Bloggers Unite For Human Rights Day

By Adam Valvasori - Values Manager



Today is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day. So here it is....

I'm passionate about protecting the humans (from the humans). I blog for human rights. I blog for the end of the barbaric practice of child slavery, child prostitution, child labour, child trafficking and child soldiers.

I blog to alleviate poverty - the mother of all prisons.

I blog to give children a full tummy and the chance to laugh and play.

I blog to give people access to medicine if they are sick, to prevent the spread of HIV, Malaria, TB and other easily preventable yet deadly diseases.

I blog so kids can go to school, to learn how to read and write. To learn that they have rights as humans that should be given to them no matter what their age, gender, ethnicity or wealth.

I blog for freedom of information, healthy democracies and transparency in power. For people to be able to know the truth, their rights and what their options are. To let people decided for themselves how to think, believe, associate and act.

I blog to end the death penalty, to stop torture, violence against women and censorship.

Although this blog doesn't experience massive amounts of traffic, I will keep blogging because I believe that Gandhi was on the money when he said:

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
~~ Mahatma Gandhi ~~

I blog for and am thankful to The Body Shop and all our activist friends, whether they are staff, customers or Values Partners like ANTaR or Amnesty International. Together, with much gusto we will never stay quiet about defending human rights.

Blog on!
~ Adam