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Distributing human rights booklets. The Church�s public awareness campaign includes getting educational booklets on human rights into the hands of the public.
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Believing that greater awareness of human rights will lead to greater application of human rights principles, the Church of Scientology International has for many years held events and rallies to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In 1998, observing that even in Europe many people were losing their jobs and suffering other forms of discrimination solely because of their beliefs and ethnicity, the Church launched a campaign to increase public understanding of human rights.
Its first phase was a series of annual marathons through Europe and the United States. Since 1998, Church members have run a total of more than 20,000 kilometers through almost 100 cities, meeting with prominent officials and leaders and distributing publications and leaflets promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Italian city mayor reaffirms his commitment to human rights.
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Meeting thousands of people, the marathoners have acquainted most of them for the first time with the details of this fundamental human rights charter and what these rights mean.
Over the last few years, the human rights marathons have crossed Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France and Britain.
Human rights booklet distribution in Paris.
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As part of its human rights educational programs, the Church has also published tens of thousands of publications in twenty languages that teach people their basic rights.
Agreeing with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that “Large-scale human rights violations are not merely the product of civil and ethnic conflict, they are also a major cause of such conflicts,” the Church has focused in many of its publications on showing how human rights are an educational tool to bring peace.
Cycling for human rights in Stockholm.
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The need to resolve conflicts that foster violence and wars is so urgent, in fact, that in 2003 and 2004 the Church conducted a Europe-wide awareness campaign. It utilized billboards, posters and advertisements in Britain, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Belgium, with informational messages appearing in major newspapers from Spain’s El Mundo to Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung to Russia’s Izvestia.
A series of advertisements advocating human rights was also run in several pan-European publications including the International Herald Tribune, European Voice, and the European editions of Time and Newsweek.
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