My say

Pets in Syria

Everyone knows Minimally what is happening in Syria. We care about the children, mothers, grandmothers, fathers... But why no one has thought of dogs? Families abandon them because they can't take them with them. 

So these are totally helpless in the midst of war, without food and drink and no one to protect them and loving them. In Syria the situation is so difficult that people who still resides there eat stray dogs to survive.

Currently there is a web opened which is responsible for raising money to help these animals, which live totally oblivious to what happens around them. You can donate any amount of money to this asociation that is completely a nonprofit organization.

NEWS

Survey Finds Bribery Runs Highest Among Courts in Mideast

A new report announced that nearly a third of the eastern population has had to pay a bribe to access public health. They also announced that the sector receives more bribes is justice.

The watchdog Interviewed Nearly 11,000 people and found That bribery was rampant in Yemen Especially. In the Arabian Peninsula country, 77 percent of Respondents Said They Had to pay a bribe to access public services.

Public anger over government corruption Among Officials, social inequality and the lack of justice and transparency Were catalysts of the 2011 Arab Spring movements That ousted longtime leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

Almost any country is free from corruption in the public sector.

Personal Opinion

Everyone must have the right to health and no one has to take advantage of this most basic need and make it a business. But if there is corruption it's because there are many people who helps to make this possible.

Vocabulary

• Bribe
• Watchdog

TASK: HUMAN RIGHTS

• WRITE A POST ON YOUR SPACE called HUMAN RIGHTS (3rd term, task)and answer the questions.

1. What are human rights?

Human riths are the rights you have simply because you are human, no matter your religion or your role in life.

2. When and why were they created?

At 539 BC, a man named Cyrus The Great, after winning a battle, decided to free all the slaves and declared the diversity of religions. But human rights were officially created after the Second World War.

3. How many human rights are there?

There are 30 human rights joined in this LIST.

4. Which human right are you going to dig deeper?

I am going to comment the Freedom from slevery in another post of my blog.

TASK

FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY

The freedom of slavery is the most important right from my point of view. I consider it important because no one can own the life of another human, and we all have the right to freedom.

Slavery for me not only includes the most archaic way, but also slaves of the XXI century, the prostitutes. Prostitution is the most "modern" form of slavery and also one of the most demeaning. The most striking thing is that Western people participate in these activities claiming women services with full awareness that these are being exploited.

A human should be able to have power in their own live and to fulfill himself. Must be free and feel valued and listened the same time he/she must be a social man/woman. No one should be ignored and mistreated because a human being is a social being and breaking this condition he/she would be completely annulled.


Watch the VIDEO of the human right you choose.  Make a list of new words you hear, if any. Think of an example where this human right is respected and where it is violated.

Vocabulary

• Crowned: be on top of.

Although slavery seem to be already eradicated, there are still 70 million people enslaved. Human rights must not only be brought to the western countries (where these are not respected at all usually), but also to the poorest countries, because the level of development of a country should not adversely affect its inhabitants. In Ivory Coast, people are brutally enslaved by the mafia to get the famous "blood diamonds".