Voice of Voiceless: Objectives

'Voice of Voiceless' represents the distant and the unheard voices of the voiceless people the world over, the east, the west, the south, and the north, living under extremely difficult political, social and economic conditions, conditions not of their making. They include the peoples in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, and South America whose pathetic conditions need to be exposed and others made aware.

The vast majority of the indigenous peoples the world over live below the poverty line without access to goods and services to fulfill their very basic needs and the lack of them generally taken for granted. Hurons, Mohawks, Apaches, Cherokees, Sioux, Iroquois,Inuits, Veddhas, Adivasis, Dalits, Maoris,Korris, Australian Aboriginal people, Murris, and Noongars are just the names of some of the oppressed native tribes, rich in their culture and civilization and more ancient and a whole host of other oppressed peoples. Their ways of life and values have been replaced by powers that claimed to have done so in the name of civilization. Their social and economic conditions have progressively deteriorated due to increasing impoverishment, exploitation and marginalization leading to their economic and social isolation. Devoid of education, good health and decreasing life expectancy their children are fast becoming the underclass of the underprivileged.

There are hardly words in any language be it "civilized" or "tribal" to describe the miseries that these peoples have to endure in their oppression.

Their voices are unheard. The world media are controlled largely by conglomerates that control public opinion and influence it. A medium that is free of control by vested interests is a rare phenomenon.

It is in this context that some free lance amateur journalists and professional academics have banded
together to undertake the ambitious task of making a dent through the print media by educating and informing the rest of the world who have little or no knowledge of the voiceless other half around the world. The journal is also intended to provide a forum for these people to freely express their views.

Millions of such people living in metropolitan areas, such as Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Sydney, and New Delhi having been disoriented no longer possess the knowledge of survival skills once possessed by their ancestors, lack the skills to gain access to goods and services in their new urban habitats.

As a result of questions arising as to how we could be of assistance to these people we have decided to dedicate our time and energies to a publication that will focus on these Aboriginal people and othervoiceless people around the world. This publication is not intended to pursue a particular ideology or to be a critique of governments, institutions or any group. The Voice of Voiceless journal has no affiliation to any group or organization and not motivated by any political consideration. The prime objective is to be a catalyst to sensitize the rest of the world by drawing their attention to the problems and injustices. In other words we want to have those distant and voiceless voices heard.

We invite you to contribute articles and papers and participate in other possible ways, even by way of financial support, in making this journal a success.