El Ex Primer Ministro de Australia, Kevin Rudd y dos líderes aborígenes hablaron anoche sobre los procesos de sanación que surgieron del pedido de perdón en público de Rudd, presentado en la apertura del Parlamento en 2008, a las "generaciones robadas" de los niños que fueron arrebatados de sus familias. Junto con Rudd también hablaron Jackie Huggins, portavoz de los aborígenes e historiadora y Daryle Rigney, Decano de la Estrategia Indígena y Compromiso de la Universidad de Flinders.

Kevin Rudd, ehemaliger Premierminister von Australien und zwei führende Aborigines sprachen am Mittwoch 11. Juli über die Heilungserfahrungen, als Reaktion auf Rudds öffentliche Entschuldigung, mit der er sich bei der Parlamentseröffnung 2008 an die „Stolen Generation“ (gestohlenen Generationen) von Kindern wandte, die gewaltsam aus ihren Familien gerissen worden waren. Der historische Abend war Teil des 5. Caux Forums für Menschliche Sicherheit im Caux Konferenzzentrum in der Schweiz.

Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and two leading Aboriginals spoke last night about the processes of healing springing from Rudd’s public apology presented at the opening of parliament in 2008 to the ‘stolen generations’ of children forcibly removed from their families. Speaking with Rudd were Jackie Huggins, an Aboriginal spokesperson and historian and Daryle Rigney, the Dean of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University.

El Dr Roddy Evans escribe desde Irlanda del Norte sobre la publicación de un nuevo reporte oficial de los eventos del "Domingo Sangriento" , el 30 de enero de 1972, cuando las tropas británicas mataron a 1 civiles en Derry/Londonderry. El 15 de junio, cuando se publicó el reporte, el Primer Ministro David Cameron, en nombre de su Gobierno, se disculpó en la Cámara de los Comunes, con las afligidas familias.

Dr Roddy Evans writes from Northern Ireland about the publication of a new official report into the events of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on 30 January 1972 when British troops killed 14 civilians in Derry/Londonderry. On 15 June when the report was published, Prime Minister David Cameron, apologized in the House of Commons to the bereaved families on behalf of his Government.

On November 17, the United States Institute of Peace hosted a screening of "Apology," a short film that captured the historic apology of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Australia's indigenous peoples. His remarks on February 13th, 2008 were addressed specifically to members of the "Stolen Generations" for the wrongs committed against them by the Australian government.

At the initiative of members of the IofC team in Lebanon, a letter was recently published in the newspaper Al-Safir. It was in response to the ‘Palestinian Declaration for Lebanon’ made on the initiative of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and issued by Abbas Zaki, the representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon on 7 January 2008.

When Australia’s Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, stood up in Parliament three months ago to face up to the shameful past policies towards Indigenous Australians and to offer a formal apology, John Bond knew more than most about the decade-long journey of campaigning it had taken to get there. Bond was a guest-speaker at the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 13 May.

National Sorry Day – Australia
From Saying Sorry to a Journey of Healing

Seldom can the uttering of one word have caused such joy across a nation.