By Khalida Sarwari
Representatives from community and faith-based organizations in San Jose are planning a march this weekend to highlight human rights issues.
The fifth annual March for Human Rights will focus on immigrant rights and the right to housing, health care, education, and living-wage jobs, said CHAM Deliverance Ministry outreach minister Sandy Perry.
“To have any homeless people in a country as rich as ours is a violation of human rights,” he said. “Anything short of universal health care is a violation of human rights.”
Perry said the march will also be a celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a call for its implementation by the governments of the world, including the U.S. government.
Organized by Voluntarios de la Comunidad, the march will begin at noon Sunday at King and Story Roads and is roughly timed to coincide with the worldwide Human Rights Day on Dec. 10. The march ends at City Hall.