, he was the author (and subject) of a cover story for TIME magazine headlined We are Americans — just not legally. Watch the TedX Lecture here: youtu.be/tmz9cCF0KNE --- Rights are inalienable they are NOT grants by states because what a state may grant it may also deny and denial of an inalienable human right is a contradiction of the inalienable character of the right in the first place. Your rights are guaranteed in international and national law by The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, December 10, 1948, and The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 which includes ecological and economic rights. In the former, the principal doctrine is that of self-determination. (See UN Charter and the International Covenants on Human Rights, inter alia). Then, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 15(2) and article 21(3), sanctions the legal expression of individual will as the basis of government. In national law, many constitutions refer specifically to fundamental human rights, i.e. the U.S. Bill of Rights, as inalienable and therefore irrevocable by any relative government. Certain US case law histories, FILARTIGA V. PENA-IRALA, 630 F.2d (2d Cir. 1980), for instance, have used the UDHR as common binding international law. Ref., art 56, UN Charter & article 13(2), UDHR. Specifically article 13 (1) which entered into international law via Resolution 217A (III) of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. 3(pt.1) GAOR Resolutions (A/810) at 71 - 77 as quoted below from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948 at at the Palais de Chaillot, on Paris (France) that represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled: Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. Furthermore: Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. Read together with Article 27 of the The Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons adopted on 28 September 1954 and entered into force on 6 June 1960. Article 27 Identity papers The Contracting States shall issue identity papers to any stateless person in their territory who does not possess a valid travel document. Whilst bearing in mind article article 14 of the which entered into international law via Resolution 217A (III) of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. 3(pt.1) GAOR Resolutions (A/810) at 71 - 77 as quoted below from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948 at at the Palais de Chaillot, on Paris (France) Article 14. (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. The word enjoy is ambiguous and non-legal. It does not oblige a country to grant asylum to a persecuted individual. On the other hand, what a state can grant it can also deny. But the denial of a human right is a contradiction of the inalienable character of that right in the first place. If human rights are inalienable and inherent in the character of being human, they depend on their affirmation by the human concerned. Therefore the above article contains its own sovereign power. This means in turn that the right of asylum is not one of horizontal deplacement and safeguarding by another state, but a vertical claim of planetary asylum from the oppressive nation state system itself. Political asylum on the planetary level is a necessity brought about by the persecutory nature of the nation-state system itself. Universal political asylum stems from the recognition of rights for the human race, such as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Nuremberg Principles and the Genocide Convention. Therefore, the claim of asylum can be made only by the individual who has FIRST claimed a Universal civic status. That status of Universal citizenship in turn is legally grounded in your individual sovereignty to choose the government you wish and know can protect your rights. Article 21. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. Join the Conversation on Migrants rights Have you ever had trouble crossing an international border? Made to wait too long, or refused entry? Questioned aggressively by overly-suspicious border officials? Made to feel small, insignificant, humiliated by the state-sponsored guardians of the frontier? Send your story to: https://facebook/pages/World-Citizen-Friendship-Ring/175981802603754 And we will be glad to share it with people who care. One of the first recipients of the Universal Citizen Passport (Taslima Nasrin) talks: https://facebook/photo.php?v=245091875692746&set=vb.175981802603754&type=2&theaterhttps%3A%2F%2Ffacebook%2Fphoto.php%3Fv=245091875692746&theater Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন; also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bengali author and former physician who has lived in exile since 1994. From a literary profile as a poet in the late 1980s, she rose to global fame by the end of the 20th century owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in general. See a Real Universal Citizen Passport here https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=246747582193842&set=pcb.246748242193776&type=1&theater #WorldCitizen #Refugee #citoyenuni #Stateless #JacquesRudolph #WorldPassport #GarryDavis #LiberOz #Bahai #Statelessness #TaslimaNasreen #Burmese #Rohingya #Islam #FreeTravel #UN #WorldPeace #Interfaith #MouvementUtopia #FondationFranceLibertés #EmmaüsInternational #AmnestyInternational #Malala #PeaceOneDay #Palestine #Israel #ASEAN #Thailand #SouthAfrica #WorldCup
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