Showing posts with label world wide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world wide. Show all posts

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Facebook: Virtual addiction


Facebook is known as a very useful social tool by everyone in the world. A person with internet access will most likely have a facebook account or at least heard about facebook. I'm sure that at least 90% of teens that have an internet connection will have a facebook account. Facebook is used to keep in touch with people far away, or just with your regular friends. There are pictures, status updates, and many other ways to interact throught the internet. Having access to facebook from basically anywhere has made it possible to check our facebook accounts in a regular basis. We become sucked into the virtual world and begin to need our facebook accouts.

When we need to be connected to facebook to be at ease we know that this "social tool" has become an addiction. No addiction or excess is ever good. Checking too much facebook, and being all the time on facebook is very bad as as doing too much of anyhting. When you basically live through facebook you stop living your real life. There are real life cases of people who have become so sucked into facebook that rehabilitation is a must for this kind of people.

Facebook can get to be very useful and may help you keep in touch and stay connected to your loved ones. But there comes a time when you stop doing it out of need to keep in touch and start doing it out of the need to stalk people. Stalking is one of the issues people are afraid of when it comes to the internet, and the fact that facebook provides a great tool for this kind of privacy violation makes it not so safe. That is why we have to be very careful as to what we upload to this type of public web pages. Private information must not be published just like that, you have to upgrade security measures to avoid being checked by people who would want to do bad. You must be very careful when becoming a facebook user and the fact that many of us are means that we are very exposed to these kind of violations.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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.

We Need an Inmediate Intervention

Nowadays human trafficking with purpose of trafficking or illegal traffic has increased alarmingly. This is due to the problems in economy, the ones many countries face, also because of the lack of implementation of programs to combat it, and of course the huge demands of cheap labor work. Human trafficking is the third most lucrative crime worldwide, next to drug traffic and arms traffic.
This bad situation had contributed for women, kids and youngsters, in vulnerable situations became preys of crimes including sexual and labor exploitation. This gave rise to the phenomenon of human trafficking, which first was called “WHITE TRAFFIKING”.
In the middle 80’s the international community, in search to define the phenomenon of human trafficking, consider insufficient the term white trafficking, that until that days still was used to define the problem, the reason of changing the name was that not only white women where traffic for sexual exploitation, instead kids, youngsters and women from several parts of the world where exploited sexually and labouringly. This is why the term “Human trafficking” started being used, but this term suddenly started to present confusions because not all traffics necessarily involve people.
Trafficking in migrants is given usually in illegal terms, which facilitate the introduction of a person to a country in which he/she was not born or lived in there; with the purpose of obtaining an economical or material benefit.
Trafficking in migrants and of humans are extremely delimited in diverse national legislations characterized as CRIMES!
It was until December of 200, when 147 nations signed the convention of the United Nations against the organized crime and its sub themes like human trafficking. In December of 2003 the Unites Nations started punishing and suppressing the crime.As we can observe human trafficking is a very complex phenomenon, which does not have sexually and labouringly means only. In contrast in this term we can find many crimes some of the most commons are fake adoptions with the purpose to sell kids and organs; labor workers with purpose of forced marriages, and capturing kids to send them to wars.