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Global Exchange will award one People’s Choice honoree in 2012. The People’s Choice honoree will receive $1,000 in honor of their work and will be recognized at this year’s Human Rights Awards celebration on May 10, 2012. Please join us in voting for our very own Anuradha Bhosale, a renowned grassroots women’s rights and anti-child labor [...]
GWEI founder, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, delivered the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Monday night in Cornell University's Sage Chapel, linking his grandfather’s theory of nonviolence to King. “I changed the two words, ‘non-violence’ to one word, ‘nonviolence,’” Gandhi said during the speech. “It stands on its own [and] it is [...]
Today is the 64th anniversary of Gandhi's death. "Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Generations to come [...]
Source: Global Press Institute KATHMANDU, NEPAL – A narrow lane in Dumbarahi, an area of Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, leads to a house that is under construction. Inside the house, a dark stairway ends in a congested room with two beds, a closet, TV, stove, table, and some pots and pans. In the [...]
895 streets in the America are named Martin Luther King Jr. Hundreds of clinics, community centers, hospitals and parks throughout the nation also bear his name. No other modern American figure’s name has been attached to so many civic places, said Derek Alderman, a professor of geography at the University of East Carolina who studies [...]
A New Year's Resolution to Raise Awareness. Very cool! 46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – The Freedom Climb, an initiative of Operation Mobilization (OM), is raising awareness and funds to combat oppression, slavery, exploitation, and global trafficking. This event is symbolic of the challenging climb that victims face while [...]
Jeevaba Nana Park, where the Avani residential home is located is 7 kilometers from Kolhapur city. Avani is working on the prevention of the many aspects of child exploitation. With scarcity of infrastructure and help of local donors is trying to support children from the deprived classes. The children are provided food, clothes, shelter, proper [...]
NEW BEGINNINGS ——— Another year, another day and the dark slowly gives way to in its annual cycle into the light of day. We are on an ascending ladder to Jacob's Bright House as we dance midstream between the light and dark of old times and new beginnings. We who have committed to walk [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the darkest side of the Super Bowl: in recent years it (and other major sports events) has been invaded by human traffickers. They're attracted by the large profits to be made in peddling prostitutes, including girls as young as 13, in the shadows of the nation's most high-profile sporting [...]
Nearly 5 million children are still engaged as laborers across the country, Indian Labor Minister Mallikarjun Kharge informed the government yesterday. The Labor Minister, made it clear that the number of child laborers in the country was declining, however. “As per Census 2001, there were 5 million working children in the country in the age [...]
Declan John Galbraith (born 19 December 1991, Hoo St Werburgh, Kent) is an English singer. He is best known for his 2002 hit single, "Tell Me Why", which peaked at #29 in the UK Singles Chart. Enjoy his heartfelt message of hope for all victimized children.His first self-titled album, Declan, with Irish traditional songs and [...]
Source: The Hindu The world's biggest food company, Nestle SA, says it will work with a non-profit group to investigate child labour on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast that supply its factories. Little has changed in the decade since the Swiss company and other major chocolate makers signed a U.S.-brokered international agreement in September 2001 [...]
Source: Catalyst House Blog | Photo Credit: Wade Nomura P reaching the message of peace and nonviolence at the recent Peace Conference in Palm Spring, California, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Arun Gandhi said, "Over the years we have been feeding the wrong wolf in us, and so we have seen this escalation of violence." The conference was [...]
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." – Mohandas Gandhi Dr. Maria Montessori met Mahatma Gandhi in the beginning of October, 1931 in London. Then on October 28, 1931 Gandhi spoke at the [...]
Attend the Palm Springs Rotary Peace Conference. Listen and participate in topics on Peace through Education. Hear the words of Arun Gandhi, Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee and Rotary Peace Fellows. "Peace Through Education Is Possible" – Rotary Peace Conference PALM SPRINGS, CA – Peace is Possible, and on November 13, 2011 Rotarians and peacemakers [...]
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