Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
Yiik Ador is a small, remote village overlooked by tall palms in Gogrial area, New (South) Sudan. Its people are traditionally cattle herders. Over the past 20 years the district has been ravaged by civil war, the raiding of nearly all livestock, and a devastating famine. These catastrophes have destroyed virtually all education, health and development support services.
Every day in the UK, approximately 2.5 million tampons, 1.4 million sanitary towels and 0.7 million panty liners are flushed, and 8 million nappies are thrown away. In East Sussex alone, about 28.5 million disposable nappies, plus tonnes of sanitary products, are buried underground in landfill sites every year.
The Brighton, Hove & District Branch of (External) WILPF were pleased to support the opening of the new BPEC premises with a donation, and to initiate an annual affiliation. We wish the Centre every success for the future.
Those of us who understood what the war in Iraq would mean knew it was important to voice our concerns, and raise awareness of the other side of the debate. The explanation for the suffering cannot be reduced to blaming a barbarous totalitarian regime. The real problem is the lack of understanding between peoples, the lack of concern amongst the general public, and intervention in the guise of humanitarianism that is in fact for self-interest and profit.
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Brighton Peace & Environment Centre,
Address: 39-41 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PB. United Kingdom.
Tel: UK (01273) 766610
Email: info@bpec.org
Web: www.bpec.org
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