Ok. I found this on Muggle net about JK's letter to the Chez ambassador in UK, is about a practise to put mentally retarded or handicaped boys in a cage. Read it bellow, and on bahalf of Hogwarts I appeal to all of our community here at KMC to search the net, find the e-mail address of the chez government (I will do it my self) and send them PROTESTING OWLS!
Rescuing friends from the dungeons of Hogwarts school is all in a day's work for Harry Potter, the magical hero of five children's books that have racked up $250 million US in sales.
But his creator J.K. Rowling has embarked on an even bolder quest - to free the disabled children who are locked in cages at care homes in eastern Europe.
Rowling was shocked by a Sunday Times report last month which focused on a five-year-old boy called Vasek Knotek.
Vasek starts screaming at 11 a.m. each day as he is returned to his cage after being let out briefly for washing and feeding at the Raby home, near Prague, capital of the Czech Republic.
Like four other mentally handicapped children at the home and a toddler with cerebral palsy, he has no teddy bears or toys to comfort or console him, receives no visits and has little human contact, except when his diaper is changed.
The report was based on the observations of an undercover journalist posing as a prospective social worker
Appealing to Stefan Fule, the ambassador, as a fellow parent, she said she could imagine only too easily the "permanent damage that is being inflicted" on the children.
"I am sure that I am not alone in feeling a deep sense of shock that a fellow member of the European Union like the Czech Republic could permit such abuses," she added.
Her intervention could be critical to the outcome of a debate triggered by the article in the former eastern bloc country.
"There was a letter from Potter," said an excited official at the embassy. "Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling - that's when we realized that this was serious and was not just going to blow over."
A further letter from Rowling to her Member of the European Parliament, Catherine Stihler, left no doubt about the strength of her feelings on behalf of both children and adults confined to cages.
"I am sure that I am one of many who were horrified beyond words to read about the neglect and abuse of such very vulnerable people; indeed, the word torture does not seem too strong," she wrote.
this is the link
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004/07/11/f215.raw.html
this is the email address of the checz government
[email protected]
^That is horrific and I'm glad Rowling is using her unfluence to help give it more public attention and also directly getting involved. I read the whole article from that link and I think her course of action is probably the most reliable one - because if we were to send emails to the Czech Govt I doutb they would be read unless it was like some huge petition which I think will probably be started soon anyway thankfully.
Writing to our Czech Ambassadors and MEP's (Member of European Parliament) in our own cities/countries I think might work better because they have the authority or power to try and take action. For people not in the EU writing to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (mentioned in the article) would be good too.
Originally posted by RebelPhoenix
^That is horrific and I'm glad Rowling is using her unfluence to help give it more public attention and also directly getting involved. I read the whole article from that link and I think her course of action is probably the most reliable one - because if we were to send emails to the Czech Govt I doutb they would be read unless it was like some huge petition which I think will probably be started soon anyway thankfully.Writing to our Czech Ambassadors and MEP's (Member of European Parliament) in our own cities/countries I think might work better because they have the authority or power to try and take action. For people not in the EU writing to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (mentioned in the article) would be good too.
It is not the same if only celebreties or writers express their disaproval or when their examples are followed by others.
DON'T SEAT AND WATCH MOVE AND ACT!