WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 10 – For Human Rights Day 2019, a group of digital diplomats and partners came together in Washington to share a Twitter thread, a coordinated campaign and a common objective.
On December 10th, 2019 nine embassies in Washington, DC (@SwissEmbassyUSA, @FranceInTheUS, @CanEmbUSA, @FinnEmbassyDC, @ItalyinUS, @NLintheUSA, @SwedeninUSA, @DenmarkinUSA, @SpainInTheUSA) together with the U.S. Department of State (@StateDRL) and the Digital Diplomacy Coalition (@digidiplomats), used their collective social media presence to send a message.
#HumanRightsDay is today and everyday!
The protection of #HumanRights is a top priority for #Italy, starting from a global moratorium on the death penalty, the rights of women+girls, children’s rights, freedom of religion, human rights education#diplomacyunited #DirittiUmani pic.twitter.com/1rwzpXowAz
— Italy in US (@ItalyinUS) December 10, 2019
Building on efforts from International Women’s Day in 2019, the informal group — a legacy of the first international digital diplomacy conference held in Stockholm in 2014, collaborations by individual embassies and the Digital Diplomacy Coalition network — took to Twitter to bring attention to the 71st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their collective goal of supporting human rights globally. Through bespoke tweets and a coordinated series of videos, each participating embassy or organization shared a unique message and highlighted one of the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Like all digital threads, the group hopes to see this conversation grow, others to join in the cause and for new ideas to emerge from the effort. (@OnuItalia)