LONDON Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax 2018 Rouge Noir Pas Cher , March 25 (Xinhua) -- British politician Lord Bates will start his new journey of 3,000 km "Walk for the Olympic Truce" in April from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to raise funds for Unicef.
Michael Bates, 55, a member of the Hourse of Lords, announced Thursday that he is setting out on a 3,000-km solo-walk from Buenos Aires, the host city for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The five-month journey will start on April 6 and finish on Aug. 22 Chaussures Nike Vapormax Jaune Blanche Pas Cher , and he will walk through four countries in South America, namely Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. His wife Li Xuelin, a Chinese from Zhejiang Province, will assist him during his walking.
The purpose for the walk this time is to raise awareness for the UN Olympic Truce and to raise funds for Unicef, Lord Bates said.
Prior to the press conference for the walk on Thursday, the 10 Downing Street announced his resignation as a Minister of State at the Home Office.
In a letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron Chaussures Femme Nike Vapormax 2018 Rose Pas Cher , he wrote:"It must have been a very tough decision to decide to stand down - and a deeply personal one - but I understand completely your wish to pursue this venture and you do so with my warmest blessing."
"Your solo-walk from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro sounds like a hugely rewarding initiative - and a fitting addition to your already impressive efforts for the London 2012 Olympic truce," he wrote.
"With your Walk for Peace, you are carrying the spirit of the Olympic Truce into a world that needs the values of tolerance, solidarity and peace more than ever before," Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, wrote in a letter for Lord Bates.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, Lord Bates spent 71 days to complete his 1 Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax Blanche Pas Cher ,700-km walk from Beijing to Hangzhou last year.
The "Walk for the Olympic Truce" will be his 7th walk for charities, he told Xinhua.
"It first came to me that I undertook a shorter walk to raise money for a local charity. I found just through walking amazing thing happened, which was I got attention because people covered it as it is unusual for politicians to do walking and also I raised funds for the charity, and it seems so effective," he said.
The tradition of the Olympic Truce dates back to the 8th century BC, in Ancient Greece. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) revived the ancient concept of the Olympic Truce with the view to protecting, as far as possible, the interests of the athletes and sport in general Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Blanche Pas Cher , and to encourage searching for peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the conflicts around the world.
"I think it's very frustrating for anyone in the world to see so much human suffering, misery, war and conflict. I kind of think about peace in the Middle East or anywhere else, but I can do a walk for peace and talk about peace, and raise money for people who are helping to relieve the suffering of people," he told Xinhua.
To solve the world's problems was too vast, but people could take individual actions to make some difference, he added.
"Mahatma Gandhi, who said 'Be the change that you wish to see in the world', inspired me. I'm just trying to do that, trying to talk about peace, to talk about the power of sport, rather than war, to talk about people being together and rather than against each other, and to raise money for people I'm helping Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax Bleu Noir Pas Cher ," he said.
"We cannot solve all the problems, but we can, each individual, do something to make the world a better place," he added.
BRASILIA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The defense team of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Tuesday they would lodge a new complaint with the UN's Committee on Human Rights, saying that Lula has been suffering politically motivated judicial persecution.
Since July 2016, lawyers Cristiano Zanin Martins and Roberto Teixeira have accused Sergio Moro Chaussures Homme Nike Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Bleu Pas Cher , the judge overseeing Operation Car Wash anti-corruption investigation, of not being impartial toward Lula and of putting his rights in danger.
In October, the UN agreed to evaluate the case but has provided no opinion regarding Lula so far. Such investigations are confidential and can take up to two years.
Since then, Lula's lawyers have regularly provided new documents to the Committee on Human Rights to back up their claim.
The UN could decide not to accept the case, or could send recommendations to the Brazilian government on the operation of its judicial system.
This week, Lula's chief lawyer, British human rights expert Geoffrey Robertson, will hold a press conference in Geneva Chaussures Nike Vapormax Flyknit 2018 Grise Pas Cher , Switzerland, to explain the situation to the international press.
Last week, Lula was interrogated by Moro and said the charges against him were "a farce."
Lula is accused of being guilty of passive corruption and money laundering for having received assets from the construction company OAS worth a total of 3.7 million reais (1.15 million U.S. dollars), in exchange for favoring the company with public contracts.
In total, the former president is facing five separate legal cases, which could stop him from running in the 2018 presidential elections.
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