My students taught me that everything was personal - history, politics, foreign relations - but this approach creates boundaries as well as connections
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Every human has rights - A conference call with Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson, and Graça MachelElsewhere on openDemocracy
A group of the most revered and respected human rights leaders including Nelson Mandela and Aung Sang Suu Kyi may not seem the most ideal candidates to make a campaign seem accessible and down to earth. But the elders we spoke to on the phone were jovial and friendly. They even sounded ready to fall off their chairs laughing when the conference call system failed to put through our questions. “Did anyone hear what we just said?” they laughed, thinking they had been talking to themselves.
“For different reasons we have become known, and it brings along the responsibility of allowing those who are unknown to be known,” said Graça Machel, a women and children’s rights activist of international stature. “The face and the voice of people resisting is never considered. On CNN they will tell you of explosions and how many people have been killed in Iraq. But how many times do they tell you about children? These are the people who are resisting. They keep their lives running,” she said. Trackback URL for this post:http://www.opendemocracy.net/trackback/35334
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