News: Human Rights violation

Russia/ Georgia: 9th august 2008



The last August 2008, Georgian, Russian and South Ossetian forces committed a lot of violations of the law of war and abig number of human rights. This conflict caused many civilian deaths and injuries and widespread ( widely circulated )destruction on civilian property.
Some attacks by both Georgian and Russian forces, and the South Ossetian forces' campaign of deliberate and systematic destruction of certain ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia. It also describes Russia's failure to ensure ( make safe) public order and safety in areas of Georgia that were under its effective control.

South Ossetia is a breakaway region of Georgia that shares a border and has very close ties with Russia. The armed conflict started on August 7, 2008, and lasted until a ceasefire on August 15, with Georgian forces in retreat and Russian forces occupying South Ossetia and, temporarily, undisputed parts of Georgia. In the week of open conflict, and the many weeks after of rampant violence and insecurity in areas under Russia's effective control, hundreds of civilians were killed, and tens of thousands were displaced. Many of them have not been able to return home.

Both Russian and Georgian forces used cluster munitions and dropped multiple rockets causing civilian deaths and putting more civilians at risk by leaving behind unstable "minefields" of unexploded bomblets. Cluster munitions are banned under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which neither Georgia or Russia has signed.

During this conflict thousand of lives has been destroyed, ethnics and villages has been pillaged. Also great numbers of people to leave their homes for undisputed Georgian territory. But Russia instead to protect civilians, the Russian forces allowed South Ossetian Forces to burn homes and kill, beat, rape and threaten civilians. This kind of attacks are considerate war crimes and they must be prosecuted as a crime against humanity.


So as it's enough clear in this little summary of this news, the main Human right violated are:

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
In this article, it say that nobody has to be subordinate to any superior power. There is no distinction between any kind of differences.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
In this article, we can see that this wright is more then violated in this conflict.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
In this news, most of civilians property has been destroyed by the armed fores.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

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3 dead, 12 slashed in Belgium day care attack

updated 3:57 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2009

In Belgium, a man apparently normal, entered in a nursery where he stubbed two babies and a worker and wound 12 others. The parents of the victims rushed in the hospitals. The efforts of the medical workers had been able to save 10 children and two adults with critically wounded.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28808916/

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Gaza City, 9 Jabuary 2009

Israeli aircraft continued to bomb Gaza overnight. A Security Council resolution called for a ceasefire, access for aid workers and a lasting solution to the conflict.

Overnight, at least 50 air strikes hit Gaza, one attack reportedly killing five Palestinians. Militants fired several rockets into southern Israel. It is estimated 770 Palestinians and 14 Israelis have been killed so far.The children represent the half of the victims of this unjustified war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7820027.stm

Children, who make up more than half of crowded Gaza's 1.4 million people, are the most defenseless victims of the war between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli army has unleashed unprecedented force in its campaign against Hamas militants, who have been taking cover among civilians.

Gaza city

Computers, are they dangerous or useful for us?

Nowadays, the computers are necessary and useful in all the field of life. It's considerate the third big discovering and revolution just after the industrial revolution.

In the moderns societies, it's just impossible to live without this kind of technology like computers, mobiles, cameras... Because it made our life easier. On one hand, we can find in a few seconds all the kind of informations that we want, we can talk with people and see them at the same time and cheaper, because the distance doesn't matter.
Some others can work at home without move and stay closer to their family or children. And then we can also find love virtually or new people all around the world thanks to msn, tchats and forums. Well to sum up, with the computers and Internet we can win time.

But on another hand, this kind of technology can be dangerous for human also if they are addicted to it, the problems that it makes are that we lose the feelings when we used to talk so much by the screen, children spend more time in the video games, locked in virtual world in state to go play out and discover the real world. As we could see in some news, criminal can reach children by tchat and make them believe that they are their friends, ending with kidnappings and paedophilia.
An other negative point that we can added to this list is that the Internet is destroying and ruining the music and cinema industry because we have more facility to obtain them free.

In conclusion, I would say that the computers are indispensable for us nowadays. We can't forget that the Informatica has created a lot of jobs and made our life easier. But if we don't know how to control it we can easily fall in addiction and made us live in a virtual world forgetting the essential of the real life.

Humour it is necessary to survive?

Nietzsche said '' men suffer so profoundly that they needed to invent laughter''. When you read this sentence you trend to agree with it. We have to admit that the humanity suffers sometimes we have our bad moments and one way to return the happiness in our minds is to laugh about whatever, just smile and forget our pain.

It's true that, saying that laugh is necessary to survive seems to be absurd, but not at all, because if somebody doesn't laugh at all he'll probably die earlier than another one who lives his life with a bit of positivism.
Humour is for a lot of people a job, so many comedians works hard to make us laugh. I admire these people, because in their shows they just need to inspire them in the way that people are to make us laugh. So humour it's a critic towards humanity and it foolishness.

Like I've said before humour is a self-criticism that humans invent to try to forget what miserable life they have or how they are. Because some prefer laughing then crying themselves. So it's true that people need humour to survive. because if it didn't exist, life will be boring, then it helps us to make life easier.

Analize of my oral presentation

1- watch your presentation and answer the following questions:
NAME & TOPIC: The sitcomes

Presentation:
-Did you use any resources? Were the recources elegant and attractive?
To do this presentation, we've needed to surch some information on the wed about the origins of the sitcomes, but we basicly used our knowledge on this topic, because both used to watch the sitcomes.

Body lenguage and eye contact:
-Did you look at your audience most of the time? I think that I've done it

-Did you read from your notes? I don't.
-Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? I made a lot of gestures with my arms, it's away to express myself.

Structure:
-Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes we've start by a definition, after the origins in the history and the tipesof stcomes.
-Did you use discourse markers to make your ideas more clear? Yes I do, like '' then, finally, so...''


Content:
-Did you introduce interesting, NEW information to your audience? I think that We've done it , because we've talk about the american old sitcomes, wich were unknown to most of the audiance.
-Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet/books...? we've also look for informations and idees in internet.
-Was your information more superficial or more detailed and original? I don't think that the information was too detailed, we gave a general informations but we specified it when we've talked about the sitcomes exemples.

Language:
-Did you use check your grammar? no
-Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary? yes
-Did you use sentences linkers? maybe
-Did you use fillers?

Pronunciation & Intonation:
-Did you know how to pronunce all your words? Did you ckeck a pronuntiation with a dictionary, a classmate, or a teacher?
I think that I've improve my pronunciation but I had a dificulty to pronounce the word ''ordinary''

-Did you change your tone of voice or use monotone tone all the time? did you speed in a fluis continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I think that Ive used a monoton voice, I've try to talk softly, but it's true that because of stress, I had some difficulties to remember some things.

Self-evaluation:
-You are your teacher! what mark did you get? I think that my partner and I have made a good presentaton because we have pent a good time together and I think that the class felt that too, so I hopt that the tesacher will put us a 9.
2- Now it's time to improve for next presentation. Write down a literal transcription of your presentation.
Check your Language and Structure. Can you correct your mistakes?

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

The story is about two ambitious sisters, Mary ( Scarlett Johanson) and Anne (NathaliePortman), who fight for the heart of a person that they love each other, the king Henry VIII.
Henry VIII, king of England, is hungry because his wife, Catherine of Aragon, is unable to give him a son, he's deprived of a crown prince. Learning that the royal coat frees itself, the Duke de Norfolk and his parent Mr Thomas Boleyn decide to introduce the girl of this last, Ann Boleyn, to the king with the recommendation to entice the sovereign to bring him to her.

During a party of hunt organized in the residence of Boleyn, Ann makes a serious error. Henry VII turns away from her and meets Mary Boleyn, her sister. Although married, the king calls her to the courtyard to entice her. Ann and Mary, become rivals ready for everything to earn favours of the king. History is spelled little by little in the dark halls of the royal residence.
Anne de Boleyn, full of hate and jealousy decide to charm the king while her sister was pregnant, then she convince the king to make her as the Queen of England, thing that will provoc a lot of problems with the Pope, Anne is called witch because she put discord between all her family and into the corts. (Iwon't tell you the end, just discovered it for your own !)

This film is adapted from the eponymous novel (The other Boleyn girl) of Philippa Gregory, history takes root in the meanders of the intrigues of palace to stage the female rivality of both sisters Boleyn. While the figure of Ann is much more obscure than her sister.
This béance of historical reality allows invention to exacerbate the confrontation of true love, like Mary with the king, the love of interest, personified by Ann, manipulative.
To represent these two facets, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman confront one another in actors bright play.