{"id":20350,"date":"2012-07-30T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=20350"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:29:58","slug":"rhymed-reflections-dignity-in-human-rights-and-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/07\/rhymed-reflections-dignity-in-human-rights-and-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhymed Reflections: Dignity in Human Rights, Literature and Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Dignity in Human Rights<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human Rights educators\/practitioners,<\/p>\n<p>In your advocacy, efforts, initiatives for\/in\/through \u00a0Human Rights, much<br \/>\nmore dignity you can bring<br \/>\nwhen you think of Human Rights not only as an inspiring, sustainable<br \/>\nTradition of humanizing potentialities<br \/>\nwhen songs of individually\/collectively dignifying actions for the<br \/>\ngood of Humankind you can sing<br \/>\nand by supporting emerging rights, such as The Right to Peace, you<br \/>\nfurther dignify Society`s responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dignity in Literature<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary authors,<\/p>\n<p>to your imaginative verbal art\u00a0more dignity you can bring<br \/>\nwhen through \u00a0prose or poetry texts a universe \u00a0of human-improving<br \/>\nideas and images you represent,<br \/>\nsongs of \u00a0compassion, dignity, equality, interdependence and peace you<br \/>\ninvite \u00a0your readers to sing<br \/>\nand by transcending \u00a0traditions and trends, new forms \u00a0of<br \/>\nDIGNIliterariness you farsightedly \u00a0represent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dignity in Spirituality<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As spiritual beings,<\/p>\n<p>to our spirituality, more dignity we can bring<br \/>\nwhen beliefs, values and practices in all religious systems we respect<br \/>\nwhen songs that strengthen community-spiritually-serving we can sing<br \/>\nby realizing that dignity embedded in faith we can deeply prospect.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos is a peace linguist and human rights educator from Recife-Brazil, author,<\/em><em> among others, of the book<\/em> Nurturing Nonkilling: A Poetic Plantation (<em>2010, Center for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu-Hawai\u2019i). Downloadable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonkilling.org\"  target=\"_blank\">www.nonkilling.org<\/a><em>. Co-founder: The World Dignity University Initiative.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights educators\/practitioners,<br \/>\nIn your advocacy, efforts, initiatives for\/in\/through  Human Rights, much<br \/>\nmore dignity you can bring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}