Human rights

"ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE BORN FREE AND EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHT". These are words from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

While it is still hearing the echoes of the Human Rights Day, last 10th December, 2009, I would like remember the people in this picture. They are Spanish aid workers whose names are: Albert Vilalta, Alicia Gámez and Roque Pascual.

They were kidnapped by the terrorist group Al Qaeda last November in Mauritania.

They are victoms, as other people in the world, suffering abductions by intolerant bands that violate human rights and don´t know what the word FREEDOM can mean.

Let´s ask goverments everything that could stop this situation.

We only can report this happenning and wait for a happy end. Cross our fingers!

This woman is Lubna Hussein. She is a Sudanese female journalist who was condemned to face 40 lashes due to the fact that she wore a pair or trousers in public. This is considerared a violation of Islamic laws in her country. After conmutating this pusnishment, this brave woman was sent to prison at the end.

Now she is a symbol. She is a significant woman who was able to say to Sudanese authorities that that was unfair.

Lubna Hussein is now in Spain, where she is receiving Press Association recognition. In fact, the Asociación de la Prensa de Cádiz, in Andalucia, does the honor to be with this woman today in a special celebration. If you want more information, look it up on the Internet today, 9 December, in this electronic address: www.prensacadiz.org

You can see the ceremony at 20:00, in the evening.

For a fairer world

After thinking of the WORLD AIDS DAY, I keep in my mind some figures disseminated by Doctors without Borders. They are based on a report made by World Health Organization:

2.100.000 children under the age of 15 need antiretroviral treatments. 430.000 children are born infected with the virus.

33 million people are living with HIV/ AIDS worlwide. The majority of them in Sub-Shararan Africa.

The worse: The access to antiretroviral therapies is very difficult here. The pharmaceutical industry seems not to help in this respect. Is is fair? Let´s go to remind our goverments: "health is a right for eveybody". All people, without exception, have to have the possibility to be cured if necessary.

Learning with women

I would like to pay tribute to significant women who are fighting in order to achieve a better society, specially I´d like to do that this week when many people demanded a fair world for every woman and demanded the elimination of violence against women.

The woman is this picture, on the left, is FATIMA MERNISSI. She is a Moroccan feminist writer. She was able to tell us a part of her life in a book called DREAMS OF TRESPASS: TALES OF A HAREM GIRLHOOOD. This is a memoir by herself. She described her youth in a Moroccan harem during 1940´s. Fortunately now, her situation is very different. She always was a brave woman; she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in 2003.

The picture on the right corresponds with AMINATA DRAMANE TRAORÉ.

She is a Malian politician and, we can say, an political activist. She always looked for making better the poor communities. Her voice was heard in United Nations and was the founder of several movements to improve conditions in Africa.

Both women won everyone´s respect suffering and working for a better world, for a society where women had rights and were respectable persons as men.

But we can remember other courageous women: the Kenyan WANGARI MAATHAI who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Or the Colombian LIBIA GRUESO CASTELBLANCO who was awarded the Goldman Prize, and many more women.

To conclude, we can say that they are women who gave and is giving the best of themselves to make a best worl with the same oportunities for male and female. We should support them.

Women for changing the worl. We have a lot expositions these days in many countries to remind us that all of us should fight for a better society, without violence, without inequality.....

AGAINST VIOLENCE

Her name is SURAYA PAKZAD. Her country is Afghanistan. She is a very important symbol today when we remember the victoms of violence.

Suraya is fighting to achieve a better society in her country. She is in pursuit of a society with rights for women and she is working in this respect since Tabilan left the goverment.

She is threatened with death but she is not afraid.

Let´s go to support her.

Our world needs people like her to eliminate the violence against women.

This is our little tribute to a significant woman as Suraya.

Finishing ...

We are finishing the workshop and I would like to show you the classroom again with a very shor video. Some people did the homework successfully; other people is finishing...
But we could put the final point with the title of a classical book written by Dickens:
GREAT EXPECTATIONS. I think that this expression summarize this workshop!
I would like to thank the organization for that.

My first video in Leeds

This is other work finished in this woorkshop

Completing our instruction

It is Friday.
As usual, during this week, we are in the classroom. Everybody is working hard because all of them want to show their learning in a right way. All in this workshop is very useful. However, for us, it is somehow difficult due to the innovative items (how to share documents on line, how to make a film, how to put effects in it, etc. They are unfamiliar technologies for many people. That is why for participants in this workshop, to do things like these is very satisfied despite the the fact they are making lots of things not perfect. But the possibility to do that is, perhaps, the best.
I will show you a film made for us.

Discovering Leeds togheter

Hello my friends!

New day in Leeds.

We are discovering a lot of things about England, its people, its traditions, its culture,..

But the most important thing is, perhaps, to know people from different nationalities and discover their culture,too. You will find more pictures about us in this blog.

History and Culture in Leeds

These are two beautiful pictures taken while walking in Leeds.
Places like the Market or the Art Gallery are examples of keeping historical settings. Apart from that, you can enjoy your visit as a learner, a student or a tourist, because you can search many different nuances of this marvel country. You can buy some items in the market or have a delicious cup of tea or coffee in the "Tiled Hall". Moreover, you can take pleasure observing the English people in their daily life.

Step by step

Hello everybody!
I'd like to share my feelings from UK, where I am participating in an very interesting workshop related to technologies. I'll show you some pictures about events celebrated yerterday in Bradford.

Now I'll show you some images more about Bradford and its interesting society