TEC Suggests measures to curb violence

Tecnológico de Monterrey gave today the statement and suggestion to improve safety in México.

The principal of Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP), Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga said:

"We want both citizens and members of the Army and Navy operate under a reliable legal framework for the good of all. We want the soldiers and sailors involved in security operations and combating organized crime. We want the soldiers and sailors training and working conditions and their families have a broader social protection"

With this we can know that they are wishing that the military works harder and to go back to their traditional functiones to get rid of the insecurity we are living. It is really important that the government focus on this making a state policy against crime explaining or defining how to confront the problems of insecurity, drugs trafficking, weapons, weapons, etc. Don't you think that this has been a problem since years ago? now that something happened and that some other people died, young people, people started to care more about this or to think of how to solve it. It seams that something bad needs to happen so people start thinking about it.... what a shame!! we should be caring always! even if insecurity or crime zone is not near us, we should!

Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga also said:

"The state public safety systems must be better managed and therefore should be evaluated as well as efficiency transparency and accountability."

And i totally agree with this statement. We need safety systems and protocols to be managed in a better way. To be evaluated differently so every problem can be atacked in the right way so this problem is solved.

The suggestion of Tecnologico de Monterrey is to support judicial reform and police to command in the states and to create a national police force.

EU and Russia sign agreement on nuclear disarmament

When i read this new, i found it really interesting because the fact that Barack Obama is fighting for peace, or to make the world more peaceful is something we should be thanking a lot.

Today, April 8, the president of the US, Barack Obama and the president of Russia, Dimitri Medvedev, signed a new agreement a "historical" agreement: treaty START. This treaty has as purpose to reduce or to eliminate the nuclear weapons, which, as we know, can cause great damage in societies.

President Barack Obama thanked Dimitri Medvedev for his grood cooperation on the new commitment to nuclear disarmament. This treaty kind of obligates both parties (Russia & US) to reduce the amount of each of nuclear weapons within the next seven years from 2200 weapons to 1550.

Im not sure if this treaty will work as Barack Obama hopes, but the fact that there is someone that already did something about all this violence in the world, and the fact that people will start to worry more about this is something to be happy about. I hope other countries join this treaty so the world can become peaceful.

http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/08042010/440077.aspx

Feeling superior by making others inferior

“No one can make you feel inferior”- Eleanor Roosevelt
This is a quote that every people should keep in mind. In the world there are people who discriminate or treat bad other people just because they feel superior, and want to have a benefit. Every day this acts or violence increase and it affects our society.

Over two weeks ago, I heard that some people transported drugs to the United States and they make other people (called “mulas”) eat capsules of drugs, and when they arrive make the people release them. I think that this act is really bad and inhuman. Nobody should take advantage of other people because they can hurt them. With this example, first they are doing something bad by making him or her eat it, because it affects the organism, then they are cheating the police, and then when they make the people release them, they also give other substance (which again affects the organism). If they want to transport it like this, why don’t they do it to themselves? Are they being so “generous” by letting other people have this taste? Obviously not! They don’t want to hurt themselves.

Another act that is very common, and now in every city or town or even at schools is presented is: stealing. Why do people do this? Sometimes they don’t need it, but they just do it to hurt others. My question is, do they increase their self-steam by doing this? Maybe they feel powerful... Still, I think that there is no excuse for this act. I think that everyone should respect themselves and obviously others, so you should treat them well. We are all humans, and all of us have feelings!

Violence in Mexico !!!

Our country is having a big and terrible problem with violence. The government is acting against this WAR; but we can’t see results or even a sign of change. Mexico is really having a constant war with this entire people that are killing others, negotiating with drugs and damaging innocent persons only for pleasure.

People is shouting – It’s Over!, but nobody is acting against all this, maybe the security in Mexico has increase, but we can’t even cross the street or walk in a highway because we don’t know who is going to kill us or shoot us with a gun, or maybe violate us. We are so scare about this situation that we are preferring not even to go out of our houses. The only word for this conflict is war. We are really in a civil war were people is practicing activities that every day they are more common.

Now at days it is very common to see drogadicts in the streets, violated people or car accidents. We, adolescents and kids have the world in our hands, we can’t continue our lives like this, we need to make a change, if not the problem is going to grow, and even by standing out your house door you will need a gun to protect of people.

Human Rights Watch

Children, gay and lesbian, women, Asians, Latin, black people, elders, people with disabilities. ALL of them are the vulnerable groups of society, the ones who are often left behind because 'they cannot handle everyday's life'or 'they are diferent from us'. All these fallacies are making people treat them unfairly and these groups are moving away from all the opportunities that you and I have.
But the worst part, is that there are people who treat them truly badly. People who feels superior than them, and they think they are all right. But, how can we stop this?
First of all, we must promote tolerance. At home, at school, at church, at the streets. Everywhere. Teach our children that everyone is equal. That skin color, age, sex, preferences, nationalities, disabilities,and others are not a barrier. We ourselves create those barriers that do not allow us see and make us judge before.

Then, we can create a human right watch culture. What does this mean? Human rights means looking after others. If we know of someone who is being maltreated or someone who maltreats, we must report it. We can help many people.

And finally, change our mind. We live in a very diverse world. We are all different, but that does not mean we have different right. We all have the same right and must respect that.

Violence in Women

Violence affects the lives of millions of women worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational classes. It cuts across cultural and religious barriers, impeding the right of women to participate fully in society.
Violence against women takes a dismaying variety of forms, from domestic abuse and rape to child marriages and female circumcision. All are violations of the most fundamental human rights.
In a statement to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995, the United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, said that violence against women is a universal problem that must be universally condemned. But he said that the problem continues to grow.
The Secretary-General noted that domestic violence alone is on the increase. Studies in 10 countries, he said, have found that between 17 per cent and 38 per cent of women have suffered physical assaults by a partner.
In the Platform for Action, the core document of the Beijing Conference, Governments declared that "violence against women constitutes a violation of basic human rights and is an obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace".

Violence in women has affected in all the countries. I think that Mexico is one of the places where the violence in women has affected more, the women doesn’t know how to defend herself in situations where the men thinks that he has all the control over her and his children. Violence against women has originated that most of the men see the women as an object and not as a person as they are. Sometimes this violence has come to the point the men have even killed the women when they are fighting, but the violence is not only physical it also includes violence with words or more likely to say, emotional.

Violent videogames produce violent behavior

Have you heard? Scientifics have made some Studies that analizes the behavior of people that play violent videogames. Why am i talking about this? As this scientifics say, violent videogames make people have a violent behavior what a lot of times, takes them to comite a crime. According to some people, events like the student that killed other students in a High School (US), or like the one in China, are effects of the violent videogames.

Do violent videogames really change the way people act? I cant really tell...but what i can say is that i do believe that violent videogames change people somehow. I think people can become adicted to videogames and start to get away from society, what takes them to be more sensible to events around the. Maybe they can become more aggressive, as the scientists say. If they do, a lot of events can be explained by this, and if scientists start working more to discover this hypothesis, violent videogames can be prohibited and crime could dicrease.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/vidgameviolence.htm

What About Children?

When we mention the word child, we think about a cute, small and innocent human being that spends his o her time playing, growing and eating. At least that is what we all did were we were little. If this is how a child’s life should be, then why are they exploited, killed or force to fight as a soldier? Sadly, this is the situation of many innocent children around the world. In recent decades, there have been more civilian casualties than before in armed conflicts. And it seems that the percentage keeps on growing. About half of these victims are children.

It is estimated that about 20 million children have been forced to leave their home because of armed conflicts and violation of their human rights. These children are force to live as refugees in other countries and away from their family. They have no one to take care them and are left without protection. A child is a vulnerable human being. They are not independent and are not able of taking care of themselves. More than 2 million children have died as a result of armed conflicts around the world, only in the last decade. This number will keep on increasing if we do not emphasize on the protection of children and their rights. These unprotected children are used to be sold and to be physically or sexually exploited, reports UNICEF. This is just unacceptable; a child does not disserve to suffer like this.

I do not think these people who have decided to hurt children care about the consequences of their acts. We should. These people are destroying lives by stealing the happiest years of the person. All this violence will make these children traumatised adults and full of rage. We do not know what type of person they might be if no one was there to raise them. I think this is going to be a major problem in the future. These that are now children, are going to be the ones generating violence during the future generations. Violence is one of the biggest global issues and here is an option to reduce it in the future. Protecting and educating our children today can lead us to live is a safer world in the future.

Reading about this made me reflect on how lucky we all are. Living with our family, eating three times a day, going to school are things we just that for granted most of the time. These children have neither one of them and cannot do anything about it. I think all of us should feel thankful for the life we have the chance to live.