“What do human rights mean to you?”
"What do human rights mean to you?"
Originally uploaded by Amnesty International UK
I am going to spend some time this Christmas focusing on the work of Amnesty International. I love their slogan, “Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness”. Reading their website it is clear that there is a lot we can do, if we only put our minds to it. Perhaps the most poweful tool at our disposal is to start writing letters to prisoners of conscience; I have toyed with the idea before, but never quite got round to it. Given the stories coming out from so many countries; the abuse, the detention without trial, the catalogue of torture, imprisonment, basic lack of freedom, the reports of child slavery and child soldiers, all in utter contrast to the mincepies, mulled wine and Christmas carols we’re enjoying, It seems only right to start writing now.
