Fraternity-Testvériség, 1987 (65. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
1987-07-01 / 3. szám
FRATERNITY Page 15 giance and the Preamble to the Constitution on September 16, 1987 at 1:00 p.m. when it is boardcast on ED I’ Broadcast from Washington, D.C. on radio and television. Our branch members along with the other American- Hungarian Club members will be participating in their Hungarian Heritage Day celebration to be held Sunday, September 20, 1987 at noon. There will be a vast assortment of delicious Hungarian foods prepared by the ladies and a beautiful display of Hungarian costumes and museum articles, old and new. Hungarian music will be provided by our great cimbalom player Joe Rendes and the famous violinist Frank Orosz. Plans for future programs were also discussed and a raffle and bacon fry will be held this fall. The meeting closed with a prayer said by Margaret Du- bos. Margaret Dubos, Secretary BRANCH 300 — WASHINGTON, D.C. A Kossuth Ház áldását azok érzik, akik a napot falai között töltik. A bérelt iroda ridegsége a napsugaras otthonban családias együttlétté változott. Az alkalmazottak a vonzó környezetben egymáshoz is közelebb jutottak. Azóta keressük a Ház-on kívüli találkozás alkalmait is. Kiss Sán- dornénak kedves gondolata támadt. Julius 8-án, otthonába, kertjébe meghívta az Egyesület vezetőit és a Kossuth Ház alkalmazottait. Ki törődött az óriási hőséggel? Igyekeztünk bevégezni a nap munkáját, hogy a délesti órákat már a szabadban tölthessük. Sokunk számára ismerős környezet. Semmi nem változott azóta, hogy a ház egykori gazdájával Munka után édes a pihenés ott időztünk. Egyházban, egyesületben, washingtoni, de országos vonatkozásban is oszlopa volt közösségeinknek. Lelkülete tovább él, hat otthonában, élettársában, gyermekeiben. Igazi magyaros vendéglátásban volt részünk. Szalonnasütés, majd esti órákig tartó népdalozás, vidám beszélgetés tették emlékezetessé a napot. Velünk maradt nemcsak a finom ételek, de a kedves egyiittlét jó íze. Bertalan Imre. Szalonnasütés BRANCH 300 — WASHINGTON, D.C. Hungarians were well represented at an international human rights conference which took place in Oxford, England May 29th through 31st. The conference was called Development, Environment and Peace as Human Rights: An Inter-disciplinary Inquiry into the Nature and Value of the New Human Rights. The so-called “new human rights” have only become a part of the vocabulary of human rights over the last decade. Among them the “right to development,” the “right to peace,”, and the “right to a healthy environment” are the best known, having already received some degree of recognition in international law. Supporters of the new human rights claim that these rights are a response to the most serious problems facing humanity today, and that they can help efforts to solve those problems by drawing attention to the way individual human beings are affected by these problems, giving individual or group needs a higher profile and stronger claim in the formulation of policies. Opponents of the new rights contend that communal values like development, peace, and a clean environment cannot be rights but only ideals, that it is unrealistic to make them into rights, and that therefore support for the new rights amounts to high-sounding but ultimately empty rhetoric. The goal of the conference was to examine the new human rights from a philosophical, legal, political, cultural, economic, and sociological standpoint, and to try to assess what effect the new rights could have, first, on development, environment, or security policies and, second, on the continuing struggle to achieve respect for other, more traditional human rights. Conference participants came from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Among them were two legal scholars from Budapest, Prof. Hanna Bokor- Szego, Professor of International Law at the Univ. of Budapest and a member of the International Law Association’s Working Group on the Right to Food, and Csaba Varga, a young legal sociologist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Alexander Kiss, Director of International Institute of
