CHALLENGE: CAN WE MAKE HUMAN RIGHTS MORE RELEVANT IN THE WORLD TODAY?

Nowadays I think that we can't make human rights more relevant because our world is now so advanced that people don't care of it. A lot of time ago I think that human rights were more respected because nobody was influenced by anybody. Almost everybody only take care of him and his family and eveybody respected it. Now poeple is influenced by many things like the television, the internet etc which make us not see that some things that we are doing now are not logical. Maybe in some years people will understand that doing wars and paying thousands to people who play football is completely stupid.

FORMAL LETTER

Mr Rajoy

I wanted to talk you about the 23 article of human rights. I think that this article is not being respected nowadays because with the crisis there are many poor people who is unemployed so they don’t earn money and apart from this fact there are many others which make that people’s life awful.

Nevertheless I think that this only has happened now. When there wasn’t the crisis I think that everybody respected this article, but not now. There are many places in the world where people work a lot, more than 8 hours, and their boss pay them almost nothing. Meanwhile there are people who work 3 or 2 hours a day and earn a lot of money.

I also don’t understand why there are people like footballers earn such an amount of money, when there are a lot of people who don’t have almost even to eat.

Nothing else Mr Rajoy, please try to do something because not only this article is not being respect.

Your sincerely,

Homa.

CAMEROON: RIGHTS ABUSES IN "HOMOSEXUALITY" PROSECUTIONS

Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world, four human rights organizations said in a report released today. The organizations – Alternatives-Cameroun, Association for the Defense of Gays and Lesbians (ADEFHO), the Cameroonian Foundation for AIDS (CAMFAIDS), and Human Rights Watch – found that at least 28 people have been prosecuted for same-sex conduct in Cameroon since 2010. Most cases are marked by grave human rights violations, including torture, forced confessions, denial of access to legal counsel, and discriminatory treatment by law enforcement and judicial officials.

The 55-page report, “Guilty by Association: Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Cameroon’s Anti-Homosexuality Law,” presents 10 case studies of arrests and prosecutions under article 347 bis of Cameroon’s penal code, which punishes “sexual relations between persons of the same sex” with up to five years in prison. The report found that most people charged with homosexuality are convicted based on little or no evidence. The report includes numerous cases in which the law against homosexual conduct was used for settling scores, showing how the law is easily subject to abuse. Dozens of Cameroonians do jail time solely because they are suspected of being gay or lesbian, the groups found.

“It’s regrettable that our country stands out as one of the few countries in the world that regularly prosecutes people for same-sex conduct,” said Dominique Menoga, executive director at CAMFAIDS, a Yaoundé-based organization. “Cameroon’s government says it’s committed to respecting human rights, but its actions, when it comes to sexual and gender minorities, suggest exactly the opposite.”

I think that that things only happen in poor contries because there people don't respect at all human rights. In my country I think that it would never happen because everything is very different. In Cameroon now it's happening that people are being prosecuted for same-sex conduct.

I think that we can't do anything for changing some things and for forcing them to obey some rights. People  from there are the only persons who can change this.

HUMAN RIGHTS

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are the equal and unalianable rights which everybody has. Each person has the right to freedom, justice and peace in the world. That human rights are protected by the law. The objective of each right is to promote that everyone has rights that has to be respected. 

2. Why there were created?

Human rights were created to preserve the natural rights.

3. How many human rights are there?

There are thirty human rights.

4. Which human right were you not familiar with?

I wasn't familiar with the article 6 which says: "Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law". I think that this is not being respected, because in some parts in the world people don't respect it. I also think that it is only respected in Europe and in rich countries.