COMMENT | Every year on Dec 10, the world celebrates Human Rights Day, and it is a time when countries make pledges, many times driven by lawmakers, CSOs and the public to ensure the business of human rights is on the main agenda of the government of the day.

This Human Rights Day is a grim and mournful one - with the ongoing bloodbath in Gaza in the state of Palestine and gross human rights violations closer to home in Myanmar, and in other parts of the world - dictators and war criminals all over the world continue to terrorise civilians in the name of nationalism and national security.

Innocent children, women and men have become casualties of greed, authoritarianism, identity politics, race, religion and power and it is unthinkable that this is still happening in this time and age...