In a way I think this blog has been a long time coming. It's taken me a number of years, various jobs and any number of learning experiences to decide that I have this interest in human rights to the extent that I do - i.e. where I want to do something about it on a daily basis.
I want to commend to anyone reading at this point, the book "What Colour is Your Parachute?" by Richard Nelson Bolles. Unlike many books/systems of its kind, it only seeks to make you think about your preferences for life in general, and then leave you free to research the possibilities that would fit those preferences. I am hugely grateful to my friend Joel for recommending it to me.
To be brief, this blog is to be a record of my thoughts while reading around the subject of human rights through reports compiled by Human Rights Watch, as well as other sources - for example I am currently reading "The Fear" by Peter Godwin, documenting the violent oppression of the people of Zimbabwe since Robert Mugabe's negated defeat in 2008.
The purpose of this blog is not to disseminate information that I obtain but to try to find ways of doing something with or about it.
If writing the reports or books has not and does not change things (and with all the respect in the world for the writers
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