New layer: Every Human has Rights
The “Every Human Has Rights” campaign aims to raise public awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 60 years ago this year by the United Nations. Until now, just countries have been signatories. The idea is to get people to read it and sign it too, so that everyone can know their fundamental human rights.
The campaign now has a default layer up on Google Earth. At the top of each placemark you’ll find an outtake from the declaration, and what it means. Below it, bios of some of the many people who have stood up for human rights, often amid great adversity:
Human rights are something that I feel strongly about, so I’m very happy to have been involved in the creation of this layer. (If you hate the design of the placemark popups, you can blame me:-) The layer itself was constructed using an early version of the Google Outreach Spreadsheet Mapper, with help from Google developers.
Content was collected from a range of NGOs supporting the campaign, which is being spearheaded by The Elders and by Realizing Rights.
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Hi Stefan,
This is a good and interesting read and a very worthy cause!
I am currently trying to add a Google Outreach layer to the Global Awareness layers for EIA International.
I have searched Google Outreach high and low to find out how this can be done but just don't seem to be able to find anything.
If you could give some tips on how you achieved this I would be very grateful.
Regards,
Kevin Cressy
kcressy@GISproactive.com
Posted by: Kevin Cressy at 22:48 UTC, May 13, 2008
I'm just curious who chooses to put the "Every Human Has Rights" tag in which country. I'm am very surprised that Israel has two but Sudan has 0! Russia has 0, Syria has 0, indeed most of the Middle Eastern countries have 0 tags and most of those countries violate human rights every day. Is there any objectivity to the placement of these tags, and again, who makes that decision?
Posted by: Mike at 5:17 UTC, July 08, 2008
Mike...you have to remember. Everyone in the world is noble and clean as the wind driven snow. Of course with the exception of Israel and the US.
Objectivity in todays world? I see rare cases of it's use anymore.
KoS
Posted by: KoS at 17:23 UTC, July 10, 2008
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