PEOPLE SUPPORT CAMPAIGN  TO END  VIOLENCE  AGAINST WOMEN

People of all  persuasions  turned out  to support the noble effort and add their signature to the banner petition calling on all religious leaders, politicians, media, academics and everyone else  to bring an end to violence against women.

Violence against women or anyone else is not acceptable it is only the extremists who say otherwise. We cannot remain silent about violence against women

because it is one of the worst forms of discrimination

and a blatant violation of their human rights. It is well

recorded that violence against women is mostly perpetrated by men and it has caused untold misery.

It has left many women living in fear and pain in every

country of the world.

 Violence against women must therefore be eliminated and we all need to address this atrocious discrimination by promoting women's equality and empowerment

and hereby ensuring that every woman's human rights

are fulfilled.        The Petition/Banner is on display at the Intercultural Peace Centre,                                      .                   Phone 01 4532114 or  087 9932581 

 

 

 

 

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          The Inter-faith Roundtable and Saor-Ollscoil na hEireann, has had its 2nd Annual Religious Peace Conference in St. Brigid’s Community Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 .

The inaugural conference last year was very successful in bringing together religious scholars, academics, politicians, members of different faith communities and the media, both national and international, to address issues of peace between creeds and adherents of creeds.

This year’s conference considered  the theme:‘Fundamentalism in Religions: Faith, Scope and Clarity’

Our world is changing at a phenomenal rate. Much has been made of economic globalisation, but perhaps the greatest change has been the globalisation of ideas. Fundamentalism in religion has gone global and Ireland will not be quarantined from the fall-out.

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Janusz Korczak was the pseudonym of the Polish-Jewish educator Henryk Goldszmit. He began working with orphans in 1908 and implemented his progressive theories on children's education and upbringing in the orphanage he ran in Warsaw.           On August 5, 1942, he accompanied his orphans from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka concentration camp, where he died with them. This sculpture, by Boris Saktsier, was erected at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in 1978.