20th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“An artist &
political activist has gone on trial in Iran for a cartoon criticising draft
laws, which would restrict access to birth control”
“Atena Farghadani’s
cartoon shows MPs casting votes on the proposed legislation as animals”
“Atena Farghadani is
accused of spreading propaganda and insulting MPs and insulting the Supreme
Leader”
“Atena is fighting for
the rights of women only to regulate their family planning in a safe and
honourable way”
“The new laws would
end decades of family planning in Iran, outlawing vasectomies and restricting
contraception”
“This would be a
direct attack on family values and the right for parents to determine their own
lives over and above the State”
“Atena, who had been
arrested in her home by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was taken to prison”
“She was released in
December and rearrested after posting a video online”
“In it she said she
had been beaten by prison guards and interrogated for up to nine hours a day”
“After her arrest
Atena went on hunger strike to protest at the conditions at the prison”
“She was taken to
hospital after suffering a heart attack and briefly losing consciousness”
“Presently she is
being held in solitary confinement. Atena has not been put on trial yet, and
there is much concern about her health”
“She is a prisoner of
conscience and has been held because of her opinions and for exercising the
right to free expression”
“If convicted she
could face up to two years in prison and have lashes given to her”
“These new laws would
outlaw vasectomies for men and voluntary sterilisation for women and restrict
women’s rights to birth control”
“This legislation was
widely criticised by Iranians when it was announced in March”
“Women’s rights groups
warned that restricting access to birth control risked forcing women into
unsafe abortions”
“There needs to be a
global outrage here”
“Not only for the
treatment of Atena, but for the rights of Iranians to determine the size of
their family”
“It is not the right
of the State to determine their rights over the population regarding children”
“A call to free Atena
must be observed and for the rights of all Iranians to decide on their own
family numbers”
“It is always the lone
voice in the wilderness that gathers the loudest and Atena’s message will be
heard!”
20th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“An artist &
political activist has gone on trial in Iran for a cartoon criticising draft
laws, which would restrict access to birth control”
“Atena Farghadani’s
cartoon shows MPs casting votes on the proposed legislation as animals”
“Atena Farghadani is
accused of spreading propaganda and insulting MPs and insulting the Supreme
Leader”
“Atena is fighting for
the rights of women only to regulate their family planning in a safe and
honourable way”
“The new laws would
end decades of family planning in Iran, outlawing vasectomies and restricting
contraception”
“This would be a
direct attack on family values and the right for parents to determine their own
lives over and above the State”
“Atena, who had been
arrested in her home by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was taken to prison”
“She was released in
December and rearrested after posting a video online”
“In it she said she
had been beaten by prison guards and interrogated for up to nine hours a day”
“After her arrest
Atena went on hunger strike to protest at the conditions at the prison”
“She was taken to
hospital after suffering a heart attack and briefly losing consciousness”
“Presently she is
being held in solitary confinement. Atena has not been put on trial yet, and
there is much concern about her health”
“She is a prisoner of
conscience and has been held because of her opinions and for exercising the
right to free expression”
“If convicted she
could face up to two years in prison and have lashes given to her”
“These new laws would
outlaw vasectomies for men and voluntary sterilisation for women and restrict
women’s rights to birth control”
“This legislation was
widely criticised by Iranians when it was announced in March”
“Women’s rights groups
warned that restricting access to birth control risked forcing women into
unsafe abortions”
“There needs to be a
global outrage here”
“Not only for the
treatment of Atena, but for the rights of Iranians to determine the size of
their family”
“It is not the right
of the State to determine their rights over the population regarding children”
“A call to free Atena
must be observed and for the rights of all Iranians to decide on their own
family numbers”
“It is always the lone
voice in the wilderness that gathers the loudest and Atena’s message will be
heard!”
19th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“Today marks 80 years
since the death of T. E. Lawrence, the wartime hero, renegade diplomat and
reputable scholar”
“Lawrence’s heroics
during WWI, when he galvanised a Bedouin army against a dying Ottoman Empire,
gave him public adulation back home”
“Lawrence hoped that
full independence would be the prize for Arab loyalty in the war”
“He lobbied hard in
France and the UK to relinquish their grip on the region and to overturn the
Sykes-Picot Agreement”
“For this he was
rejected, his friends in arms betrayed him and Lawrence felt it personally”
“Sadly for Lawrence he
was naïve”
“He saw the Arabs as
friends, his bosses in London saw them as tools throughout the war. They did
then and they still do to this day”
“The US’s ploy has
been to be seen to be assisting to free people”
“The people who are
resisting subjugation, by arming the minorities or by outside pressure”
“This noble act is
supported by the state media and the public alike”
“This marketing
illusion, which underneath it all, is the US only seeking its own self-interest
in its humanitarian rhetoric”
“The US’s strategy in
the Middle East, which has been slowly evolving since the 1980s, has illusions
of humanitarian overtures”
“This is while it
focuses primarily on its interest alone”
“President Carter once
said, “Any attempt by outside forces to
control the Persian Gulf region…”
““…would be a direct assault on the interests of the US. These assaults
would be repelled by force if necessary””
“In the 2003 invasion
of Iraq, the reasons given for the intervention were not on humanitarian
grounds of Saddam Hussein being a dictator”
“Rather it was to
prevent Saddam Hussein from savagely attacking global oil prices”
“Again in recent times
on the pretext of humanitarian grounds, where IS is concerned that they must be
beaten in order to save the Yazidis”
“Some 40,000 Yazidis
on Mount Sinjar were facing imminent genocide”
“What the US public
were not told was that a rescue mission mounted by Kurdish fighters had already
taken place”
“What was more
important was to save the region because nearby are oil refineries & a
crucial Kirkuk-Cayhen pipeline were in jeopardy from IS”
“Oil is the most
pressing US concern and they use the humanitarian angle simply as a marketing
decoy for their public”
“Like T. E. Lawrence,
many have been deceived”
“Lawrence was a great
man, he came to the Middle East and took to its people and had honest
intentions to save them”
“What he
underestimated was the cold, calculating agendas of the colonial establishment”
“Today it is the same.
It is not that the West wants to save the Middle East. It is that the West
wants the Middle East!”
19th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“Today marks 80 years
since the death of T. E. Lawrence, the wartime hero, renegade diplomat and
reputable scholar”
“Lawrence’s heroics
during WWI, when he galvanised a Bedouin army against a dying Ottoman Empire,
gave him public adulation back home”
“Lawrence hoped that
full independence would be the prize for Arab loyalty in the war”
“He lobbied hard in
France and the UK to relinquish their grip on the region and to overturn the
Sykes-Picot Agreement”
“For this he was
rejected, his friends in arms betrayed him and Lawrence felt it personally”
“Sadly for Lawrence he
was naïve”
“He saw the Arabs as
friends, his bosses in London saw them as tools throughout the war. They did
then and they still do to this day”
“The US’s ploy has
been to be seen to be assisting to free people”
“The people who are
resisting subjugation, by arming the minorities or by outside pressure”
“This noble act is
supported by the state media and the public alike”
“This marketing illusion,
which underneath it all, is the US only seeking its own self-interest in its
humanitarian rhetoric”
“The US’s strategy in
the Middle East, which has been slowly evolving since the 1980s, has illusions
of humanitarian overtures”
“This is while it
focuses primarily on its interest alone”
“President Carter once
said, “Any attempt by outside forces to
control the Persian Gulf region…”
““…would be a direct assault on the interests of the US. These assaults
would be repelled by force if necessary””
“In the 2003 invasion
of Iraq, the reasons given for the intervention were not on humanitarian
grounds of Saddam Hussein being a dictator”
“Rather it was to
prevent Saddam Hussein from savagely attacking global oil prices”
“Again in recent times
on the pretext of humanitarian grounds, where IS is concerned that they must be
beaten in order to save the Yazidis”
“Some 40,000 Yazidis
on Mount Sinjar were facing imminent genocide”
“What the US public
were not told was that a rescue mission mounted by Kurdish fighters had already
taken place”
“What was more
important was to save the region because nearby are oil refineries & a
crucial Kirkuk-Cayhen pipeline were in jeopardy from IS”
“Oil is the most
pressing US concern and they use the humanitarian angle simply as a marketing
decoy for their public”
“Like T. E. Lawrence,
many have been deceived”
“Lawrence was a great
man, he came to the Middle East and took to its people and had honest
intentions to save them”
“What he
underestimated was the cold, calculating agendas of the colonial establishment”
“Today it is the same.
It is not that the West wants to save the Middle East. It is that the West
wants the Middle East!”
18th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“A Mumbai nurse, who
was raped more than 40 years ago and who has been in a coma ever since, has now
finally died”
“Aruna Shanbaug, 68
years old, was sodomised, then strangled with metal chains and left to die.
This was done by a KEM hospital cleaner”
“Aruna survived, but
suffered irreversible brain damage following this attack in 1973”
“She had been
force-fed twice a day and has spent the rest of her life in hospital”
“Her parents had died
many years ago and other relatives had not made contact with her”
“Journalist and author
Pinki Virani, who wrote ‘Aruna’s Story’,
a book on the nurse’s plight, had filed the case to the Supreme Court”
“She argued that Aruna
was ‘virtually a dead person’ and should be allowed to die”
“Miss Virani wanted
the court to stop force-feeding her and to give her some dignity in dying
naturally”
“Aruna would have no
awareness of things happening around her, but this was rejected by the Supreme
Court in 2011”
“Aruna Shanbaug’s
attacker was not charged with her rape, as sodomy was not considered rape under
Indian laws at the time”
“He was charged with
robbery and attempted murder and freed after seven years”
“The absence of the
right to die in Indian’s legal system had compounded to her misery”
“To ask any person to
be forced to live in a vegetative state for 42 years is in itself inhumane”
“This should be an
offence against the Government and its judicial system”
“Aruna’s misery should
not have lasted for four decades”
“This case has
highlighted the safety of women in the work place in India “
“There is a widespread
culture in India of abuse against women that has got worse”
“Much needs to be done
to change this culture and it is only by the people marching and exercising
their voices every day”
“That will eventually
bring changes to the law regarding these abuses”
“India has failed
Aruna in so many ways and the other women, who have been abused in this nation”
“India has denied
Aruna her right to live and her right to die”
“This shame will
continue on you India. You carry on failing your female population and hardly
anything gets done”
18th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“A Mumbai nurse, who
was raped more than 40 years ago and who has been in a coma ever since, has now
finally died”
“Aruna Shanbaug, 68
years old, was sodomised, then strangled with metal chains and left to die.
This was done by a KEM hospital cleaner”
“Aruna survived, but
suffered irreversible brain damage following this attack in 1973”
“She had been
force-fed twice a day and has spent the rest of her life in hospital”
“Her parents had died
many years ago and other relatives had not made contact with her”
“Journalist and author
Pinki Virani, who wrote ‘Aruna’s Story’,
a book on the nurse’s plight, had filed the case to the Supreme Court”
“She argued that Aruna
was ‘virtually a dead person’ and should be allowed to die”
“Miss Virani wanted
the court to stop force-feeding her and to give her some dignity in dying
naturally”
“Aruna would have no
awareness of things happening around her, but this was rejected by the Supreme
Court in 2011”
“Aruna Shanbaug’s
attacker was not charged with her rape, as sodomy was not considered rape under
Indian laws at the time”
“He was charged with
robbery and attempted murder and freed after seven years”
“The absence of the
right to die in Indian’s legal system had compounded to her misery”
“To ask any person to
be forced to live in a vegetative state for 42 years is in itself inhumane”
“This should be an
offence against the Government and its judicial system”
“Aruna’s misery should
not have lasted for four decades”
“This case has
highlighted the safety of women in the work place in India “
“There is a widespread
culture in India of abuse against women that has got worse”
“Much needs to be done
to change this culture and it is only by the people marching and exercising
their voices every day”
“That will eventually
bring changes to the law regarding these abuses”
“India has failed
Aruna in so many ways and the other women, who have been abused in this nation”
“India has denied
Aruna her right to live and her right to die”
“This shame will
continue on you India. You carry on failing your female population and hardly
anything gets done”
17th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“A pole-vaulter has
realised her dream by winning a bronze medal at the Texas State High School
Championships”
“This amazing teenager
called Charlotte Brown cleared 3.5m and was joined on the podium in Austin,
Texas by her pet guide dog Vador”
“Charlotte Brown
developed cataracts at 16 weeks old and had artificial lenses inserted as her
vision got worse at the age of 11 years”
“Charlotte is now
blind and has only a ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of light and dark shades”
“She is an Emory Rains
student and has dreamed of a medal for the past two years”
“She had already
finished eight and fourth in the medal’s table”
“Emory Rains High
School’s goals are to Create Adults That Succeed. They certainly did that with
Charlotte”
“It was at the Texas
High School Championship that incorporated all the schools in Texas that she
was able to achieve her goal”
“Taking third position
was her highest ever achievement”
“Charlotte wanted to
try a sport that was dangerous and exciting”
“She counts the seven
steps of her left foot on her approach to the mat”
“Then listening for a
faint beeper sound she is able to place her pole and push up”
“It has taken
Charlotte three years of dedication to get her on the podium and she finally
did it”
“Charlotte sends out a
clear message to everybody. It is not about pole-vaulting or about the race
track”
“It is all about
finding something that makes you happy, despite whatever obstacles are in your
way”
“Most people continue
to sleepwalk through life. It seems it is the ones who have an impediment that
makes them work harder to succeed”
“They are the ones who
do not allow their disabilities to get in the way of personal achievement”
“Another two special
souls are Millie Knight, who is 15 years old. Millie lost her sight at the age
of seven”
“Mick Brennan lost
both his legs in Iraq trying to deal with land mines”
“Both Millie and Mick
competed in skiing in the Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014”
“Like Charlotte Brown,
all have demonstrated the triumph of the human spirit to reach the highest
level of a competitive sport”
“They will not stop
there and their continued progress serves as an inspiration to us all”
17th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“A pole-vaulter has
realised her dream by winning a bronze medal at the Texas State High School
Championships”
“This amazing teenager
called Charlotte Brown cleared 3.5m and was joined on the podium in Austin,
Texas by her pet guide dog Vador”
“Charlotte Brown
developed cataracts at 16 weeks old and had artificial lenses inserted as her
vision got worse at the age of 11 years”
“Charlotte is now
blind and has only a ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of light and dark shades”
“She is an Emory Rains
student and has dreamed of a medal for the past two years”
“She had already
finished eight and fourth in the medal’s table”
“Emory Rains High
School’s goals are to Create Adults That Succeed. They certainly did that with
Charlotte”
“It was at the Texas
High School Championship that incorporated all the schools in Texas that she
was able to achieve her goal”
“Taking third position
was her highest ever achievement”
“Charlotte wanted to
try a sport that was dangerous and exciting”
“She counts the seven
steps of her left foot on her approach to the mat”
“Then listening for a
faint beeper sound she is able to place her pole and push up”
“It has taken
Charlotte three years of dedication to get her on the podium and she finally
did it”
“Charlotte sends out a
clear message to everybody. It is not about pole-vaulting or about the race
track”
“It is all about
finding something that makes you happy, despite whatever obstacles are in your
way”
“Most people continue
to sleepwalk through life. It seems it is the ones who have an impediment that
makes them work harder to succeed”
“They are the ones who
do not allow their disabilities to get in the way of personal achievement”
“Another two special
souls are Millie Knight, who is 15 years old. Millie lost her sight at the age
of seven”
“Mick Brennan lost
both his legs in Iraq trying to deal with land mines”
“Both Millie and Mick
competed in skiing in the Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014”
“Like Charlotte Brown,
all have demonstrated the triumph of the human spirit to reach the highest
level of a competitive sport”
“They will not stop
there and their continued progress serves as an inspiration to us all”
16th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“Each evening in May,
Palestinian mothers and nuns come to the church at the Rosary Sisters Mamilla
Convent in Jerusalem”
“They come to pray to
the Virgin Mary”
“For the first time
Palestinian Catholics will also venerate two Saints”
“They lived in the
Holy Land in modern times and were native Arabic speakers”
“Pope Francis will
canonised four 19th Century nuns this Sunday, two of them are Sister Maria
Alphosine Ghattas and Mariam Bawardy”
“At Sister Maria’s
house, a Sister Agatha shows round large tours of Christian women from
Nazareth”
“Every week
parishioners come here, Sister Agatha says, to visit the house, because they
were so proud of Sister Maria”
“Sister Maria
Alphosine Ghattas was a teacher and she worked in Palestine to educate the Arab
girls and women”
“Now the Sisters of
the Convent are continuing her mission and are famous because of their
students”
“Today the
Congregation of the Rosary Sisters, which was co-founded by Sister Maria, run
many kindergartens and schools across the region”
“At the Carmel Convent
in Bethlehem flags and banners have been put up to celebrate the canonisation
of Sister Mariam Bawardy”
“She was born in
Galilee and, as a mystic, carried out many miracles”
“She also experienced
stigmata wounds, which represented the suffering of Jesus on the cross”
“Sister Mariam was
very special, because of her simple and humble ways. That is the way to
becoming a Saint”
“Mariam was known at
the ‘Little Arab’ but she always said, “I
am the little nothing.” She taught her students to follow her simplicity”
“Both these nuns lived
through tough conditions, overcoming male dominance, poverty & ill health
while at the same time always helping others”
“Both received the
apparition of the Virgin Mary and remained in close communication with her”
“Pope Francis,
granting them Sainthood, allows the Church to celebrate their very good works”
“Pope Francis also
shows support for Christians in the birthplace of their religion”
“There needs to be
more open veneration of these wonderful women, who in spite of great hardship
were still able to overcome & help humanity”
“The more love there
is in the Palestinian region the more chance for peace to be realised and for
hostility to finally be eroded away”
16th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“On the 13th May 2014
a fire broke out in a local coal mine in Soma”
“It was one of
Turkey’s worst ever industrial accidents”
“One of the pits was
engulfed with carbon monoxide, which caused 301 miners to die. Some were burnt
alive and others suffocated”
“Among them were Sevim
Cata’s sons”
“Consumed with grief,
still Sevim told reporters how her sons had done everything together”
“They married on the
same day, lived together and their bodies were found embracing each other”
“It is a year on and
the village of the disaster is still in shock. They may never truly recover”
“It is bad enough that
this industrial accident was waiting to happen due to neglect in the mine”
“But nothing has been
forthcoming by the Government”
“The Turkish
Government has not even visited the families. They have been ignored”
“Devastation has now
turned to rage against both the mine executives and the Government, a tragedy
that should have been prevented”
“Safety standards were
compromised. There was poor ventilation and gas masks were defunct”
“Key necessary
equipment was no longer imported, but bought locally, such as transformers, one
of which exploded causing the fire”
“This mine was
formerly state-run and was later leased to a private company in 2005”
“Soma Holdings was
still owned by a Government conglomerate”
“There has been a cosy
relationship between Government officials and mine executives, which meant that
problems were ignored”
“Two weeks before this
disaster happened there was a call for an investigation into an accident at the
mine”
“But the governing
body rejected it”
“There is a ruling
here for culpable homicide”
“All the mining
executives and the Government overseeing this mine have to answer before the
courts”
“They must take
responsibility for their neglectful actions”
“A year on and Soma is
still seething. Huge rallies broke out last weekend”
“Some of the
demonstrators were dressed as miners and others carried photographs of their
dead loved ones”
“Chants have rung out
of ‘Erdogan, thief, murderer’ and ‘The coal of Soma will burn down the
Government’”
“It is now time for
the momentum of this offence to be channelled by the people”
“This injustice on so
many levels needs to be heard, so that grief and justice can be satisfied”
“Until the voices of
the people are heard, nothing will change and other mines could well be
affected”
“Governments do
nothing until the voice of the people is heard. Only then will justice be
started”
15th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“Kailash Satyarthi
says his heroes are the children whom he saved from slavery”
“The 60 year old Nobel
Prize winner has been credited with helping to free 80,000 children from bonded
labour”
“This is from the
start of his advocacy in the 1980s”
“Kailash Satyarthi has
worked to end the chronic practice of child labour for nearly three decades”
“Satyarthi was an
electrical engineer by training and began working for the Rights of Children
when he was 26 years old”
“Satyarthi spearheaded
a movement to make free and compulsory education a constitutional right in
India in 2009”
“It is his
organisation that rescues child workers and provides them with free education”
“Satyarthi said he was
moved at the start of his education by a boy he witnessed”
“He was the son of a
cobbler, who wasn’t able to go to school because he had to work”
“Satyarthi’s
organisation is called Save Childhood Movement and was formed in 1983”
“Save Childhood
Movement has rescued 80,000 children from illegal and hazardous work across
India”
“Those children were
rescued from construction companies, carpet industries and bangle and
firecracker production”
“Brick-kilns,
restaurants and child trafficking networks together provide bondage for these
children”
“Satyarthi led the
‘Global March Against Child Labour’ in 1998, when children rescued from illegal
work marched through 60 countries”
“They actually reached
Geneva in Switzerland”
“In the mid-1990s, he
raided many carpet looms in eastern India that hired child labourers to work on
the exported carpets”
“Satyarthi developed a
self-certification label for South Asian carpets meant for export to signal
that they were free from child labour”
“Back in 1994 it was
called Rugmark. Now it is known as Good Weave”
“Satyarthi has been
accused of working against India’s interests and has shown India up in a bad
light”
“Satyarthi and his
organisation have played a key role in bringing about the ‘Rights to Education’
law”
“This law mandates
free education to India’s children”
“Satyarthi has worked
tirelessly to bring about stricter laws against child trafficking”
“Satyarthi has won
numerous awards, which include Defenders of Democracy (US 2009)”
“Satyarthi has won
Fredric Ebert International Human Rights Award (Germany) & Robert. F
Kennedy International Human Rights Award (US 1995)”
“Satyarthi is
recognised on the list of ‘Heroes Acting to End Modern Day Slavery’ by the US
State Department (2007)”
“Until the likes of
Satyarthi are highlighted far more than they are…”
“…India and other
countries will continue to wreck the lives of millions of children”
“Children are the
voices nobody wishes to hear. They are silent in their pain and have nowhere to
run or to speak out”
“Wholesale abuse on
children is a worldwide industry and there are not enough advocates to bring
this to the media and world attention”
“We all have a
responsibility to alleviate the suffering of the innocent and to try our best
to see they are protected at all times”
“It is now up to
Governments to take this forward and to stamp out abuse in all its guises. We
pray that they will listen”
15th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“Kailash Satyarthi
says his heroes are the children whom he saved from slavery”
“The 60 year old Nobel
Prize winner has been credited with helping to free 80,000 children from bonded
labour”
“This is from the
start of his advocacy in the 1980s”
“Kailash Satyarthi has
worked to end the chronic practice of child labour for nearly three decades”
“Satyarthi was an
electrical engineer by training and began working for the Rights of Children
when he was 26 years old”
“Satyarthi spearheaded
a movement to make free and compulsory education a constitutional right in
India in 2009”
“It is his
organisation that rescues child workers and provides them with free education”
“Satyarthi said he was
moved at the start of his education by a boy he witnessed”
“He was the son of a
cobbler, who wasn’t able to go to school because he had to work”
“Satyarthi’s
organisation is called Save Childhood Movement and was formed in 1983”
“Save Childhood
Movement has rescued 80,000 children from illegal and hazardous work across
India”
“Those children were
rescued from construction companies, carpet industries and bangle and
firecracker production”
“Brick-kilns,
restaurants and child trafficking networks together provide bondage for these
children”
“Satyarthi led the
‘Global March Against Child Labour’ in 1998, when children rescued from illegal
work marched through 60 countries”
“They actually reached
Geneva in Switzerland”
“In the mid-1990s, he
raided many carpet looms in eastern India that hired child labourers to work on
the exported carpets”
“Satyarthi developed a
self-certification label for South Asian carpets meant for export to signal that
they were free from child labour”
“Back in 1994 it was
called Rugmark. Now it is known as Good Weave”
“Satyarthi has been
accused of working against India’s interests and has shown India up in a bad
light”
“Satyarthi and his
organisation have played a key role in bringing about the ‘Rights to Education’
law”
“This law mandates
free education to India’s children”
“Satyarthi has worked
tirelessly to bring about stricter laws against child trafficking”
“Satyarthi has won
numerous awards, which include Defenders of Democracy (US 2009)”
“Satyarthi has won
Fredric Ebert International Human Rights Award (Germany) & Robert. F
Kennedy International Human Rights Award (US 1995)”
“Satyarthi is
recognised on the list of ‘Heroes Acting to End Modern Day Slavery’ by the US
State Department (2007)”
“Until the likes of
Satyarthi are highlighted far more than they are…”
“…India and other
countries will continue to wreck the lives of millions of children”
“Children are the
voices nobody wishes to hear. They are silent in their pain and have nowhere to
run or to speak out”
“Wholesale abuse on
children is a worldwide industry and there are not enough advocates to bring
this to the media and world attention”
“We all have a
responsibility to alleviate the suffering of the innocent and to try our best
to see they are protected at all times”
“It is now up to
Governments to take this forward and to stamp out abuse in all its guises. We
pray that they will listen”
11th May 2015 (jandmayers twitter)
“There is an architect
who puts people before trade and who can redefine his own profession”
“Award winning
architect Vo Trong Nghia is on a mission to transform Vietnam’s attitudes
towards architecture”
“This man wishes to
produce sustainable buildings in urban spaces”
“The population
explosion is a big problem in all Asian countries, especially those countries
that have a tropical climate”
“People require open
spaces”
“There needs to be a
scattering of greenery to be added to the already claustrophobic concrete blocks
that dominate the cityscapes”
“Nghia’s buildings
incorporate plants and trees and include design elements, such as natural air
flow ventilation”
“This will replace the
costly and environmentally damaging air conditioning”
“Nghia sees that green
architecture helps people to live harmoniously with nature”
“It elevates human
life by embracing the powers of the sun, wind and water into their living
spaces”
“If people do not
change their current way of thinking they will all be living in concrete jungles”
“Nghia is currently
working on a prototype for a ‘Low Cost House’ AKA ‘S-House2’”
“This will provide an
affordable solution for low-income families in the Mekong Delta”
“The project is on a
small scale, but construction can be completed in two weeks, transforming those
lives that are in greatest need”
“It is the modern
architect, who now can change the mind-set and with Nghia’s important mission
to bring green spaces back to the earth”
“The vision of this
man is quite extraordinary in Vietnam these days”
“Where concrete in Ho
Chi Minh City is already choking the people, he is a breath of fresh air”
11th May 2015 (ladylydialondon twitter)
“There is an architect
who puts people before trade and who can redefine his own profession”
“Award winning
architect Vo Trong Nghia is on a mission to transform Vietnam’s attitudes
towards architecture”
“This man wishes to
produce sustainable buildings in urban spaces”
“The population
explosion is a big problem in all Asian countries, especially those countries
that have a tropical climate”
“People require open
spaces”
“There needs to be a
scattering of greenery to be added to the already claustrophobic concrete
blocks that dominate the cityscapes”
“Nghia’s buildings
incorporate plants and trees and include design elements, such as natural air
flow ventilation”
“This will replace the
costly and environmentally damaging air conditioning”
“Nghia sees that green
architecture helps people to live harmoniously with nature”
“It elevates human
life by embracing the powers of the sun, wind and water into their living
spaces”
“If people do not
change their current way of thinking they will all be living in concrete
jungles”
“Nghia is currently
working on a prototype for a ‘Low Cost House’ AKA ‘S-House2’”
“This will provide an
affordable solution for low-income families in the Mekong Delta”
“The project is on a
small scale, but construction can be completed in two weeks, transforming those
lives that are in greatest need”
“It is the modern
architect, who now can change the mind-set and with Nghia’s important mission
to bring green spaces back to the earth”
“The vision of this
man is quite extraordinary in Vietnam these days”
“Where concrete in Ho
Chi Minh City is already choking the people, he is a breath of fresh air”
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