Encourage your local council or community to adopt a local plans of action for advancing human rights, including allocating funds for activities such as human rights education

Produce a compilation of real-life stories of people who are working to realise their human rights

Try to place stories on the anniversary in your local newspaper or internet message board. Why not use the Human Rights Days messages issued by the UN Secretary-General or the High Commissioner for Human Rights?

Encourage local/regional media associations to organise competitions for the best published articles on local/regional human rights throughout the year

Hold seminars and/or speaking events that focus on issues such as the universality of human rights, their relevance in different religions, or the role of religious communities in the promotion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Host a film screening and discussion or coordinate a film festival highlighting one or several human rights

Arrange a poetry reading evening with locals reading their own poetry relating to human rights, as well as featuring readings of well-known poets’ writings on human rights

Ask local artists to create a piece on human rights and organise an exhibit to show the work

Organise a human rights stand at international/national/local book fairs to disseminate materials on human rights

Hold conferences, seminars or training for educators at all levels on the Universal Declaration and human rights more generally

Inaugurate an annual national human rights research award

Organise discussion events, debates, workshops or conferences on human rights during 2008 with experts from the UN, academia, government, NGOs or the private sector as guest speakers

Include specific activities on the Declaration in your curriculum. Make use of the human rights teaching materials available at www.un.org/cyberschoolbus and www.un.org/chronicle

Organise an art competition asking students to illustrate articles of the Declaration

Do you speak an uncommon language? The Universal Declaration has been translated into 369 national and local languages. Visit the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to see if your language is there (http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr). If it is, the OHCHR has asked for feedback on the translation. If your language is not listed, then you can contribute a new translation. Help spread the word!

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