Human Rights

Week 5 Blogging challenge Water For All – Georgia

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Human rights – Free Water For All   

Picture from Wikipedia – Creative Commons  – Girls_carrying_water_in_India.

In certain countries some family’s don’t have water because the countries can’t afford to have clean water. Many family’s get sick and die . Have you ever felt so thirsty that you thought that you would faint? Well some kid’s feel that all day. And you can’t live without water for 3 day’s or you will perish. Some kid’s do have water but they drink bad water. Some kids don’t have water so they drink water with disease

Water is a big part of you it help’s your brain and coordination. In Africa there are about 345 places without water. All the place’s without water there is about 783 REALLY thats a lot. How we can stop this is I think we should start a fundraiser so we can can get enough money for money to dig a well for the places that don’t have water.

 

And what about if you had no water I think you would be happy if you had fresh clean yummy water I mean I would. I think if we work together we can make a difference.

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A Stand For Rights Trying to Stop The Fight- By: Corinna

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Edublogs Challenge- Challenge 5

The girl in the beautiful head dress and yellow skirt is the young brave girl Malala Yousafzai.
The girl in the beautiful head dress and yellow skirt is the young brave girl Malala Yousafzai.

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

Human rights are extremely important when it comes to human beings’ lives. They make the world a better place to live and make life better. Without human rights, the world would have even more chaos than it does now. A very important human right is article 26 “everyone has the right to education.” Every child and adult deserves to have education. Many places around the world disobey the human right and don’t let people have proper education. I think that is very wrong and should be stopped because education for all is a human right.

 

Many places in the world follow the human right, while other places sadly don’t. In Pakistan, an amazing 16 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai stood up for girls rights to education. At the age of 13, she started standing up for girls who didn’t get education. During her protests she got shot in the head while she was at the Taliban. Luckily, she survived and then unfortunately went into a coma in which thankfully she came out of. Once she “woke-up” she wrote a book called “I Am Malala” talking about her story. She has become very, very inspirational and popular for MANY people. I think she is an amazing girl who should continue fighting for her rights and everyone else’s. I hope that her courage and outgoingness can rub off on everyone else in the world to make it a better, happier place.

 

In conclusion, all human rights are important. People in the U.S.A and many other places who follow The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, almost take human rights for granted. Without them, those places would be in terrible shape like Pakistan and other places in the Middle East. Luckily women, men, and children in the countries that completely follow the declaration of human rights, don’t have to suffer and don’t have as much unfairness like in the other countries. I am glad that Malala Yousafzai had enough courage to speak up and act so boldly. I think that everyone having the right to education is very important, and I hope that the countries who don’t follow article 26, will soon follow it for fairness.

 

Education Is Important-Diego

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I personally feel that education as a human right for children in the US is really important for  my sister and me. We go to Poughkeepsie Day School because it’s the greatest school ever and I love it. I would be really upset if I didn’t have the right to go and couldn’t go, but back on the subject. Education is important for everyone not just me because it gives the children the right to go to school and learn skills that they need in life. After all, we are the next generation.

 Unicef is an organization that is helping kids all around the world to have a better life   any way they can, such as having an education. I’ve looked into some of the ways they are helping and it’s really amazing how they are helping kids and their schools. For example, in Africa they are increasing enrollment among girls, orphans and children in extreme poverty. It’s really cool and you should check them out as they’re awesome. When you find out something else on how they’re helping kids, comment below. I’d love to hear some of the new things they’re doing.

Education isn’t just about school, it’s leaning, and don’t learn everything in school: you learn to read, write, work a computer, history, grammar, math, science….etc but in my opinion thats not all a kid needs to learn they need to: follow their dreams, to be free (unless you’re in jail) to be good,to help, the list goes on and on. So education is not everything you learn in school it’s also those little lessons you learn every day, so when you learn something outside of school it shouldn’t be any less important to you.

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Edublogs Challenge #5: Human Rights ~ Bullying

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Bullying is a very serious problem around the world. Bullying is when one person (or many people) do something to be mean to a particular person or group. There are many different forms of bullying: Cyber bullying, insulting someone, tormenting someone, teasing, etc. Some people get bullied so bad that they commit suicide (there have been millions of suicides because of bullying). Racism also plays a pretty big role in bullying. For example, someone may get bullied just because they’re black or because they’re Asian. Another common victim of bullies are small/skinny people or “nerds.” The main reason these types of people are bullied is because of their size.

 

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Bullies think because these people are small, they’re easy targets. Bullies will also bully someone out of insecurity. Basically, the bully will do anything they can to make a person feel bad. These are just acts of desperation by the bully. They want so bad to be better than another person that they try everything possible to make themselves feel like they’re better than this person/victim. Sometimes people will pick on someone

 

Nobody, black, white, Asian, or Latino, should be bullied. Every human has the right to be treated the right way.

 

This seems to be a strange coincidence, but October (this month) happens to be Bullying prevention month. To learn more about bullying and help to stop it visit this link: http://tinyurl.com/45crwl7

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Street Children in New Delhi, India – Nachman

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LOST CHILDHOOD

 I sit back in my seat, enjoying the refreshing air conditioning as the car crawls through the bustling traffic of New Delhi. I roll down the window and gaze out at the landscape moving by as the wind ruffles my hair, before I roll it back up again. As the red light looms up ahead, the car slows to a stop, settling down amidst the other honking vehicles, all maneuvering for a more advanced spot in the frenzy. I start to tell my grandmother about my art with technology class in school when I hear a slow, hopeful knock. I turn, and see a thin, young face with hopeful eyes, pressed against the window. He cups his hand and holds them out, then moves it towards his mouth to ask for something to eat. On the side of the road, I can see another young man lounging, watching greedily, anticipation in his eyes. I need to give the boy something, but what? “We can’t give him money,” my grandmother tells me, “because that man will snatch it from him.” I rummage through my mother’s purse and finally lay eyes on a Kit -Kat. I roll down the window, and place the candy in the boy’s cupped hands. As the car pulls away, I look back, and see the boy jogging to the side of the road. He furtively glances over to see whether the man is watching, and when he is sure that he is not, he splits the wrapper, and bites into the candy. At the next stop light, a girl knocks on the window, ‘le, lo, le, lo … me khana khaoengee’ she chants. My mother tells me that this means, “take it, take it, I’ll eat some food.” She looks as if she should be going to 3rd grade, and her face is grimy, her hair matted. She too has the spark of hope in her eyes. I try to look down, and think about other things, for I have nothing to give her. That night, even though my stomach is full, and my body tired, I can’t quite sleep.

This picture is from Lost Childhood

As I lay awake in bed I wonder: who are these children, why are they on the streets, breathing in the fumes, and risking their lives among the cars, and why should somebody forceably take things from them? These, my mother tells me are, the street children.

 UNICEF says that street children is a term for boys and girls under the age of eighteen for whom the streets are both their home, and the place where they earn money to live. They live either on their own, or with some adults, and are not  protected or supervised by adults.

 According to “Surviving the Streets,’ a report  by the Institute for Human Development and Save the Children, there were 50,923 street children below 18 in Delhi in 2010. That’s almost .4 % of the total population, and nearly 1 % of children below 18 in Delhi. 36.6 % of the street children are part of street families, while 29.05 of the children work on the the streets. About 2 out of three street children are 7-14 years old, while 23 % are 15-18 years old. Out of all of the street children 50.5 % are illiterate, 23 have a non-formal education, and 23 % have a formal education (13 % up to only pre primary, 4 % to primary, and only 2.4 % up to middle school).

One fifth of the street children pick rags for a living, while 15.8 % are involved in street vending. Close behind, 15 % beg, 12.9 % work in roadside stalls, and 6.24 % work for hotels. A few street children (1.22 %) work in factories. Street children work for many reasons – mainly in order to survive. 1/3 of the street children (34 %) are on the street due to poverty and hunger. Another 30 % are on the street in hope of finding a job. 17.7 % have come by themselves, while 12.6 % are sent by their parents. 9 % run away from home, either to escape from abuse, or because they have been  kidnapped, or orphaned.

 Living conditions for street children are very poor. 39 % sleep in slums, while 46 % sleep in open and/or public places. Only 4 % of street children sleep in shelters provided by the government, non-government organizations, or individuals. The majority of the street children (63 %), stay with family, while something like 14 % stay with friends. 4 % stay with people who employ them, and another 11 % sleep alone. Almost 92% know about their families and where they come from. About 70% have families in Delhi that they know about. Just 30% of the children say that their families are outside of Delhi. 88.5% of the children who leave home actually still keep in touch with their family, while 10% have no contact at all.

87% of street children are involved in some kind of work to earn money. The average work hours of street children are 6.6 hours a day, 6 days a week. The average monthly earnings of a street child is Rs. 2240. That’s just $36 (US) dollars a month. Out of this, 45.1% of street children give 49% of their earnings to parents. 3.5% of street children gave that money to supervisors, who are similar to gang leaders, while 0.4% of children give 49% of their earnings to police. Street children usually spend 37.4% of their earnings on food. Also, almost 22% of street children use drugs, mostly tobacco and pan masala (helps to suppress hunger.) 50% of street children are daily consumers, and many more use it weekly and monthly.

Save the Children

The list of human rights violations of these children is far too numerous to to list. If one followed The Universal Declaration of Human Rights then it is clear that these children:

1. Do not have the right to life, liberty, and security of person (Article 3)

2. Are forced to give many of their earnings to ‘supervisors’ who give them nothing in return. This violates their right to be free of slavery or servitude. (Article 4)

3. Are often abused and mutilated by supervisors so that they appear more pitiful, when they are sent  out to beg. This supposedly helps the children earn more money, which all goes to the supervisor. This violates their right not to be subject to torture, or ‘inhuman or cruel punishment’. (Article 5)

4.  Have no homes, wear ripped, torn and filthy clothes, have little to eat, and are often sick. This violates the children’s right to food, clothing, housing, medical care, and social services (Article 25)

5. Have not received a proper education. 50.5% of street children are illiterate. This violates the children’s right to  a free education. (Article 26)

 

 Who’s to blame for this travesty, these lost childhoods, and what can we do to help the street children? Although there are many government and non-government organizations devoted to helping these children, I feel that that this system still has much room for improvement. Very few of the children actually receive help from these organizations. I believe that we need to take more action to help these children, to give them food, shelter, medicine, and educations. These children, who are the next generation of Delhi, live on the streets, and it is their right to live well, and to inherit a city where their children will not have to live on the streets. I believe that we must protect these children from abuse, and that any and all abuse should be punished. Hopefully, if the government upholds the rights of these children, and the people of Delhi are willing to help this cause, and protect these children, then these children might be able to have and enjoy a childhood.

 

NOTE: I have deliberately chosen not to include a photograph in this post because I feel that doing so would invade the privacy of the children in the picture. However, I do include a link to several pictures.

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