{"id":69452,"date":"2016-02-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69452"},"modified":"2016-02-06T00:53:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:53:23","slug":"human-rights-human-rights-a-poem-plea-to-humankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/human-rights-human-rights-a-poem-plea-to-humankind\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights, Human Rights: A Poem-Plea to Humankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nYou have been violated how many thousands of days and nights?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nFor your assurance, have there been how many thousand fights?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nTo how many communities in conflict have you brought conciliatory lights?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nTo countries at war, have you brought diplomatically inspiring insights?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nAbout your dignifying role in local\/global political history who writes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nWell beyond your powerful voice in the Universal Declaration<br \/>\nwhen will you help bring about a Civilization(al) transformation?<br \/>\n________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights, Human Rights<br \/>\nYou have been violated how many thousands of days and nights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452","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=69452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}