The Declaration Collection
Welcome to our ever-growing collection of declarations. We’re still in the process of categorizing and tagging them. Meanwhile, feel free to scroll through and experience them for yourself.
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (August, 28, 2014)
Editor’s Note: According to its website, this declaration represents “a Pan-African initiative to promote human rights standards and principles of openness in internet policy formulation
Declaration of Internet Freedom (2012)
Editor’s Note: This declaration, which includes five core principles, was initially the brainchild of the U.S.-based advocacy group Free Press and the New America Foundation’s Open
UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Nov. 20, 1963)
Editor’s Note: The adoption of this declaration over a half century ago by the United Nations General Assembly led to enactment of the binding International
Declaration of the Outraged (Declaracion de los Indignados e Indignadas)
Editor’s Note: Galvanized by social media-savvy young people fed up with the pervasive culture of political corruption in Honduras, tens of thousands of protesters have converged
The Unanimous Declaration of Youth of the United States of America of Independence from Fossil Fuels (July 4, 2013)
Editor’s note: After watching the documentary An Inconvenient Truth as a 12-year-old, Alec Loorz took it upon himself to galvanize youth to take a leading role in curbing our
Tibetan Declaration of Independence (1913)
Editor’s note: On February 13, 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama returned to Tibet from exile in India — where he’d fled four years earlier after
“What is required is a new declaration of independence” — President-Elect Obama, Jan. 17, 2009
Editor’s note: On January 17, 2009, just three days before his first inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama called for “a new declaration of independence.” This isn’t
Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire (Acta de Independencia),1821
Editor’s note: In this very brief document, drafted by Juan José Espinosa de los Monteros, secretary of the Provisional Governmental Board, the Mexican Empire declared
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Ten-Point Platform and Program — “A combination of a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence” (1967)
Editor’s note: This document is characterized by Huey P. Newton, co-founder in 1966 with Bobby Seale of the radical Black Panther Party, as a
Town of Malden, Massachusetts, Instructions for a Declaration of Independence (May 27, 1776)
Editor’s note: A little over a month before the heady day of July 4, 1776, no longer interested in trying to patch things up with
Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States (July 4, 1876)
Editor’s Note: Not everything went according to the carefully planned script during our Centennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence, held at Independence Square in
Declaration for Independence by the Inhabitants of Alford, Mass. — June 7, 1776
Editor’s note: This is what one might call a conditional declaration of independence — if the Second Continental Congress decides to sever ties with Britain,
