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International Bill of Rights
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Education is the most powerful weapon
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- Nelson Mandela
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The 2048 Project is a roadmap for one of the
most important social movements in the 21st
century: humanity’s agreement to live
together in peace and prosperity, with a
healthy environment, based upon human
rights and the rule of law. The 2048 Project
provides a process by which individuals,
organizations and governments worldwide can
focus together and draft an International Bill
of Rights that is enforceable in the courts of all
countries and by an International Court of
Human Rights.
C O N TA C T
2048 Project
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Dr. J. Kirk Boyd, Esq.
Executive Director
kboyd@law.berkeley.edu
(510) 642.5924
Bruna Molina
Geneva Representative
brunadriana@bluewin.ch
(022) 776.2183 Our mission is to draft an International
Bill of Rights that will be enforceable in
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the courts of all countries by the year
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(022) 788.2231 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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He who does not look at what is distant Be the change that you want to see in the world. It’s important to change light-bulbs, but it’s
will find sorrow near at hand. - Gandhi much more important to change the law.
-Confucius -Vice President Al Gore

The core of the 2048 Project is its website:

The 2048 website provides an ever expanding
www.2048.berkeley.edu. The 2048 Project The 2048 website provides a wealth of
database of human rights information that is
is designed to focus and facilitate drafting videos, as well as regional and international
useful for quick reference, and also for
an International Bill of Rights by providing documents for teachers to incorporate into
preparing to make comments on the
a process for many people and their classes, and for students to review and
International Bill of Rights document. The
organizations internationally to work reference. Teachers can also empower
website is compiling the following information
together. This process is called “drafting students to think like leaders and actually
for every country:
through dialogue.” 2048 also sponsors sign the International Bill of Rights
regional and international conferences to document!
A collection of human rights treaties that
bring people together to work on an
have been signed by each country The website also provides a curriculum for
International Bill of Rights.
“Human Rights Day,” celebrated
A list of all of human rights centers and
WANT TO KNOW MORE? internationally each year on December 10th
other academic institutions for human rights
in recognition of the adoption by the
A list of nongovernmental organizations General Assembly of the Universal
READ THE BOOK! Declaration of Human Rights on December
working on human rights
10th, 1948. The curriculum includes videos,
documents, and a lesson plan for teachers
to use so that, on the same day, students in
– A SAN FRANCISCO many countries learn about rights they all
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share.

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