Human Rights Watch: Somalia’s Child Soldiers
The children of the world are our children. Each child deserves happiness and the innocence of childhood. When adults use children to further their own needs they destroy the future through the next generation. Children need love, security and peaceful families in order for them to create a stable society and peaceful… Continue reading
Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers and Child Abuse in Syria
When is the moment when the world understands it has a responsibility to protect all children? How long do people have to wait for the conscience of humanity to decide that violence destroys lives. Each life is equal each have families, each have dreams.
I am waiting for a World fit for children.… Continue reading
Mia Farrow Meets Ex-Child Soldiers in DRC
I am watching a documentary on the child soldiers in the Congo. I thought of my friend on the Rotary Peace Studies Program who was Congolese and how she tried to bravely start peace education in her country, to facilitate a dialogue. She said it was working until she was arrested and then… Continue reading
Livingstone Apologises for Slave Trade
I am learning tonight about David Livingston the Christian missionary who felt god called him to end the slave trade. Even as I write the words ‘slave trade’ I cannot imagine what it would be like to be seen as inferior and traded like cattle. To be plucked out of the known world of… Continue reading
Latrobe: To Sink or Swim?
This is dedicated to all men in black who in the future will find the coal face is not infinite wealth but mining the true potential of our world. I look for industry that sees a renewable future not in profit but prophets that seek wisdom, where philosophers are not statues without meaning but… Continue reading