Dalai Lama to visit Derry 21.05.07

The Dalai Lama will be the keynote speaker at the Children in Crossfire 10th anniversary conference in Derry in July. The two-day seminar titled 'A Promise for the Future' will be held on July 17th and July 18th in the City Hotel and Millennium Forum.

Children in Crossfire was founded in 1996 by Richard Moore who was shot and blinded in 1972 as he walked home from school at the age of 10. The charity aims, through a multi-agency approach, to eradicate child poverty throughout the world. A number of other speakers will also take part in the July event including Jane
Olson of Human Rights Watch, veteran journalist Fergal Keane and Irish Foreign Affairs Minister, Dermot Ahern. It will take the form of a variety of talks and workshops on children's rights with delegates getting the chance to exchange experiences and engage in critical dialogue. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was born into a peasant family and was recognised, at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the 13th Dalai Lama. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
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