OPINION: Reflecting on peace, women rights during my recent visit to Japan

Visiting Japan in October 2019 reinforced my long-held conviction that we humans are in this life as together as ever. Obviously, the pursuit of human aspirations such as women's rights, peace, and security have no national boundaries.I visited Hiroshima on Oct. 6, 2019, which coincided with the attack on Lemera Hospital in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1996, where armed rebels from Rwanda killed at least 38 patients and three nurses at a time when the staff was already busy caring for about 300 patients.Wherever peace and human rights are being threatene…READ FULL ARTICLE