International Solidarity for Human Rights, Inc: 11.09

standing L to R: Maria Cristina Alarcon, Lilly Blanco, Elizabeth Sanchez Vegas, Isabel Viera & Ana Maria Leonardi / sitting L to R: Maria Marta Ruano-Graham, GWR Adjudicator, & Devorah Sasha

On Tuesday , November 3rd, six women began a 10-day marathon in an attempt to break a Guinness World Records™ record, while reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At 6pm on November 12th, the standing record of 224 hours was broken! The team of six women continued to read until the following morning, establishing a NEW Longest Reading Aloud Marathon by a Team Guinness World Records™ record of 240 hours, 15 minutes and 27 seconds!

E. Roosevelt

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?

In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."

11/14/2009

ISHR SETS A NEW GUINNESS WORLD RECORD