Stéphane Hessel (Wikipedia)
Stephane Hessel, Best-Selling French Author, Father
Of The Occupy Movement, Dead At 95
LE MONDE, AFP,
FRANCE 24, LIBERATION (France)
Worldcrunch
PARIS – Stephane Hessel, the French best-selling author, Resistance
figure and diplomat died last night at age 95.
He is mostly
known however, for his rights activism – his tireless combat for the
disenfranchised and illegal immigrants, writes France 24 and is considered the father of the Occupy movement.
His 32-page
essay, Indignez-Vous! (Time for Outrage!), published in 2010,
sold over 2.1 million copies in France and more than a 3.5 million copies
worldwide, according to Le Monde. It was
translated in 34 languages and has been lauded for inspiring the global Indignados
and Occupy anti-austerity movements.
In an interview
with the AFP in March 2012,
Hessel said: “The amazing success is still a surprise for me, but it is
explained by an historical moment. Societies are lost, asking themselves how to
make it through and searching a meaning to the human adventure.”
Time for
Outrage! urges youths to emulate the wartime spirit of
resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of
money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern
democracy."
“The reasons
for outrage today maybe less clear than during Nazi times,” he wrote, “But look
around and you will find them.”
Stephane Hesse
on Occupy Wall Street:
Hessel was born
to a Jewish family in Berlin in 1917, and moved to France when he was seven.
His parents were Franz and Helen Hessel, who along with writer Henri-Pierre
Roché inspired François Truffaut’s film, “Jules and Jim.”
He was
naturalized French in 1939, as WWII was starting, and in 1941, he joined the
Resistance movement spearheaded by Charles De Gaulle in London. In 1944 he
captured by the Gestapo and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp,
where he was tortured but escaped death by exchanging his identity with a
prisoner who had died of typhus.
After the war
ended, he participated in editing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
with Eleanor Roosevelt and went on to hold various posts at the UN.
In 2011, Hessel
was added by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers
"for bringing the spirit of the French Resistance to a global society that
has lost its heart."
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Morre Stéphane Hessel, um dos autores da Declaração Universal dos
Direitos Humanos
Diversos membros da ONU lamentaram nesta quarta-feira (27) a morte de
Stéphane Hessel — “um dos grandes campeões dos direitos humanos”, na descrição
de da chefe de direitos humanos da ONU –, que faleceu aos 95 anos de idade.
Hessel, que lutou na Resistência Francesa durante a Segunda Guerra
Mundial antes de ser preso pela Gestapo e enviado para um campo de
concentração, sobreviveu para ajudar a elaborar a Declaração Universal dos
Direitos Humanos, de 1948. Ele também serviu como representante da diplomacia
francesa, inclusive na Sede da ONU em Nova York.
A Alta Comissária para os Direitos Humanos, Navi Pillay, lembrou que
“Stéphane Hessel foi uma figura de destaque no mundo dos direitos humanos” e
que ”seu envolvimento com a equipe que redigiu a Declaração Universal é
suficiente por si só para lhe dar um lugar de honra na história mundial. Mas
ele fez muito mais, e continuou contribuindo para o avanço dos direitos humanos
durante seus mais de 90 anos.”
A Diretora-Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a
Ciência e a Cultura (UNESCO), Irina Bokova,
também expressou sua profunda tristeza com a morte de Hessel, que descreveu
como “um dos maiores defensores dos direitos humanos, da tolerância e da
compreensão mútua do século XX”.
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