Most of us have heard the saying “a picture is worth 1,000 words”. This map lives up to that saying. It reflects the outcome of the plan for humanity that Eleanor Lives! is working to achieve. Using Rousseau’s standard of “taking humans as they are, and making the laws as they might be,” there is no better plan for humanity than the one reflected in this map.
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2023 Jan 4 Map of Regional Courts
If you have a better plan, please share it, and collect your €5,000. If not, I ask you to engage with and share this one.
In 25 years of studying and working to make the rights in the UDHR “juridical” (As I promised a former Dean of the Berkeley Law School, Frank Newman, I would do), 
I’ve never heard anyone articulate a better plan for enforceable human rights than this map coupled with the draft International Bill of Rights on the website.
It was understood when the UDHR was created that there would need to be Regional Courts to enforce rights, and the European Court of Human Rights is a prime example. As John Humphrey, the Canadian professor who did much of the research for the UDHR has written, “if the international community ever becomes really serious about human rights, the European example will be applied on the universal scale.” This map shows how that can happen.
Humanity must exercise its free will over the authoritarians who continue to dominate nation states, and much of this world’s valuable resources, including human resources.
We either make stronger rules for those who govern, and create independent courts that have the power to exercise judgments against those them, or we all live with continued despotism and environmental ruin. Blame and shame will never be enough. As Einstein said “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity” – just look at the Ukraine – Putin declared he would not follow the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. The answer is not to say “courts don’t work,” but to make them stronger.
Also, the repetitive creation of new human rights instruments that do no more than require more reports should stop. It’s time to demand enforceable documents and object if something less than that is created.
At some point in humanity’s evolution, leaders of all countries must be responsible to Courts with independent Judges to enforce the rights that humans have reserved for themselves through Bills of Rights. A Bill of Rights gives limited power to those who govern. This is a conservative fundamental principle.
In 2023, the 75th anniversary of the UDHR, all human rights organizations, philanthropies, academics, and civil rights groups in all countries should bind together to use their collective clout and become “lights for rights” on the Eleanor Lives! spinning globe to show their support for the UDHR on its 75th anniversary. The framers of the UDHR always an intended linkage between the UDHR and the Courts depicted in this map. 2023 is the time to link the two.
Thanks for helping to make this happen.
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