{"id":2758,"date":"2012-12-04T23:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2013-01-14T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T23:09:53","slug":"human-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN RIGHTS DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">MONDAY 10<sup>TH<\/sup> DECEMBER  2012<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span>VIGIL FOR  AFGHANISTAN<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Stop the War  Naming the Dead event in Trafalgar Square 7.10.12: soldiers\u2019 families and MPs  say bring troops home by Christmas<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">This Monday 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 2012 &#8211; Human Rights  Day &#8211; peace and human rights activists in the  Norwich area will be holding a vigil calling for a  ceasefire in  Afghanistan and remembering the 2  million Afghans who have died in the last 32 years of war. This event will be  part of an initiative from the Afghan Peace Volunteers \u2013   Kabul .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The current 11-year war has  seen <strong>tens of  thousands of Afghans and hundreds of  UK soldiers killed &#8211; and continuing  to die &#8211; in a futile and unjustified<\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong>war.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Paddy  Ashdown, in the first such statement by a senior British politician, joined Stop  the War Coalition and anti-war activists in calling for all British  troops<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>to come  home immediately<span style=\"font-size: small;\">. <\/span><\/strong>While the  UK government is committed to a timetable of  withdrawing most of Britain &#8216;s  9,000 troops from  Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Lord  Ashdown said the only rational policy was to leave quickly.\u00a0 He warned that the only outcome of  staying longer was more deaths for no purpose, highlighting the increasing  number of Nato troops being killed by those wearing Afghan army or police  uniform<span style=\"font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">We shall be  assembling at the Haymarket,  Norwich on Monday 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 5pm  till 6.30pm. You are welcome to join us.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Important Note:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> To sign and promote the online  petition calling for a ceasefire in  Afghanistan go to:-<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/en-GB\/petitions\/2-million-friends-call-on-the-u-n-for-a-ceasefire-in-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">https:\/\/www.change.org\/en-GB\/petitions\/2-million-friends-call-on-the-u-n-for-a-ceasefire-in-afghanistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2012 VIGIL FOR AFGHANISTAN Stop the War Naming the Dead event in Trafalgar Square 7.10.12: soldiers\u2019 families and MPs say bring troops home by Christmas &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- This Monday 10th December 2012 &#8211; Human Rights Day &#8211; peace and human rights activists in the Norwich area will be holding a vigil calling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}