A Dream for Peace: Human Rights Drawings by Cambodian Children.Text by Jamie Metzl Jamie F. Metzl is the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society where he is responsible for overseeing the institutions's strategic directions and overall program activities globally. Design by Jan Arnesen, Gladys Nginga, Theng Chhorvirith UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (nŏm pĕn, pənŏm`) or Phnum Penh (pən  m`), city (1994 est. pop. , 1993, 50 pp. $17 Srong Sophy, an 11-year-old high-school girl, won first prize for the drawing she entered in a national competition for Cambodian children on the theme: "What human rights means to me". Her drawing in blue, white, green and brown depicts a great open hand in a bright sky holding a peaceful sun-drenched Cambodian village. Sponsored in 1992 by the Human Rights Component of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia, the competition brought entries from over 10,000 children. The prize-winning drawings and a selection of the other entries are reproduced in this beautiful book, with excerpts in English and Khmer from Buddhist literature Buddhist literature. During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the people, but in his own NE Indian dialect; he also encouraged his monks to propagate his teachings in the vernacular. and international human rights texts. A Dream for Peace is a fitting start for the reborn re·born adj. Emotionally or spiritually revived or regenerated. reborn Adjective active again after a period of inactivity Adj. 1. publishing industry of Phnom Penh. |
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