US human rights demonstration against war on Venezuela
In 1948, the only human rights agreement embraced by all nations was signed, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It affirms that every person is born with equal dignity and rights, and its basis was the code of the French Revolution, also called the Napoleonic Code.
Many ideas added were inspired by the decline of monarchism and the rise of socialism after World War I, and the failures of fascism and the shortcomings of liberalism shown by World War II.
In most of the world, the United States isn't usually associated with defending human rights, but with violence and transgression, and protesters gathered to denounce President Donald Trump's menacing build up for possible war on Venezuela.
It's a very authoritarian way of operating, and the world sees right through it.
It seems like we just have so much military and financial power that there's not much that that our allies really are caring to do about it either. [sic]
Protestor 01
Decades of sanctions aimed at destabilizing Venezuela into a right-wing civil war haven't worked; consequently, the US has assembled its largest Caribbean Armada since 1962 with airstrikes possible at any moment.
Maduro, who's lost citizens to our terrorist attacks on Venezuela, has to react sometime, because what he's showing is his weakness and he's not showing his sovereignty.
When a country gets attacked like this they have to do something, like Iran had to react to Israel and the United States doing something.
Tighe Barry, CodePink
Polls show that almost 70% of the American public is opposed to Trump taking military action in Venezuela.
A poll released in June, on the day of Washington's illegal strikes on Iran's nuclear energy program, showed that 85% of the United States didn't want to be at war with Iran.
That indicates that the figure of 70% would likely rise should trump start attacks on Venezuelan soil.
In 1993, the first UN Human Rights Conference since the end of the Cold War was held in Vienna.
The resulting declaration emphasized the universal rights to sovereignty and non-interference.
It was not signed by the United States.
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