DUTY TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31762, 20 August 1968, Page 3

DUTY TO ENSURE HUMAN RIGHTS

This was the International year of Human Rights and where there was a right there was a duty for someone else, the Dominion chairman of the Red Cross Society (the Rt Rev. Monsignor G. V. Daly) said at the annual meeting of the North Canterbury Junior Red Cross yesterday. Everybody, no matter what their colour, creed or financial position, had the same rights as New Zealanders had. “We live In a country where most of our rights are looked after, but there are countries, some of them not far from here, that are not so fortunate. There are children there who have nothing, except their rights,” Monsignor Daly said. “If there are human rights —and there are—you are your brother’s keeper.”

Where there was want, there was the Red Cross, and where there was the Red Cross, there was the Junior Red Cross. But there were others who were not so well educated, who conveniently forgot about their duty, Monsignor Daly said. “‘All men are brothers’ is not a silly saying; it is true. ‘Love they neighbour as thyself* is what we must do if people are to have the rights they deserve as human beings.”