IRNA – Iranian terror victims said in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein that human dignity is the core of human rights.


According to Public Relations of the Association Advocating Victims of Terrorism honored anniversary of adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 as a turning point.

The letter said that the international organizations and the international criminal court and governments are obliged to implement the lofty goal of the 1948 human rights convention and respect the human dignity.

Although war and crimes have never ended to date, but, the human dignity is revered only by documents of the international organizations, designation of such a day is reminiscent of sufferings of the international community to achieve a global charter on human rights. It also has provided an opportunity for the human rights activists across the world to join hands to safeguard human dignity and achieve peace, the fundamental human rights.

After a lapse of 67 years since the approval of the declaration, global community still looks to future with hope and apprehension; fear for war and war crimes and hope for a future with human dignity as reality not as a slogan, the letter said.

The Association Advocatng Victims of Terrorism expressed concern over human rights violations, pointing out that humanitarian catastrophes are worsening in the world day by day.

The victims of terrorism urge the international community to bring to justice perpetrators of terror crimes to alleviate their sufferings, the letter said.