Peace Talk Challenge…share your thoughts about peace ...inner peace, interpersonal peace or global peace…ideas and actions…what you are doing, could do, or will do…help you need or help you can give. At the end of the month we will pick one response and the winner will receive an official BPNP tee shirt. Please use this link to email your story (and please add your name and address…in case you win!), or email calltoaction@BringPeaceNotpain.com  Thanks, Suzi

Students, Teachers, Parents: Help End the Use of Child Soldiers

Join the Red Hand Day Campaign to urge the United Nations to take stronger action to end the use of child soldiers.

The aim of the Red Hand Day Campaign is to gather one million “red hands”—the symbol of the global campaign against the use of child soldiers—and present them to UN officials in New York on February 12, 2009, the anniversary of the day the treaty banning the use of child soldiers took effect.

Participating in the campaign is easy

1) Use red paint to make a handprint on a sheet of paper, and add a personal message about your desire to end the use of child soldiers; organize others at your school or in your community to do the same;

2) Upload photos or videos of your event to www.redhandday.org;

3) Send your red hands by February 2009 to Human Rights Watch, 350 5th Ave, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10118

http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/features/childsoldiers/video.htm