"Remember the Holocaust"

That's the mantra we hear on Veteran's Day, and in any class we take on Modern World History. "Remember the Holocaust." Remember, so that we will never let it happen again. That's what we tell our students, that's what we tell our friends, that's what we tell ourselves.

But we aren't remembering the Holocaust. Because to remember the Holocaust, and for that memory to be a preventative measure against any future Holocaust, we cannot dwell in the tragedy of the past. We must be vigilant in defending against tragedy in the future. In the present. That's how you honor the victims of the Holocaust. Not by conveniently "remembering" them once a year on a holiday, or running your fingers over their names carved in stone at a memorial.

The sentiment - "Remember the Holocaust" - is an important sentiment, and important rule, but it's not one we follow. And when we do, it's to rehash and explain the atrocities that happened decades ago, relive it, even be entertained by it in film or documentary. All of these serve as "reminders." But these reminders have us looking backwards, and we miss what's going on...

This year for Fanpop Human Rights Awareness Month, I am doing an icon theme. I want to have four Human Rights Icon Contests (one for every week of December), with different themes for each week.

Themes
November 27-December 7: The first theme will be World AIDS day, which is December 1st. This contest will start now, and go until December 6th. Voting will occur on the 7th.
December 8-December 14: The second theme will be Celebrate Human Rights, in accordance with the theme for International Human Rights Day on December 10. This contest will start on the 8th, and go until the 13th. Voting occurs on the 14th.
December 15- December 21: This is a general Human Rights theme, where anything goes. This contest will start on the 15th and go until the 20th. Voting occurs on the 21st.
December 22-Dcember 31: This theme will be a tri-themed icon contest. Three concepts, determined by the winners of the first three contests, will be given to contestants, who can make icons based on one or all three themes. The winner of...

Children deserve love, home, loving people which care for them, security, education, life, chance, respect, hope, future, health, support, safety, justice, independence and much more things.

They just want the simplest and most basic things in life, but instead they get this:
hatred, violence, indifference, death, pain, homelessness, starvation, loneliness, rape, childLabor, disease, sorrow, escape, compulsion, injustice, misery, exploitation, trafficking and much more things.

We should really protect them from evil, because they are our future, our descendants, our flesh and blood. But we are the ones who do them all that and expose them to all.
For us, it's easy to do such things with them and treating them, because they are smaller and weaker than us. They can’t defend themselves and must surrender to their fate.
We should use the animals as our model, because they care for their children, they love them, give them a life.

Children have rights - and we should be aware of this so they can live a normal reasonable life.