About Rose: I grew up in Singapore, lived in Melbourne but currently call London home. I love gastronomic adventures, especially while travelling. I stated writing at 17 to remember how it all began.
“Then there’s human rights and our
support for democracy and the rule of law, levers of power and values we cannot
afford to ignore. In the last century, the United
States led the world in recognizing that
universal rights exist and that governments are obligated to protect them. Now
we have placed ourselves at the frontlines of today’s emerging battles, like the
fight to defend the human rights of the LGBT communities around the world and
religious minorities wherever and whoever they are. But it’s not a coincidence
that virtually every country that threatens regional and global peace is a place
where human rights are in peril or the rule of law is weak. More
specifically, places where women and girls are treated as second-class, marginal
human beings. Just ask young Malala from Pakistan. Ask the women of northern
Mali who live in fear and can no
longer go to school. Ask the women of the Eastern
Congo who endure rape as a weapon of war. And
that is the final lever that I want to highlight briefly. Because the jury is
in, the evidence is absolutely indisputable: If women and girls everywhere were
treated as equal to men in rights, dignity, and opportunity, we would see
political and economic progress everywhere. So this is not only a moral issue,
which, of course, it is. It is an economic issue and a security issue, and it is
the unfinished business of the 21st century.
It therefore must be central to U.S. foreign
policy.”
"It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will" - A change is gonna come, Sam Cooke