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The Tennessee Celebration of International Human Rights Day
Challenging Hate: Standing Together for Universal Human Rights
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: Doors open at 5:30 PM, Program 6:30 – 8:00pm CT
Venue: Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre Community Hall
Address: 1130 8th Ave S, Nashville TN 37203
Join us for the Tennessee Celebration of International Human Rights Day!
Tennesseans gather each year to celebrate International Human Rights Day. This event acknowledges leaders and honors human rights champions in three categories: Rising Advocate, Outstanding Service, and Lifetime Achievement.
Be a part of this important celebration as we recommit to advancing human rights and unity for all.
A committee of human rights organizations, nonprofits, and advocates, including the Metro Human Relations Commission, Civil Rights Enforcement Division of the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, Tennessee United for Human Rights, the Islamic Center of Nashville, the Church of Scientology and others, work together each year to plan the event.
“Human Rights Day is both a celebration and a challenge,” says planning committee chair Rev. Brian Fesler of the Church of Scientology. “This year’s theme—Challenging Hate: Standing Together for Universal Human Rights—calls on all of us to unite against division and discrimination. It’s a time to reflect on our shared humanity, to honor those who have advanced equality, and to renew our commitment to making human rights a fact in every community.”
The Human Rights Day event will take place on December 10, 2025, at 5:30 pm, place tbd.
Want to help with the event? Contact us!
Download Last Year’s Program Booklet (pdf)
About Us
Tennessee United for Human Rights is a chapter of United for Human Rights, an international non-profit organization dedicated to implementing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at local, regional, national and international levels. Its membership is comprised of individuals, educators and groups throughout the world who are actively forwarding the knowledge and protection of human rights by and for all Mankind.
Its purpose is to provide human rights educational resources and activities that inform, assist and unite individuals, educators, organizations and governmental bodies in the dissemination and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at every level of society.
United for Human Rights was founded on the Declaration’s 60th anniversary, in the face of continued worldwide abuses which violate the spirit, intent and Articles of this charter of all human rights, the first such document ever ratified by the community of nations. Surveys have found that most people have only a limited understanding of human rights. The Declaration contains the thirty rights that together form the basis of a civilization wherein all people can enjoy the freedoms to which they are entitled, and nations can coexist in peace.