Introducing

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. -- CS Lewis.


On this journey of learning about human rights, i thought it might be cool to start a blog that I can post thoughts, articles and essays I've written about Human Rights. The premise of all of this is that I am a learner. As such I may at times argue against my true position in order to explore all ways of thinking about human rights and to fully grasp the complexities and seemingly impossibilities. But I hope that you would
a. learn some new stuff about some of the issues I'll write about, and
b. this blog will create discussion and dialogue where we can together explore how we can protect and ensure that all human beings are loved, respected and protected.