Abstract Human Rights Day Observance Hosted by Holocaust Museum Houston (5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77004) Admission free and open to the public Paid parking available at onsite lot, and free street parking available on surrounding streets.The Holocaust Museum Houston and Rothko Chapel hosted an early celebration of International Human Rights Day. Human Rights Day is observed every year on the December 10th, which is the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly...

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Jimmy Carter Holdings include videos of a question and answer session with Jimmy Carter (topics include corporal punishment in schools, equal opportunity quotas in higher education, energy conservation, disparities between rich and poor nations, Nicaragua human rights, civil disobedience when God's law contradicts government's law, Iran, immigration, third world debt)

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Speaker: Bob Eckhardt, Congressman

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Speaker: Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, Ambassador from Ghana to United Nations, UN Special Committee Against Apartheid

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initiated by students from the Guadalupe School for Undocumented Children. Eighty-five youngsters prayed, sang and shared their thoughts in English and Spanish,

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Speaker: Dr. Cronid Lubarsky, exiled Soviet scientist and human rights advocate, editotr of U.S.S.R. news brief

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Speaker Leonel Castillo, Commissioner- US Immigration and Naturalization Service

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Nthato Motlana, 37th Anniversary

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Guest speaker: Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

Abstract Spirit Matters Series "The Humanity of Soldiers: Spiritual Injury and the Right of Moral Conscience in War" Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph.D.Chapel co-founder Dominique de Menil built her life according to the belief that spiritual forces are of consequence in real world affairs. She insisted that a capacity for reverence was essential to successfully advancing justice. And yet, contemporary religious forces often seem to be at odds with human rights concerns. Though the passion for...