(Brazil) Independent Expert for the UN Secretary- General’s Study on Violence against Children...continue

Karl Popper and Konrad Lorenz - two old humming birds with very different ideas about the present and about mankind - once met in Altenburg and privately agreed on Man’s directional willpower: “all living things are in search of a better world”, every single living being is trying to find a better world “or at least is trying to stay, and keep afloat, for as long as possible where the world is a better place”. In addition, they share the view that “Nothing is set in stone, and everything is possible”...continue

Do we really have to resign ourselves to the moral condemnation expressed in Francisco de Quevedo’s sonnet that so moved and overwhelmed Anna Maria Ortese? “Hello Life! … Anything Answering?” Wherever we turn our eyes or our ears, everything is contrition, a painful moment, the collapse and headlong decline of the world based on reason and law, as the historical jounalist, Joachim Fest, recently observed. So? Hello Life! … Anybody Answering? We are not here to feel sorry for ourselves or drown our vision in a sea of hard-won cinicism.…continue

Concrete experience of the Children’s Development Bank, the first bank initiated and run by the street and working children...continue

Representatives of the international organisations involved with children and personalities from many fields, will give an up-date on the situation of children’s suffering thus giving them a “voice" ...continue

Child labour, child soldiers, street-children, children exploited for sex or pornography… Where do we begin? Where do we find a source of strength to breach the ever-tightening circle of criminal acts that besiege and beleaguer the world’s children with a stranglehold, of which no corner even of our so-called civilised nations can be said to be entirely free? ...continue

How to significantly improve the emotional, intellectual and social development of one’s own children in a joyful and sensitive manner ...continue

“Those who have never looked a child of Nature in the eye have never seen anything paternal or maternal, and have never seen anything divine […] however many altars they may have worshipped at […]. I love little things, I love infinitely small, mute things, that gaze at us with courage”. ...continue

What does this all add up to, then? Is it possible now to roughly outline some kind of positive hypothesis after, unfortunately, reviewing so many direly negative scenarios? Hello Life: are we at last ready to answer ?...continue