27 March 2004
CALL FOR CB’s TO CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN
Responding to a recent call from Pope John Paul II for all people of good will to focus on the plight of children in our modern world, Br Mark McDonnell a member of the Christian Brothers Leadership Team based in Rome has recently written in support of the proposal for the Christian Brothers to adopt a global “corporate stance” and actively campaign to promote the rights of children.
Noting the range of justice issues directly affecting children, from emotional and sexual abuse, forced prostitution, involvement in the sale and use of drugs; children forced to work or enlisted for combat; young children scarred forever by the break up of the family; little ones caught up in the obscene trafficking of organs and persons to the tragedy of AIDS he suggests that there are many different levels at which people might become involved in working for the Rights of Children such as
- direct involvement in the work itself
- proclaiming in the public arena the gross injustices done to children and exposing child injustice wherever it is to be found
- lobbying at the political level of the change of laws and the recognition of rights
-awareness raising through education programmes
- collaborating with others in promoting the Rights of Children
- being a support person for those more immediately involved through prayer, through solidarity and through the thousand and one practical ways in which a generous heart will find means of supporting a cause in which he believes passionately
The full text of Br Mark’s article can be found by clicking on the link at left.
Noting the range of justice issues directly affecting children, from emotional and sexual abuse, forced prostitution, involvement in the sale and use of drugs; children forced to work or enlisted for combat; young children scarred forever by the break up of the family; little ones caught up in the obscene trafficking of organs and persons to the tragedy of AIDS he suggests that there are many different levels at which people might become involved in working for the Rights of Children such as
- direct involvement in the work itself
- proclaiming in the public arena the gross injustices done to children and exposing child injustice wherever it is to be found
- lobbying at the political level of the change of laws and the recognition of rights
-awareness raising through education programmes
- collaborating with others in promoting the Rights of Children
- being a support person for those more immediately involved through prayer, through solidarity and through the thousand and one practical ways in which a generous heart will find means of supporting a cause in which he believes passionately
The full text of Br Mark’s article can be found by clicking on the link at left.
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