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Following the format of the link in January of this year, the Human Rights Spot is sponsoring the fanpop Human Rights poésie contest for Human Rights Awareness mois in December.

Rules
1) All poems soumis must be related, in some way, shape ou form, to the human rights theme.
2) Poems may have been written at any time, so long as they are the property of the submitting user.
3) Poems must be sixty lines ou less, or under 400 words.
4) Submissions are limited to one poem per user.
5) The deadline for submitting poésie is November 24th.

Submission Process

If toi wish to soumettre a poem to the contest,...

"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 toi honor the...

NOTE: I screened all of these entries personally. If toi soumis a poem, but don't see it up here, it's because toi didn't follow one of the link. If I doubted a poem's relation to the theme and asked toi to justify it, and toi did not justify it at all, ou well, then toi won't find your poem here. If toi didn't reply to my questions asking toi to fix your poem so it fit into the five rules linked above, then your poem won't be here. This is to clear up any confusion.

If, however, toi did follow all the rules and don't see it up here, it was probably due to human error, so par all means e-mail...