But the common phrase in the three stories was: Run, run as fast as you can! often shouted out by teachers who at seeing armed individuals occupy the school grounds, or fire gunshots around the school area, knew that the only thing to save children’s lives was to run.
Millions of girls continue to experience disadvantage and discrimination that prevents and interrupts not only their right to education, but many of their other fundamental rights.
Here in Melbourne, Save the Children Australia is playing a very active part in the UN DPI/NGO conference on global health. Today Jasmine Whitbread and I took part in a discussion about the Millennium Development Goals and lessons learned for any targets which might apply after 2015.
On Tuesday this week, the participants from the International AIDS Conference were asked to join humans rights and AIDS activists, health workers, political leaders and people infected with and affected by HIV to march through the streets of Vienna with Annie Lennox.
