On Tuesday 10 December, International Human Rights Day, Past President Ozuem Esiri of Nigeria curated a global Zoom meeting, attended by 80 people from around the world, which featured five speakers:

• Tahera Khadini – 15 year old Tahera Khadini, who speaks maturely about the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan, who are denied basic human rights: freedom of movement, education, protection from violence etc. A moving talk.
• Dr Ira Helfland – Immediate Past President of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), who gives a scary expose of the biggest threat the world faces today i.e. nuclear war. It has to be heard to be believed.  
• Dorothy Gilmour – President of Rotary Hawthorn and past member and director of Rotary Melbourne, who talks about her Safe Families program, which has the potential of being scaled up to a global Rotary audience. Dorothy speaks with her usual clear and practical approach on the three Rs: Recognising the signs, Raising concerns and Referring to the right agency.
• Robert Fisher – tells the story of how we are so close to eliminating Polio, and of District 9800’s End Polio Now Walk; demonstrating how easy it is for individuals, teams, Rotary Clubs and Districts to raise funds which are then tripled thanks to the generosity of the Gates Foundation.
• Rev Laura George – who has started the Founding Mothers Movement, which aims to empower women and end war by uniting people around the globe to build a planetary coalition for partnership and peace, growing a women’s congress and undertaking international, non-violent campaigns to accomplish humanitarian objectives under the motto “truth, love and light”. 

You can join the 10 from our District who attended by using this link:  

www.mega-meeting.com

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