Human Rights

Background

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document lists what the UN believes should be fundamental rights for all people, and strongly urges for them to be recognized by all countries.

The Club

IC Human Right's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

In pursuit of this vision, Ithaca College's Human Rights mission is to educate students and community members so that they may prevent and end abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, freedom from discrimination, and other international human rights crises.

Ithaca College Human Rights is non-partisan and not affiliated with any specific political ideology, economic interest or religion. They are are solely concerned with the protection of human rights.