But all this has changed over the course of the years, and only left us one more story of violence, a violence that seems never ending and Colombian society which got used, but if you have to say is that after the abduction of the military for more than 15 years in the jungle rot, waiting for more than a decade, has an agreement or negotiation, or are not expected not too long, I think is the longest sentence for any crime you can know, but the prison would be better, it would have more comfortable and could see your family at each visit, but they only live in the jungle chained to a tree, like animals, living in the worst conditions, without food, health, some will be free to dream and see their families again, but that for many of them it was not possible and many have died in captivity, hoping someday to be released.

But if you have achieved something besides the usual speeches and in Colombia, there are a lot of armed groups to fight the guerrillas as well as hundreds of political parties is no longer see the soldier, or police as the enemy the people, that he had a gun in his possession and the law into their hand and committed atrocities, today there are hundreds of justifying their fight, kill kill whole villages whole families, orphaned children left without until We have not killed his parents in their own eyes, that this war without mercy does not end and continues to have children of war.

We are all children of a conflict that has not improved but worsened the social condition of thousands of Colombians who had to leave their land and leave only with the clothes, to go do some of that new class called displaced, a conflict that if I can expropriate the land, and generate wealth but only those who can pay for your monitor and you can pay to kill others and have more land.

During this time we have seen the news have the best novel, with the respect that many of the hostages they deserve, but it was the best novel in ratings, but selling not only entertainment, but if the pain of others, that feeling that when these outside and free, without the shackles of abduction can not imagine the horrors of war, and why not respect the dignity of people, because the world allows prisoners of war are protected life, and only see Nazi period films, and think as it could be possible, as could happen for so many years, and nobody did anything.

We always hope the story and see them off, hope to see with his family, then change the channel with a sigh, but nothing more. But many still being held hostage until another chapter begins and is the front-page news, without having an end. But how much longer I take it.

Looking at the comments people are always the division of opinion between the government should negotiate and not redeemed, if you were in the jungle with them beyond would think so, or my question why those who have been released, only decided to continue with their lives and do nothing for their classmates who were there, return to freedom. until when? Until when? They live in Colombia with the idea of ​​the government does not act, it does nothing, when the people who one day felt it was his guerrilla army of liberation, act and demand that violence must end that although we have no weapons and hundreds of armed groups, are more and have ideas and want a new country, that that one day get that poverty is not an incurable disease and work together to get something better.

The slain officer notebook to let her daughter

“As a tribute of love I’ll hopefully keep this book as a treasure of love that makes you remember every time you see your father distant and diffuse, confined to a jungle serving a whim that men invented but not yet distance and time can make me forget the little angel of love begotten. “

That first paragraph on page 91 Viviana Duarte helped him to meet his father, who was fired after 2 years and never seen alive again. He had to settle for survival tests in which he always saw a being without libertad.Hoy, the object came in a package with everything that one of the world’s oldest abducted saved as their treasure, through letters of love, portraits and a chess

He was one of the 4 officers who were killed by shots in the head, by the guerrillas to be near the army. They were killed in captivity after waiting many years for his release.

Against this background it is outrageous that men’s ongoing violence against women and children is not even mentioned in the prime minister’s “tough on crime” bill.

It’s a month of reflection; a month for all of us to consider the effects of gender-based violence for women in our society, for their children, loved ones, and co-workers, and, indeed, for our community.

Intimate partner abuse is not about love or anger or the result of alcohol or drugs: it is about power and about controlling the other partner.

And unfortunately, it’s tragically common.

Whether we have proof or not, most of us know a woman or child in our circle of family, friends, or co-workers who we suspect is being abused.

No one is immune or protected. Gender-based violence affects women of all ages, socioeconomic status, educational level, cultural background and race.

this story is the same a hundred of the same pattern

This subject hits close to home, lived it, endured it and survived it. Thinking it was all my fault, thought it was the way it was supposed to be. Thought others lived the same.

But years later, the recorder still goes off in my head, when someone rises there arm or hand too quickly, I still react by ducking. Loud noises remind me of gunshots and set me on edge. Yelling and screaming, do amazing things to me. Touching my neck even though you’re playing, remembering getting choked till I couldn’t breathe.

This man damaged my life, mentally and physically abused me, he manipulated me, wanted me to be who he wanted me to be, not allowing me to be me. Not to wear make-up, not to have friends, not to go anywhere, timed when I did, he knew how long it took to go to the store, get his beer and be back, don’t be late he would say, you know what will happen, he didn’t want me to have a life accept him and my children.

It has taken me years to quit looking over my shoulder, and not to look at the time to make sure I was getting home on time.

Pregnant with his son, which claimed at birth not to be his, then he raped me and I was pregnant again with my third child he wanted me to abort the baby I flat out refused, and he had nothing to say about the baby the whole nine months I was pregnant, being pregnant didn’t stop him from being a abuser. When my baby came home she was suddenly his pride and joy, go figure.

This is what really helped me decide to move to another state and taking the children, left in the middle of the night with my mom and dad would came to get us. Thinking the mental abuse was over, he couldn’t haunt me, he would be so far away.

Life took some time to get use too, looking over my shoulder, worrying about the children, at school, worried all the time.

It is a story that has deeply unsettled millions in China, posing troubling questions about whether three decades of headlong economic development has left nothing but a moral vacuum in its wake.

It begins last Thursday when a two-year-old girl totters into a narrow lane in a wholesale market in the thriving industrial city of Foshan in Guangdong Province and is hit by a small, white van. The driver pauses, and then pulls away, crushing the child for a second time under his rear wheels.

It is not the accident itself, but what happens next — or rather doesn’t happen – that has left millions of ordinary Chinese wondering where their country is heading.

One by one, no fewer than 18 passers-by are seen on closed circuit television ignoring the girl as she lies, clearly visible in the road, hemorrhaging into the gutter. Not a single one of them stops to help.
The first is a young man in a white T-shirt and trainers. He walks on past the prone form of girl who is by now bleeding profusely, without a second glance.

Next comes a cyclist who wobbles slightly to avoid the dying child and then pedals on, turning his head back momentarily, as if to check he really did see a child dying in the street.
As the pool of blood spreads, a third pedestrian comes by, clearly sees the bleeding girl, but steps out into the small lane to give her a wide berth.

Many viewers reacted with dismay, citing the incident as further evidence that China had become a “world without morals”.

“Everyone is praising the rubbish-collecting granny for helping, but isn’t it normal to help someone who is wounded or dying?”, asked Johnny Yao on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, “This just shows how abnormal is the moral situation in this society! The sad Chinese, poor China are we even rescuable?”

Others blamed China’s compensation culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation.
“They didn’t ignore the girl, they just didn’t dare help her,” said one comment among many that said that Chinese law had helped create a fear of intervening.

When do we say we are human or being human? May be it is tough to answer that in one sentence. But if you were to ask when are we being inhuman? people will give answers citing recent examples. That is the tragedy of our world. It is ironic that we remember examples of inhumanity than humanity in a world over populated by humans.

“It has something to do with what we call a diffusion of responsibility. The more people who are available, the less responsibility each individual seems to take for providing help to an individual in distress,” said Gaies.

Such theoretical psychological constructs are of course little consolation to little Wang, or her shattered parents, as she battles for her life. Yet, the two-year-old girl who has caused a country of 1.3 billion people to pause and reset their moral compass has in a larger sense attained immortality.

“Freedom to establish our own behavior in a sphere where the choice is imposed by material circumstances, and the responsibility for building your own life according to conscience, are the only spheres in which moral feelings can develop, and moral values are replicated every day by free will.”

Bullying is a widespread and serious problem that can happen anywhere. It is not a phase children have to go through, it is not “just messing around”, and it is not something to grow out of. Bullying can cause serious and lasting harm.

Although definitions of bullying vary, most agree that bullying involves:

•Imbalance of Power: people who bully use their power to control or harm and the people being bullied may have a hard time defending themselves
•Intent to Cause Harm: actions done by accident are not bullying; the person bullying has a goal to cause harm
•Repetition: incidents of bullying happen to the same the person over and over by the same person or group

Everyone can help prevent and stop bullying. Adults have the responsibility to protect and be a role model for kids, teens, and young adults.

No matter who you are or who you represent, you can influence lives and maybe even save a life.

Everyone needs to be aware not only about the warning signs and effects of bullying, but also about the ways to intervene and support both the person being bullied and the one bullying others.

Bullying is often a sign of other serious antisocial violent behavior. Bullies are more likely to be underachievers in school, engage in criminal activities as adults, and become abusive spouses. Putting a stop to this early can prevent the potential violence he or she may partake in down the line.

Parents, educators and other adults should take bullying and social aggression seriously. While some degree of teasing is common among children, bullying often gets out of hand and should not be tolerated. Children that experience bullying might develop anxiety and depression and might skip school to avoid bullies. A child that bullies others might think his behavior is acceptable and as he gets older, engage in more serious aggressive behavior.

Teach children appropriate anger management, stress management and communication skills. Education in these areas should begin at a young age. Some children master these skills easily, while others need extra help.

Teach children how to respond if someone bullies them. Children should attempt to ignore the behavior. If that doesn’t work, they can tell the bully to stop. They should not call the bully names or engage in a physical altercation. They should walk away from a confrontation and seek help from an adult.

Intervene if you see a child bullying another child. Tell the bully it is not acceptable to bully other children. Redirect the bully into more a more appropriate activity. Provide comfort as necessary to the children that were victims of bullying.

Encourage children to develop friendships with other children because children that hang out with a group of friends are less likely to be bullied by others. Some children possess better social skills than others. Some children might need training in social skills so they can make friends more easily.

Encourage schools to develop and implement an anti-bullying program. The program should include training for all school staff on how to address bullying and education for students about how to respond to bullying. Schools should provide plenty of supervision for children during times bullying occurs the most, such as lunchtime, recess, in the bathrooms and on the school bus.

American Work-Life Balance
■According to the Center for American Progress on the topic of work and family life balance, “in 1960, only 20 percent of mothers worked. Today, 70 percent of American children live in households where all adults are employed.” I don’t care who stays home and who works in terms of gender (work opportunity equality for all – it’s a family choice). Either way, when all adults are working (single or with a partner), that’s a huge hit to the American family and free-time in the American household.

■The U.S. is the ONLY country in the Americas without a national paid parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe and over 20 weeks in Europe.

■Zero industrialized nations are without a mandatory option for new parents to take parental leave. That is, except for the United States.

American Average Work Hours:
■At least 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week; the U.S. does not.

■In the U.S., 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week.

■According to the ILO, “Americans work 137 more hours per year than Japanese workers, 260 more hours per year than British workers, and 499 more hours per year than French workers.”

■Using data by the U.S. BLS, the average productivity per American worker has increased 400% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should only take one-quarter the work hours, or 11 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (or our standard of living should be 4 times higher). Is that the case? Obviously not. Someone is profiting, it’s just not the average American worker.

■There is not a federal law requiring paid sick days in the United States.
■The U.S. remains the only industrialized country in the world that has no legally mandated annual leave.

Not only does less vacation time mean we have less time to develop our most critical and lasting relationships with family members and friends, but our physical health is in jeopardy when we refuse to unchain ourselves from the cubicle. Vacations cut down on stress, which any medical expert will tell you is at the center of so many of America’s most pernicious health crises. Two researchers at the State University of New York at Oswego showed that an annual vacation can cut the risk of death from heart disease in women by 50 percent and in men by 32 percent. Taking time out, exploring new horizons, getting away from your desk and moving around, reconnecting with close friends and family are all safeguards against burnout and depression. But this kind of rejuvenation takes time—two weeks, most studies indicate. The average vacation in the United States is now only a long weekend, which just isn’t long enough.

What we All Need to Remember

What we all need to remind ourselves is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

■It’s OK to ask to move to fewer hours at work.
■It’s OK to take a week-long vacation if we need to.
■It’s OK to ask to work from home.
■It’s OK to take a month of unpaid leave while you raise a child.
■It’s OK… you get the idea.

“How bizarre is that?” the Fox News correspondent exclaimed Wednesday. “Confusing reality with a reality show? But you can’t make it into something cosmic. To inflate it to the decline and fall of the Roman empire, I don’t buy that.”

But the boundaries between illusion and reality, journalism and advocacy, fair trial and free press, all seemed elusive Wednesday as they were battered by conflicting waves of rage in the wake of Anthony’s acquittal on the charge of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

As talk shows, Twitter feeds and Facebook pages erupted with rants against a verdict that many Americans considered shockingly wrong — Twitter comments denouncing the jury outnumbered those praising it by 64 to 1, according to the digital bean-counting company NM Incite — a countervailing wave of complaints that media coverage distorted the trial also took hold.

Anthony is scheduled for sentencing Thursday on four misdemeanor convictions for lying to police, which likely will only feed the growing storm of media criticism.

It came most intensely, and least surprisingly, from Anthony’s defense team.

A Florida Bar complaint has been filed against one of Casey Anthony’s attorneys for making an obscene gesture at reporters and spectators after Anthony’s acquittal on murder charges.

While celebrating the jury’s verdict Tuesday at an Orlando restaurant, attorney Cheney Mason gestured with his middle finger toward people gathered outside. An Associated Press photographer snapped a picture of the gesture.

But Mason’s critique was echoed, in only slightly less pungent terms, through the legal and journalistic communities. Many there complained that some television news shows built their ratings up by taking an openly prosecutorial stance against Anthony, leading to public expectations that a conviction was a slam-dunk certainty

“The way TV has handled this is an embarrassment,” said Howard Kurtz, host of CNN’s media-criticism show Reliable Sources. “The sheer volume of coverage for stories that are basically local tragedies is impossible to defend. Toss in a tone of sensationalism, legal pundits who want to be the next Judge Judy, and a rush to judgment that belies the inevitable nuances of a criminal case, and you have the Casey Anthony story. She was convicted on the air long before the courtroom jury took a vote.”

The most pointed criticism was aimed at HLN’s Nancy Grace, a former prosecutor whose nightly attacks on the woman she scornfully referred to as Tot Mom almost single-handedly inflated the Anthony case from a routine local murder into a national obsession. Grace made no attempt to hide her rage at Anthony’s acquittal. “Tot Mom’s lies seem to have worked,” she exclaimed moments after the jury announced its verdict. “The devil is dancing tonight.”

Toobin believes that television should cover trials more, not less, as a sort of running civics lesson. So does lead CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin, a New York defense attorney who has also worked as a federal prosecutor. She believes the anger over the Anthony verdict resulted not because TV hosts misinformed viewers but because they got to see the evidence for themselves.

“There were cameras in the courtroom, and they showed a very competent prosecution team, a very competent defense team, and a very competent judge,” she argued. “You can say people were fooled, but I give them more credit than that. I think people watched — we know they watched, because of the ratings — and they made their own decisions.”

In any event, cautioned former Miami federal prosecutor Kendall Coffey, it’s nothing new for Americans to treat murder trials as entertainment.

In 2009, deportations totaled 389,834 and the goal for 2011 is 404,000.

ICE broadened the Secure Communities program, a biometric technology effort that compares the fingerprints of people being held in local jails with those in ICE and FBI databases.

According to ICE spokesperson Barbara Gonzalez, during 2010 about 90,937 people were arrested on the federal level for immigration violations after being identified by Secure Communities and deportation proceedings have been begun against 49,739 of them.

Of that latter group, 11,493 are being deported for committing major Level 1 crimes, another 19,271 for Level 2 crimes such as drug trafficking, and another 5,275 for Level 3 infractions including traffic violations.

The rest – 13,700 – were acquitted of the criminal charges against them in court but their immigration cases remain pending because they were found to be in the country without the proper documents.

“The goal of Secure Communities is for it to install the system in the country’s more than 3,000 jails by (the end of) 2013” said Gonzalez.

In the two years that the measure has been in effect – and according to a report by the Immigration Policy Center it lacks the proper supervision and a complaint procedure and it spurs racial profiling against immigrants – 69,905 foreigners have been identified as being in the country illegally and deported.

“It’s deplorable that under the mandate of President Barack Obama the number of deportations has increased. The expansion of Secure Communities paints a difficult panorama for our community in 2011,” complained Ruben Campillo, North Carolina coordinator of the group Reform Immigration for America.

Campillo said that NC is an example of the abuses that have been committed during the course of the implementation and expansion of programs like Secure Communities and 287g, which mainly identifies immigrants who do not have criminal records.

“It will be of great importance to work closely with the agencies of local public order to ensure that their personnel are trained and to establish an alternative to accepting official identification documents that enable the high number of arrests of immigrants who don’t have driver licenses to be avoided,” the community leader said.

ICE has given no sign of easing up during 2011, and on the contrary, it is threatening next year to be even more severe with immigrants with criminal records and with companies that hire unauthorized labor.

They documented how the number of deportations have escalated to an astounding 387,000 per year under President Obama. That’s more than 1,000 per day and a population the size of Minneapolis or Tulsa every year. Deportations are ripping apart families, destabilizing communities and forcing businesses to close. Add to this the deplorable conditions in which we hold immigration detainees, the brutality with which we apprehend people, and the complete inflexibility of our legal system, and you have a deportation crisis

It is precisely because of such convictions and personal experience that I firmly believe that China’s political progress will not stop, and I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a future free China. For there is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will in the end become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme. I also hope that this sort of progress can be reflected in this trial as I await the impartial ruling of the collegial bench—a ruling that will withstand the test of history.

If I may be permitted to say so, the most fortunate experience of these past twenty years has been the selfless love I have received from my wife, Liu Xia. She could not be present as an observer in court today, but I still want to say to you, my dear, that I firmly believe your love for me will remain the same as it has always been. Throughout all these years that I have lived without freedom, our love was full of bitterness imposed by outside circumstances, but as I savor its aftertaste, it remains boundless. I am serving my sentence in a tangible prison, while you wait in the intangible prison of the heart. Your love is the sunlight that leaps over high walls and penetrates the iron bars of my prison window, stroking every inch of my skin, warming every cell of my body, allowing me to always keep peace, openness, and brightness in my heart, and filling every minute of my time in prison with meaning. My love for you, on the other hand, is so full of remorse and regret that it at times makes me stagger under its weight. I am an insensate stone in the wilderness, whipped by fierce wind and torrential rain, so cold that no one dares touch me. But my love is solid and sharp, capable of piercing through any obstacle. Even if I were crushed into powder, I would still use my ashes to embrace you.

The penalty for adultery under Article 83 of the penal code, called the Law of Hodoud is flogging (100 lashes of the whip) for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders may be punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man involves his burial up to his waist, and for a woman up to her neck (article 102). The law provides that if a person who is to be stoned manages to escape, he or she will be allowed to go free. Since it is easier for a man to escape, this discrimination literally becomes a matter of life and death.

Interestingly, Article 6 (2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Iran has ratified, states: “Sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime.” Offenses for which the Law of Hodoud provides the death penalty do not involve murder or serious bodily harm, constituting the “most serious crimes”.

Article 104 of the Law of Hodoud provides that the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.

The Iranian woman facing death by stoning has expressed surprise over reports that she was lashed after a British newspaper published a picture showing her without a headscarf, a judiciary official who says he met her told Fars news agency on Wednesday.

“She was unaware and surprised by reports of (receiving) lashes after a British newspaper printed a picture which was not hers and had mistakenly mentioned her name under it,” Kazemzadeh said.

Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s son, Sajjad, told a Paris news conference by telephone on Monday that he “heard” his 43-year-old mother received 99 lashes in prison after The Times of London published on August 28 a picture claiming to be of Mohammadi-Ashtiani and showing her hair unveiled.

By law, women in the Islamic republic must be covered from head to foot, with their hair completely veiled.

Kazemzadeh said Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s death sentence had been “suspended on the orders of the head of the judiciary and will not be applied for the moment”, confirming what Iranian officials have been saying since July.

On Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that her stoning sentence remained stayed as a final verdict in her case was still pending.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International said in a statement in London that suspending the sentence was not enough.
“The whole world is aware of my situation because of Mostafaie’s rogue action. I am ready to be present in front of the media and on television any time to defend myself,” Kazemzadeh quoted Mohammadi-Ashtiani as telling him, adding that she had filed a complaint against the lawyer with the judiciary.

Kazemzadeh said the condemned woman, a mother of two, told him that she continued to have weekly meetings with her family and children, Farideh and Sajjad.

Olena Russell was asked to cover up by a B.C. Transit driver on a bus in downtown Victoria more than three weeks ago. B.C. Transit says an apology is in the mail, and drivers have been told that breastfeeding is permitted on buses in accordance with the B.C. Human Rights Code.

But Russell said she’ll pursue a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint process until she feels certain no similar incidents will happen.

Russell was breastfeeding her baby daughter, Kaia, when she got on to the bus, ahead of her husband. The driver told Russell’s husband that she needed to cover up.

In the discussion that followed, the driver said it was at his discretion whether Russell could breastfeed on the bus — something the stay-at-home mom said she knew wasn’t true thanks to her involvement with a breastfeeding and infant nutrition support group through La Leche League of Canada.

“I was really surprised, disappointed. I have two children and three years later, I’ve never had anybody say anything to me,” said Russell, who also has a three-year-old son, Kasian.

After getting off the bus, they walked for a few minutes before getting on a second bus. Russell said she was again breastfeeding, but this time the driver didn’t seem to mind.

The couple began filing a pair of complaints — first a letter to B.C. Transit, then an official complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that Russell said she’ll post Monday.

B.C. Transit spokeswoman Joanna Linsangan said the transit company received Russell’s letter on Wednesday and mailed out an apology Friday, along with a pair of bus passes for the month of August.

B.C. Transit has investigated the incident and issued a letter to all operators reminding them to abide by the Human Rights Code.

The code bars discrimination based on sex, which includes pregnancy and breastfeeding. This means mothers have a legal right to breastfeed in public places and makes asking them to cover up discriminatory, according to a Ministry of the Attorney General publication.