Serious gap between decision makers, people result in lack of moral accountability: Satyarthi

Nobel Peace Laureates Jose Manuel Ramos Horta from East Timor and Oscar Arias Sanchez from Costa Rica attended the event virtually.Satyarthi said he launched a new movement called Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion in close partnership with a number of Nobel Laureates and world leaders to tackle the lag in moral accountability, which, he said, is stemming from lack of compassion.”When I talk of compassion, I’m not talking about kindness, sympathy, love or philanthropy. These are good human traits, but they cannot solve the deep-rooted problems which stemmed from systemic discrepancies and discriminations,” he added.He said often compassion is perceived as a weak emotion or a gentle feeling.”But compassion is a force born out of the feeling of suffering of others as one’s own, which drives one to take action mindfully. So, I am trying to redefine, rearticulate, reinvigorate and relaunch the power of compassion,” said Satyarthi.The Nobel Laureate from India who is a champion of child rights, also urged India to emulate the United Arab Emirates, which is tackling intolerance by inculcating a sense of tolerance among the school children in a very systematic way.”I would also say that all the governments in the world should teach their citizenry how to co-exist and how to be tolerant to each other and how to listen to each other,” added Satyarthi.In India, a lot of work has been done by a number of civil society organisations, faith institutions and academia in this regard, Satyayarthi pointed out.



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