# YFHR Education PSA: Is this realistic?

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**Created:** [March 15, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yfhr-education-psa-is-this-realistic/574852 "2011-03-15T23:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yfhr-education-psa-is-this-realistic/574852/1 "2011-03-15T23:49:00Z")

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[Youth for Human Rights](http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/) appears to be a righteous site with no more of an axe to grind than just compassion and the hope of a better world. At least that’s my take.

YFHR supplies short (30 sec to 1 min) Public Service Announcements (PSAs) free to TV stations like our cable channel. They extremely well made, poignant and I like to run them as fillers between programs.

One of them illustrates the _Right To An Education._ Watch one of the versions; I am posting two kinds:

[Education, WMV version](http://doorbell.net/video/education.wmv) (4MB)  
[Education, MPG version](http://doorbell.net/video/education.mpg) (50MB)

Don’t open my question in the spoiler until you have viewed the video, please!Is it realistic that the “foreign” student, who looks Asian, comes from a village with no schools at all? Are there any places in the world where that is the case?

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yfhr-education-psa-is-this-realistic/574852/2 "2011-03-16T00:26:09Z")

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Just to add to the OP, here is the description of the PSA series given by YFHR:

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> Every person is entitled to certain rights - simply by the fact that they are a human being. They are “rights” because they are things you are allowed to be, to do or to have. These rights are there for your protection against people who might want to harm or hurt you. They are also there to help us get along with each other and live in peace. Many people know something about their rights. They know they have a right to be paid for the work they do and they have a right to vote. But there exist many other rights. When human rights are not well known by people, abuses such as discrimination, intolerance, injustice, oppression and slavery can arise. Born out of the atrocities and enormous loss of life during World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created by the United Nations to provide a common understanding of what everyone’s rights are. It forms the basis for a world built on freedom, justice and peace.

The MPG version is big, but it is the actual data used for broadcast. The WMV is reduced in size & quality, and is good enough for this purpose.