Aidafrique

by Kent 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  Kent

  Hi Belbab. I would just show you a speech, on a UN conference for women, by a representative of AidAfrique:

  Plenary speech: Kaudjhis-Offoumou
  

  WOMEN'S PEACE PLATFORM

  
  Over the past few years,several resolutions and recommendations have emerged from various international fora to address issues which will enhance human progress and development . The Earth Summit, the Population Conference, the Social Development Summit and the Human Rights Conference, among others, require huge amounts of resources for their implementation. The Global Platform for Action, to be approved at the BeijingUs WomenUs Conference in the next few days, will also need billions of dollars for its implementation. But where will all this money come from? The WomenUs Peace Platform insists that the only place to find these funds to carry out the demands of all these meetings is from the $2 million per minute the world is currently spending on the military. According to UNICEF, children and women bear the severe brunt of war, civil strife and ethnic conflict. Available statistics indicate that during the past decade, more than 1.5 million children were killed, over 4 million permanently disabled, about 12 m illion left homeless and an estimated 10 million traumatised by conflict. Countless numbers of women and girls have been raped. Presently, the world is witnessing untold misery and suffering in several countries affected by armed conflicts. These incl ude the former Yugoslavia in Eastern Europe and Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa. The WomenUs Peace Platform calls for the creation of a culture of peace world-wide and an end to the arms trade. It stongly advocates an immediate halt in the production, testing, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons as well as the reduction of ever y nationUs military budget by 5% a year for 5 years, transferring the savings directly to support womenUs and human needs. Seen through womenUs eyes, Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of justice, caring and harmony. Women activists who will be organising several Peace Workshops during the NGO Forum this week emphasise that as long as inequities exist in our societies, there can be no peace, as Peace requires the equal and effective participation of women at all levels and in all fields, as well as human rights and justice.

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  Would you say this is a speech the same lady would hold from the platform in a KH? LOL
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  belbab

  Kent,

  I'm working with you on this one. I understand what the article said, but my French is very rusty and is Quebec French. You said you didn't understand what the article said, and I was nervous that someone, not you, would post some inappropriate post with derision, just using it to hammer the WT.

  My point is: recognize appropriately the tragedy. Later, just as the Red Cross got in hot water over the trade center disaster, we can check out all the facts, and hidden motives if they are there.

  If doctors, health workers and relief workers are conscientiously doing their work on humanitarian grounds that is commendable. If the WT is getting mileage on their work and they are only bringing relief only to their own, their work is still commendable, but they will get bad press if their motives are proven with facts to be questionable.

  Just as on the UN threads, we need a credible translation and then verifiable facts to show exactly what they are doing.

  belbab

  PS. If a JW woman gave a public talk such as you posted. I would go and listen and applaud her, and then stand between her and the judicial committee coming to get her.
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  MadApostate

  PS. If a JW woman gave a public talk such as you posted. I would go and listen and applaud her, and then stand between her and the judicial committee coming to get her.

  The keyword is "IF", since the person quoted is NOT a JW, and is NOT a representative of "Aidafrique".
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  outnfree

  Kent,

  I am still working on the translation.
  I may have the first five pages (of 15) ready to go by the end of the day.
  Just so you don't give up on me.

  outnfree

  Par dessus toutes choses, soyez bons. La bonte est ce qui ressemble le plus a Dieu et ce qui desarme le plus les hommes -- Lacordaire