Human Rights Message Reaches 130,000 Viewers

March 14, 2007

	Youth for Human Rights PSAs on the big screen at a rock concert.

When you order a Big Mac in Kiev in the Ukraine now, it not only comes with a coke and fries but a human rights message as well, as the Youth for Human Rights International public service announcements (PSAs) are airing every day in every McDonald's in that city.

Those buying books at the UN in New York and those arriving at the Johannesburg Airport in South Africa are likewise gaining understanding of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the PSAs are displayed on TV screens in these locations as well.

On a Saturday night in St. Petersburg, Russia, chances are people will learn about the right to life, privacy and assembly, and freedom from slavery and torture as they wait for their movie to start at the cinema or take a break between games at the local bowling alley.

And if you were one of 20,000 sports enthusiasts at a soccer game in the Franchi Sports Stadium in Florence, Italy last October you too will remember the PSAs, whose simplicity and clarity bring human rights home to people of any culture or age while their emotional impact creates a lasting impression and makes human rights advocates out of people from all walks of life.

	Teens in Taiwan push home the message of the Human Rights PSAs by passing out booklets and holding a human rights petition drive.

Released in June 2006, these PSAs, created for Youth for Human Rights International by the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology International, are airing on 2,800 TV stations and have been watched by more than 130 million people.

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion, once wrote, "Human rights must be made a fact, not an idealistic dream."

To help make this dream a fact you can spread the word by ordering copies of the PSAs online at http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/watchads/index.html.