Displaced People Worldwide: A Responsibility to Protect Fred O’Brien, Former Chairman & Hon VP IFEH

Sagres, Portugal, 1988 Christopher Columbus & others studied marine navigation, map making and science here, the most southerly community in Portugal and the most south-westerly in continental Europe.

Bartolomé de las Casas In the forty years since 1492 “with the infernal actions of the Christians” some twelve to fifteen million native people of the Indies “have been unjustly slain”. Bartolomé de las Casas; The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account

Statement Discovered on a Headteacher’s Noticeboard Dear Teacher, I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness: Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates. So I am suspicious of education. Continued

My request is: Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns. Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.

Apology by Pope Francis to Native people of the Americas in Bolivia

United Nations World Summit 2005 170 nations adopt a policy to protect

Positive story of a resettled displaced family (See Story) Source: CNEWA, 2015

2,500 new Irish citizens welcomed on July 17, 2015.

One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself World Faiths The Golden Rule: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself

International Centre for Environmental Health Each and Every Person is an International Centre for Environmental Health The environment is gifted with its own integrity and dynamic balance; and each and every person and the communities of people bear a responsibility for the care of the environment and of each other. www.iceh.net

Have Confidence Have Confidence Have Confidence Reach for the skies, up she goes! With gusto in it, beauty shows. Stretch the boundaries, barriers break. Shoot for heaven, shackles shake. Back flip, pike, somersault, Hand stand, inward, swallow. Take the board and shoot aloft, Faith will bring the morrow.   Fred O’Brien Have Confidence Have Confidence Have Confidence