Good news! Our Women's
Group at the Amnesty International Hungary started it's work: several
translations have already been made, we publish at least one post a day to our
facebook page -- we already gathered some encouraged followers and likes.
What's more: we (as representatives of AI) were
invited to give a presentation on maternal death at Pázmány Péter Catholic
University!!There is going to be a conference and exhibition over the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations. There are eight goals -- they encompass universally accepted human rights (like freedom from hunger, the right to basic education, the right to health etc.). The target date is 2015 by which the MDG are to be achieved.
The topic of maternal
death is quite complex and considering the school's religious background it is
going to be hard to talk about the problem of health care or abortion. These
"factors" are of course inevitable when talking about mortality rates
-- since we consider dignity, health, freedom and human
rights more important than christianity... we love challenges,
so we have to face the controversial milieu of "conservatism".
Amnesty has a different interest
in general: to raise awareness (yes,
again my favorite expression), thus it focuses on social campaigns and
lobbying. A catholic university is definitely not the place where we can spread
petitions against unequal treatment... simply we are just not allowed to do so. However, organizing such a conference is
a major step to promote human rights in a religious nature.
It was yesterday when we
had our first session to put the presentation together and it seems, that I'm
going to be one of the lecturers. Woaaah! It is a big thing for me -- while I'm a
student at one university I'm giving a lecture at another one. This is a
fantastic opportunity for me. We have nearly 2 weeks left, so I have plenty of
time to prepare. Can't wait :)
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