Trailblazers: UN’s ‘founding mothers’ remind all people to stand up for human rights

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home,” said Anna Fierst, quoting her great-grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech of 1958, in which she highlighted the number of ordinary citizens determined to be active in their local neighbourhoods, schools, and factories.

“Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere,” she continued, highlighting the vital importance of the rule of law and civil society activism today in protection of human rights.

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