Summer internships take HRP students into some of the most challenging, tormented and sometimes desperate places in the world. Their field reports reveal the breadth and diversity of human rights problems and the students' sometimes life-transforming reactions to them. And behind that sign was a cot, and in it was a living tragedy-a child with the classic symptoms of gross malnutrition. Those enormous expressionless eyes seemed to penetrate deep within me. Children's rights is particularly urgent in South Africa, where 40 percent of the black population is under fourteen.
Black children have to grow up very quickly, for their lives are so utterly brutalized.
In Inanda, the current games include playing catch with the tear-gas canisters. I realized in the weeks following a rally I witnessed in the Catholic church of St. John Bosco, these activities are only instrumental to a larger end, that of remaking political life. I understood that the broader goal of human rights work is to help the growth of new, just and democratic organizations for tomorrow's society-something more than simply fomenting today's revolution. Human rights work must not only denounce and decry the abuses of power, but also nurture an alternative to them. Paolo G. Carozza '89 Carozza worked for the League of Former Haitian Political Prisoners in 1988.