Sumana writes, “I was talking with a friend about trends in dystopian fiction, and about the underappreciated rights that don’t get as much airtime. So I created Randomized Dystopia. You can hit Reload on the main page to get a right from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or use the Custom Terribleness page for the option of a specifically sexist or ageist dystopia.”
I hope writers find this interesting as a writing prompt, and I’d also like to raise awareness (especially in the US) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Too often in the US I hear people talk as though the first ten amendments to the US Constitution comprise all the rights we ought to honor, and humanity has done some more thinking on those topics in the intervening centuries.
Assorted Abrogations [Sumana Harihareswara]
(Image: Scene from “Soylent Green”, Future Atlas, CC-BY; thumbnail: What’s wrong?, Daniel Oines, CC-BY)