India has the largest number in the world of children not in school. Like the carpetbaggers of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” migrant laborers travel with their families across the Indian countryside in search of work. They set up tattered tents alongside highways or build small mud huts in the shadow […]
Be in India: The birthplace of Gandhi’s movement
March 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
2011 Gandhian Legacy Tour – Trip Report Gandhi led India to independence through a movement of nonviolence—something unprecedented. Gandhi once said, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” This is easier said than done, but by his own life he showed it is not at all impossible. He wielded the […]
Anuradha Bhosale Nominated for Human Rights Award
February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Arun Gandhi Urges Nonviolence in Cornell Speech
February 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
The Meaning of Death
February 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
USHA & ANJALI THE MEANING OF DEATH Women are on the lowest rung of the exploitative social pyramid. When married off, they enter a form of serfdom under the patriarchal grip which has more than one prong. The male and female in-laws and the master of the set-up, the husband at the top, together rule the roost and the […]
Remembering Gandhi’s Martyrdom of Peace
January 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
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 […]
Remembering King: Radical Organizor or Safe Icon
January 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
January 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Anuradha Bhosale rescues child laborers and rehabilitates them
January 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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, a Poem, Invocation, & Invitation for 2012
January 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Protect Children During Super Bowl!
December 27, 2011 by 1 Comment
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 […]
5 Million Child Labourers in India
December 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 Galbraith sings ‘Tell Me Why’
December 2, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Child labour probed in Nestle cocoa fields
November 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
In Palm Springs Arun Gandhi Spreads Message of Peace
November 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
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 […]