The Nativity story - a modern-day human rights tale | open Democracy News Analysis
Having just attended my boys' nativity plays (well done everyone at All Children's Primary in Newcastle, Co Down!) my mind wanders to the series of flagrant human rights abuses related in the biblical tale and how they might be experienced in the present day…
First off, Joseph and Mary's right to marry and found a family life, as articulated in Article 23 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, has arguably been hindered by the forced relocation to Bethlehem for a census ordered by the Executive power, King Herod.
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