Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech

Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech; Gordon Brown speech SOT - You know, there is a golden thread of common humanity that across nations and faiths binds us together and it can light the darkest corners of the world / And the message should go out to anyone facing persecution anywhere from Burma to Zimbabwe / human rights are universal and no injustice can last forever (applause) / I know that people will look back on events in Darfur as they did in Rwanda and say why did you the most powerful countries in the world fail to act, to come to the aid of those with the least power? / Who can fail to be moved by the mother in Darfur who saved her two youngest children from militias and hid them away? / She then rushed back to her village to find her husband and older son murdered - and then was repeatedly raped by the Janjawid / All for being a member of the wrong tribe, all for acting upon that shared human impulse to protect her own children / Her story touches our deepest conscience / it summons us to act / In my first weeks I went to the United Nations where we fought for and secured a clear and unequivocal UN Resolution / We have sent a message directly to the government of Sudan / make progress or face tougher new sanctions /And we will not rest until there is an end to the aerial bombings, a ceasefire, a lasting political settlement and justice for the women and children of Darfur / One of the great challenges we now face is to work together for peace and security in the Middle East / Tony Blair, for thirteen years the Leader of our Party, is now leading in the middle east peace effort and let me here acknowledge the contribution he is making now and the debt we owe as a party and as a country to the leadership of Tony Blair / And as the Northern Ireland Assembly meets, thanks also to the work of Tony Blair, let us celebrate that Northern Ireland is now building prosperity because it is now enjoying peace / And working internationally for ...
Labour Party Conference: Gordon Brown's keynote speech; Gordon Brown speech SOT - You know, there is a golden thread of common humanity that across nations and faiths binds us together and it can light the darkest corners of the world / And the message should go out to anyone facing persecution anywhere from Burma to Zimbabwe / human rights are universal and no injustice can last forever (applause) / I know that people will look back on events in Darfur as they did in Rwanda and say why did you the most powerful countries in the world fail to act, to come to the aid of those with the least power? / Who can fail to be moved by the mother in Darfur who saved her two youngest children from militias and hid them away? / She then rushed back to her village to find her husband and older son murdered - and then was repeatedly raped by the Janjawid / All for being a member of the wrong tribe, all for acting upon that shared human impulse to protect her own children / Her story touches our deepest conscience / it summons us to act / In my first weeks I went to the United Nations where we fought for and secured a clear and unequivocal UN Resolution / We have sent a message directly to the government of Sudan / make progress or face tougher new sanctions /And we will not rest until there is an end to the aerial bombings, a ceasefire, a lasting political settlement and justice for the women and children of Darfur / One of the great challenges we now face is to work together for peace and security in the Middle East / Tony Blair, for thirteen years the Leader of our Party, is now leading in the middle east peace effort and let me here acknowledge the contribution he is making now and the debt we owe as a party and as a country to the leadership of Tony Blair / And as the Northern Ireland Assembly meets, thanks also to the work of Tony Blair, let us celebrate that Northern Ireland is now building prosperity because it is now enjoying peace / And working internationally for ...
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