On Saturday, 8 March, the Vatican celebrated International Woman's Day by giving voice to some of the "hidden" women of the world. An initiative of Voices of Faith, the event featured the personal stories of nearly a dozen women from various walks of life; among them were educators, contemplative sisters, a lawyer, and a mother of nine children.
"We were looking for stories which were personal and touching about women," said Chantal Götz, executive director of the Fidel Götz Foundation (FGF), sponsor of VoF. She told ZENIT "the priority was to have invisible women to make them more visible, not someone who has already [received] an award, who is famous, or maybe was promoting herself."
Götz said that the inspiration for this event, which was broadcast live via the internet from the Vatican's San Carlo Cinema, came from a desire to share the stories of the many women she encounters in her work. "We have a lot of hidden women," she said, "but we also have a lot of courageous women, and those are the ones I am looking for."
The choice of locale for the event, Götz explained, was also symbolic. "I had in mind this cinema because it is a symbol of communication," she said. "It's a symbol of the heart of the Vatican. With the stories of the heart of these women it's somehow fit all together."
One of the stories was shared by Katrine Camelleri, a lawyer and assistant director of Malta's Jesuit Refugee Service. During her talk, Camelleri spoke about the "walls" she comes up against in her work, and "what the implications of these walls are for the people who come up against them." Citing the Lampedusa tragedy as an example, she explained how many of those killed in the shipwreck would have qualified for visas, but had not been able to obtain them on account of bureaucracy.
The aim of her talk, she told ZENIT, was "to explain why I do this work, and what keeps me going in this job, which can be quite difficult… but also, maybe, to raise a bit of awareness about the realities that I see on a daily basis."
"In our modern world we have created a lot of ways of connecting virtually," she said, "but we have stopped communicating in many ways… We have stopped reaching out to people. We really encounter people a lot less. In attitude, we need to make the step, reach out, meet with people. That's what's important. We need to have an interest in the other, and care about what's happening to the other."
"Like with everything else, it starts from within, so it's about an internal attitude. I think this is where we have to start from."
Another testimony came from Sr. Azizet Kidane, an Eritrean nun with the Comboni Missionary Sisters, who works with victims of human trafficking. A volunteer for Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, she spoke candidly of the encounters she has had with victims of trafficking and torture, graphically highlighting the suffering many of them have endured.
Speaking with ZENIT, Sr. Azizet called for women to strive for equality, thereby embracing the complementarity between men and women. "When we are complimentary," she said, "we will produce more, we will give fruits, and we will make a lot of difference to our world, and to ourselves, the Church, to communities, and to our world."
She also called on women to move beyond the pain they have experienced in their lives. "We need really to come up and see the future bright," she said.
"I really want all women to reconcile with their memories, to reconcile with their past, and to be women of courage and hope."
While the primary aim of the gathering was to bring to the forefront women who are contributing to society, Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary for the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (which co-sponsored the event), noted how the contributors did not "so much speak of their experience as women but as people of the Church, people who contribute to the ministry and to the life of the Church, and some, anyways, who happen to be women."
"These are people who are talking about taking the Gospel, and taking particularly the social justice dimensions of the Gospel, into places where the lack of social justice intrinsically is connected to the lack of respect for women," he said. The speakers "were not ideological, but essentially driven by a desire to help, not just women but to help society. We're seeing ways and examples of things that can be done."
Andrea Hatter Bramson, president of the Loyola Foundation, which partners with the FGF, said the diverse stories created something akin to a "spider web." "These things don't look like they touch until they actually follow the lines and realize there is a relationship between those who defend their country and those who seek refuge from a country," she said.
The various testimonies demonstrated "the relationship between those who suffer the indignities of human trafficking through slavery, and those who seek refuge, and those who are defenders, and those who also find, in their contemplative life, how all of these things – through their energy and through their prayer – can be changed and can be better."
One of those attending the event was Kerry Robinson, executive director of the US-based National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. "We need to pay attention to the stories of others," she told ZENIT, noting that the stories of women are often not placed at the forefront. "If we ignore that rich tapestry, we are all impoverished. In a preferential way – not just today, but every day moving forward – I think it is incumbent upon us as members of the Church to identify and lift up those voices of the Church, of women in particular, that we don't frequently hear."
"It's not that any of the participants here want to trumpet themselves," Robinson continued, "but the stories that they have to tell enrich our faith. All of us, women and men."


Anyone seeking evidence of how Europe's big utility companies are evolving should look at the announcement today from Centrica.
The owner of British Gas is pooling its European oil and gas exploration and production assets with those of Bayerngas Norge, the Norway-based producer owned by the German multi-utility Stadtwerke Munchen and Bayerngas, its production arm.
The joint venture will include Centrica's exploration and production assets in Britain, Norway and the Netherlands along with Bayerngas Norge's assets in Britain, Norway and Denmark.
It will be 69% owned by Centrica and will be Europe's largest independent exploration and production company, with the vast majority of its assets in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea, two-thirds of which will be in natural gas.
It will have more than 650 employees in Aberdeen, Stavanger, Oslo and Hoofdorp in the Netherlands and will have access to 625 million barrels of proved and probable oil and gas reserves.
Although it will continue to be owned by both businesses, after two years, it is possible the joint venture will be floated as a separate company in its own right.
The move is important for a couple of reasons. The first is because it is a recognition by both parties of the rising cost of operating in the North Sea.
This is one of the world's most mature oil and gas production assets – in other words, the most accessible oil and gas reserves there have already been extracted, meaning that what is left there will be harder and more expensive to take out.
Accordingly, with oil prices having fallen for the last three years, an increasing number of operators are seeking to join forces in order to bring down costs and achieve greater economies of scale by pooling rigs, technical expertise and other assets.
For example, just over a year ago, BP announced it was pooling its Norwegian assets with those of the local operator Det Norske. The business they formed, Aker BP, is presently the largest independent European exploration and production company.
The second reason this move is significant is because it shows how Europe's utility companies are moving away from old production assets in order to concentrate on the more straightforward business of supplying energy to households and businesses.
The French utility Engie, whose origins lie in the old state-owned gas and electricity producer Gaz de France, recently sold its exploration and production assets to Neptune Energy, a private equity-backed business led by Sam Laidlaw, the former Centrica chief executive.
The German power giant E.ON has also reorganised itself to reduce its dependence on its old fossil fuel businesses.
In the case of Centrica, this move is another staging post in the journey on which the company has been since, as British Gas, it was privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government in 1986.
British Gas subsequently split itself into two businesses – Centrica and BG Group. BG went on to demerge Lattice, the owner of the UK's gas pipeline network, which was later taken over by National Grid.
BG Group itself was taken over last year by Royal Dutch Shell. Centrica, meanwhile, continued to own a number of exploration and production assets as well as expanding into nuclear energy production via the 2009 purchase of a 20% stake in the formerly state-owned British Energy.
That same year, it also bought Venture Production, a leading operator of mature North Sea gas assets. More recently, though, it has been selling exploration and production properties, including its gas assets in Trinidad and Tobago and its Canadian exploration and production assets.
It clearly sees its future in customer-facing operations and to that end, also recently offloaded its last two big UK power stations, while its 20% stake in the old British Energy – the rest is owned by EDF – is also thought to be up for sale.
In future, Centrica intends to make its money from customer service, achieving growth by selling services and products that enable customers to use energy more efficiently such as smart meters and thermostats.
It is all a lot less buccaneering than North Sea oil and gas production – but a recognition that the way in which energy is produced and consumed is changing rapidly.


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Is their school liable for your kids' safety?
Nothing frightens parents like the thought of their child being in an unsafe situation. Children are vulnerable and we trust childcare workers and school staff to keep their best interests at mind and a hawk-like watch on them at all times. But sometimes accidents happen.
It's fairly normal to find children coming home from school with cuts and bruises every now and then, whether from running around, participating in sport or lunchtime games, or just being generally overly excited. However, if your child sustains a serious injury due to the negligence of the school, you may have a personal injury claim, depending on the circumstances.
Schools owe a duty to students to take reasonable care for their safety. That duty applies to all students on school premises, and where students venture off campus while under the control of staff, such as on excursions, at camps or other sporting or recreational activities.
However, the right to compensation is not automatic. There's no requirement for schools to supervise children at all times nor is there a fixed student-to-teacher supervisory ratio, each case is accessed individually. Courts do not expect schools or teachers to have eyes on the back of their head or be able to stop every single playground accident. Kids like to play, and accidents do happen.
For more information, go to: Public Liability – Schools
Most schools have policies regarding the minimum number of staff supervising the grounds during break periods.
However, teachers will not be expected to prevent all misbehaviour unless the action represents a protracted breach of disciplines, such as a stick fight or a game involving running on hard pavement. The school's duty of care is at it's highest when children are inside a classroom, as teachers would be expected to have the capacity and control to supervise that space.
The standard of care depends on many factors, including the student's age, capacity, intelligence, disability, the level of risk involved and the teacher's past knowledge. So although you may have a claim against your child's school there are a number of factors which may come into play in establishing a duty of care.
If you need further advice or have any questions feel free to give one of our professionals a call on 07 3210 3437.
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At LewRockwell.com, Paul Craig Roberts accuses the New York Times of carrying on a "deadly attack of deconstructing America." He writes (abridged):
The vast majority of the New York Times's subscribers are white people.
These are people who apparently are so emotionally and mentally weak and so full of guilt and self-loathing that they support a rabid anti-American propaganda organization that brands its readers "racists" and delegitimizes the founding principles of the United States.
The US Defense Secretary, Espy, distracts us with the "Russian and Chinese enemies," while the worst enemy that the United States has ever had—The New York Times—carries on its deadly attack of deconstructing America.
"We should not underestimate what is at stake here. The 1619 Project wants to delegitimize the US's founding principles, and the universalist Enlightenment tradition from which they emerged.
We shouldn't confine our opposition to such a destructive objective to the media. It must be opposed in our schools, our universities and our wider communities, too." — Sean Collins.
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