Understanding human rights & the rules of war
We're all in this together
Our experience as holistic home herbalists expands our awareness around the world, as we connect with our world family of herbalists. Holistic home herbalism acknowledges and supports every culture's relationship to the land and every individual's right to peace and freedom. We know that human rights apply to everyone, everywhere, all the time, no matter what.
Holistic thinking is a willingness to see the interconnections, to find our place in things, and then to activate and leverage our power to do what we can.
As holistic home herbalists, we know that our apothecaries connect us to ecosystems and cultures around the world.
We view community holistically. We know that community includes Nature and our world family of herbalists. We stand up for human rights and for Mother Earth, and our day to day choices reflect these commitments.
Understanding human rights can be very grounding and important during times of international stress.
Seeing things through a lens of human rights can help us understand what we're seeing, in current events, and can help to focus us and to inspire us to take some kind of action.
Understanding human rights
The International Declaration of Human Rights was created by the global community, in the aftermath of the terrible events of World War 2. This Declaration is an attempt to avoid anything like that ever happening again. Human rights apply to everyone. These are the rights that we have, simply because we were born.
- The International Declaration of Human Rights
- The Emergency Watchlist report is the International Rescue Committee’s assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergencies each year.
Understanding the rules of war
The rules of war are also known as International Humanitarian Law. The rules of war include many documents signed over the years by many different countries. Some of these are United Nations documents. Some are from the Red Cross. Others are simply a product of the world community coming together to create change on a global level. The following are an exploration of three of these important global resources.
- International Committee of the Red Cross Rules of Belligerent Occupation
- The United Nations Six Grave Violations
- understanding The Geneva Convention
