What more is there to say other than
‘Haste Ye Back Scotland’
January 29, 2020
January 12, 2020
People Trapped but a Little Hope
It’s hard to be sanguine, enlightened.
“Soil is carefully dug and then brushed away and the bags removed from the ground. Inside are bones but also small items that give a touch of humanity and threads of stories where flesh – and names – are missing. A little note. A half-drunk bottle of water. Prayer beads, a soft toy.”
But the UK is no better: ‘vetting’ all applications for children stuck in Calais wanting to join their parents and relations already in the UK.
There is hope and action from the young
“Texas State University graduate students lift the remains of a migrant from a gravesite at La Grulla cemetery on 17 December 2019 as part of the project Operation Identification. Photograph: Gabriela Campos”
I note that there is the UN
Declaration of the Rights of the Child Law and Legal Definition
But this is ‘none binding’
Surely in an ‘enlightened’ world the UN Declaration of Human Rights should be extended to include the Free Movement of All Peoples.
And be binding.
After all, we live in a so called ‘Global World’
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