[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 49 (Monday, December 10, 2007)]
[Pages 1570-1571]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 8210--Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human 
Rights Week, 2007

 December 6, 2007

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    Americans value deeply our ability to speak, assemble, and worship 
freely. As a Nation, we can help freedom-loving people everywhere build 
a world in which these rights are honored and respected. During Human 
Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week, we celebrate the 
freedoms guaranteed to all Americans and protected in our Constitution's 
Bill of Rights.
    Many of these fundamental freedoms are still denied to people in 
countries around the world. The United States continues to stand with 
those who work to build democracy and secure the blessings of liberty. 
Individuals are struggling to create free societies in Cuba, Belarus, 
and Syria. And the day will come when they, and the citizens of other 
lands such as North Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe, and Sudan, will no longer be 
restricted from practicing their faith, voicing their opinions, and 
enjoying the many blessings of freedom.
    Freedom and dignity are God's gifts, and during Human Rights Day, 
Bill of Rights Day, and Human Rights Week, we look forward with 
confidence to the eventual triumph of human rights for all mankind.
     Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States 
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 
and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 10, 2007, as 
Human Rights Day; December 15, 2007, as Bill of Rights Day; and the week 
beginning December 10, 2007, as Human Rights Week. I call upon the 
people of the United States to mark these observances with appropriate 
ceremonies and activities.
     In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of 
December, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
second.
                                                George W. Bush

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 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:53 a.m., December 11, 
2007]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
December 12.