Laura Bush to visit France January 14-17

Laura Bush to visit France January 14-17 : "'Mrs. Bush will lead a delegation of US government officials involved in successful efforts here in the US aimed at preventing the exploitation of women and children and prosecuting offenders,' said Johndroe."

Explain to me why I have just spent 10 minutes on the Net in 4 different countries trying to find any reference to this meeting of the first women of several nations who are doing something positive for children’s rights and Laura Bush, in addition has been working on literacy issues for children? This is an article about the intended trip but on the French news last night I saw the account of their meeting. It was a big deal. It was important. Some of it was driven by Belgium trying to put to rest their awful Marc Dutroux case, and, given we have just had another little boy molested in the toilets at the Open Tennis and we are embarrassed about it…then we need to report this meeting and we need to acknowledge who was there. Had I known it was not going to be openly reported I’d’ve sat there with my pen and taken the names down myself. Obviously Laura Bush and Mme Chirac, but representatives from Brazil, Belgium and other countries. These women of import are getting off their bottoms to do something about the things happening to our children and we cannot even spare a bit of space in amongst all of the hot air and destructive stuff. Like these women, we have got to stop being embarrassed about it, get it out on the table in front of us, and rummage through it so we can make some better decisions with regard to our children’s safety and wellbeing. Then we can put the global literacy plans in place.