What I am doing:

I am currently working with an organization called Peace Brigades International in Nepal. This organization does international human rights accompaniment work. I am assigned to shadow threatened human rights workers to act as a witness and deterrent to political violence. I represent both the implied and actual attention of the international community. Thus, my presence along with a great deal of diplomacy work with all levels of government and military functions to prevent violence directed at these people. If further threats or a confrontation does occur concerning the person I am accompanying, or myself, an Emergency Response Network is activated that puts heavy pressure on the perpetrators. This network extends from simple actions from people like yourself to high level diplomatic sanctions, pressure from UN officials, Pressure from other countries' governments, etc... This, along with other nonviolent forms of action work to protect these people's lives and allow them to do their very important work.





Sunday, July 25, 2010

Pictures below

Ok so i finally got some pictures loaded on here. And it took about 6 hours with the internet I have so I hope you enjoy them! =) The first one is of me and my homestay brother Dinesh, whom I became very close to. I went with him one day to AB News television where he works as a digital editor. The second picture is of me and Dinesh's son. He is incredibly cute and one of the two little kids who live in the house i stayed in. I played/parented him every day while i was there and just went back to visit them yesterday. The third one is of my homestay mother and father. There are actually 9 people in this family but seeing how long it takes to get pictures loaded you might have to meet them at intervals. And the last picture is of our "yard" during the wheat harvest. After much convincing they let me help with the harvest. After the wheat sat out in the sun (as in the picture) we beat it on a slanted rock until all the grains were separated from the stalk. It was quite strenuous and I loved every minute. Ok thats all for now
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pictures from the village




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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

July Update

I have been trying to upload pictures here,but I just cant seem to find internet fast enough here to get it to work. I will keep trying though and hopefully get some visuals to you guys. I hope you are all doing well. I am doing fine, myself. I am back in Kathmandu for some training and a bunch of meetings. It is the monsoon right now and all of our partner organizations are busy planting their rice patties and doing little Human Rights work so we took the time to do this further training. It is nice in some ways to be back in Kathmandu, mainly weather and visiting people, but i miss Bardiya already. I was just starting to get settled in and make some friends so I am eager to return. The work is challenging but good. I cant write any details on here for security reasons,but I have done some personal accompaniments, lots of security analysis, written lots of documents for various people and things, met several people both Human Rights Defenders and authorities in several places in Nepal. Mostly we work in the Midwest around Bardiya, but i got out to take a field trip to a district in another region recently. I am really enjoying getting a new view of Nepal by spending so much time outside of Kathmandu.

Thats all for now, but I will try to add pictures before too long.
~Patrick
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