Keep your fingers crossed, hands in prayer or something when thinking about...
www.sudantribune.comHave a look at the article explaining the current situation of the conflicting groups in Sudan and also informing us of the realistic expectations for this meeting tomorrow. I agree...
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Burma awareness
Sorry for not having updated my blog for a week or so. Exams have taken a lot of time since last time I wrote here. I just wanna post some pictures that I got from a friend and tell of the commitment...
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Political Pakistan...
I was watching one of the news broadcasts by the Swedish TV channel 4 when Ahmed Rashid, well known Pakistani author and journalist, commented on the latest events in Pakistan by saying he believes...
View ArticleIgnatieff or ignorant?
Well, I don't know. We've been reading Michael Ignatieff's two essays published into a book format called Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Though he skillfully advocates his preference for...
View ArticleNordic event on Human Rights
This Monday through Tuesday I'm going to attend a big conference on Human rights here in Stockholm, Sweden called "MR-dagarna" -which basically means human rights days. It is the biggest joint event of...
View ArticleFeedback on the Human Rights event
Ok, so last week I attended this Human Rights event called MR-dagarna here in Stockholm, Sweden. My own personal over all feeling about it is that it was very succesful. Two thousand people gathered at...
View ArticleDo you want to blog for human rights?
I'm Heléne, animator of the Human Rights Tools' community for human rights bloggers. With the HRT newsletter(s) coming out and linking to this site on facebook, I thought I would just post a little...
View ArticleSudan from the inside
I got an email yesterday from a friend of mine in Sudan being in Khartoum with an organization called PMU, working with developing teachers' skills and education improvements around the country....
View ArticleI met this man on the street
I met this man on the street todayHe's an old man playing his accordionI'd seen him many times before todayplaying his accordionI met this man three months from todayit really wasn't that long agoI...
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Climate change - for better or worse?
Thank you Erland Källén for delivering such a clear and concise lecture on a subject so often overlooked by facts and figures.So, this Friday morning I together with a group of people attended a...
View ArticleAbove all - love
Some words of wisdom on why we need not only to be loved but to love."Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to...
View ArticleAvaaz again - Sign it for the Bali climate talks this time
I've just copied their message right here for you to read and start signing up. Now. I must say, not having been familiar with the Avaaz organization for such a long time that they're really doing a...
View ArticleBoshraa
I am crying tonightit's the tears of a refugee womanin the corner of their little roomshe lays in the light of the windowUnmoved by silencethe little girl's cough startles herit's her daughter that...
View ArticleChristmas and any small thing...
"Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help anouther soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will...
View ArticleA thought
If we don't live what we learnwe don't love what we dobut if we live what we lovewe'll live to learn too
View ArticleNew Hope for a New Year
The last day of the year 2007 is here. Tomorrow days of a new year will dawn and with those days, new hope. Yes, that is my hope for this new year. That a joyous new hope for the year that awaits us...
View ArticleA good start
A new year may bring us both anticipation and anxiety for the unexpected. I hope your new year has started out with giving you inspiration and ideas for what's to come through you, your different human...
View ArticleJust a boy
We fail, all the timeSometimes it's your fault, just as often it is mineWe try our best, to do our bestTo maybe give that one person, a little more than the restSo we give our focus, attention and...
View ArticleOn the Day of remembering Dr. King
Looking forward to face the kid from the ghetto an hour awayLooking back at your legacy as I get on the red subwayEqual rights for a joy that is justA joy where laughter and love is a mustYou fought...
View ArticleUpdate : Late...or Late Update!
I'm sorry I haven't been keeping the blog updated for a two-week period or so. As I was (to my utter most joy!) "recovering" from the stressful studying period of early January I got sick again and...
View ArticleFreedom of dialogue?
For a little over a month now I've been enrolled in a course on freedom of speech and information. Interesting...oh yes. The subject is highly debated in relation to the subject of the other course I'm...
View ArticleThe Mean[s] of Democracy
Completing sentences behind closed doorsOne supporting peace, the other the need for (an) armed forceThe word behind leaves no doubtabout what kind of democracy we're talking aboutTalking in endless...
View ArticleA lesson learned
I've been running out of words to write and sentences to finish lately. Been going through a low season when it comes to writing. It has to do with me being tired from a pretty rough time this spring...
View ArticleThe International Campaign for Tibet
So I got an email from Jacob Colker who's the Campaign manager of the International campaign for Tibet (ICT). ICT is an international human rights NGO chaired by actor Richard Gere that supports the...
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The movement that won't die The women who won't lie
I just read an article not so long along ago included in Dagens Nyheter (one of the major Swedish newspapers) written by Parvin Ardalan, an Iranian woman and human rights activist. Those two...
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