HUMAN RIGHTS

                                                          HUMAN RIGHTS
                   

                              What are human rights? Human rights can mean many things. You can ask twenty people and you will get twenty different opinions. Humans are members of the homo sapiens species; a man, woman or child; a person. Rights are things to which you are entitled or allowed; freedoms that are guaranteed. So, human rights are the rights you have simply because you are human.

                              Although ideas of rights and liberty have existed in some form for much of human history, there is agreement that the earlier conceptions do not closely resemble the modern conceptions of human rights. According to Jack Donnelly, in the ancient world, "traditional societies typically have had elaborate systems of duties... conceptions of justice, political legitimacy, and human flourishing that sought to realize human dignity, flourishing, or well-being entirely independent of human rights. These institutions and practices are alternative to, rather than different formulations of, human rights". The history of human rights can be traced to past documents, particularly Constitution of Medina (622), Al-Risalah al-Huquq (659-713), Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), and the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution (1791). The modern sense of human rights can be traced toRenaissance Europe and the Protestant Reformation, alongside the disappearance of the feudal authoritarianism and religious conservativism that dominated the Middle Ages. One theory is that human rights were developed during the early Modern period, alongside the European secularization of Judeo-Christian ethics. The most commonly held view is that the concept of human rights evolved in the West, and that while earlier cultures had important ethical concepts, they generally lacked a concept of human rights. For example, McIntyre argues there is no word for "right" in any language before 1400. Medieval charters of liberty such as the English Magna Carta were not charters of human rights, rather they were the foundation and constituted a form of limited political and legal agreement to address specific political circumstances, in the case of Magna Carta later being recognised in the course of early modern debates about rights. One of the oldest records of human rights is the statute of Kalisz (1264), giving privileges to the Jewish minority in the Kingdom of Poland such as protection from discrimination and hate speech. Samuel Moyn suggests that the concept of human rights is intertwined with the modern sense of citizenship, which did not emerge until the past few hundred years.

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          I have done a questionnaire about Gu ta gutarrak, a programme that at the moment is very successful.                    



                

GLOGSTER

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            Today my classmate Naia and I, we have done a Glogster about  Woman rights. A gloster is a cloud-based (SaaS) platform for digital storytelling and interactive learning. It allows users to mix all kinds of media on a one virtual canvas to create multimedia posters, and access a library of engaging educational content created by students and educators worldwide. Glogster encourages interactive, collaborative education and digital literacy. (Wikipedia)
           
Click here to see our glogster.

Sport shop

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               Today, I'm going to publish a website that I have created  some days before. This website is about a sport bussines. I have created a sport shop called "Ainhoa's sport shop". In this sport shop you can buy different sport clothes like runing clothes, footbal clothes, basketball clothes, handball clothes and tennis clothes. I have 3 shops. One shop is located in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa and the other shops are located in Las Vegas. The website is in two different languages. In english and in Basque.

If you want to visit the website in Basque click here. If you want in english  click here.

Mind Map

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         I love music, so I have decided to make a mind42 about music. In this mind map I have chosen 4 music genres, rock, pop, blues and jazz and from each music genre I have chosen two famous musicians and bands. If you want to see my mind42 click here. I hope you will like.

Mo Yan

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         Today I'm going to writte about Mo Yan, a Chinese novelist and short story writter that he won a nobel prize in literature in 2012. He was born in Gaomi, Shandong, China in the 17th of february in 1955.

He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel Red Sorghum Clan, of which the Red Sorghum and Sorghum Wine volumes were later adapted for the film Red Sorghum. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".

On 11 October 2012, the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "withhallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Aged 57 at the time of the announcement, he was the 109th recipient of the award and the first ever resident of mainland China to receive it—Chinese-born Gao Xingjian, a citizen of France, having been named the 2000 laureate. In his Award Ceremony Speech, Per Wästberg explained: "Mo Yan is a poet who tears down stereotypical propaganda posters, elevating the individual from an anonymous human mass. Using ridicule and sarcasm Mo Yan attacks history and its falsifications as well as deprivation and political hypocrisy."

Swedish Academy head Peter Englund said less formally, "He has such a damn unique way of writing. If you read half a page of Mo Yan you immediately recognize it as him".  wikipedia

Mo Yan did the career in the Army, and actually is the vicepresident of the Association of the Writters of "PC". Despite to all the critics spilled against the Chinese regimen, evident in his fantastic novels, to the author they considerate a loyal person.

I have just read an article about Mo Yan and he sais:" My enemies are almost the writers"

NO TO THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE WOMAN!

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  Yesterday was the international day to say NO to the violence against the woman and I have decided to write about this theme because I think it is a serious problem.
In the European Union (EU) they have done a report with 42,000 women across the 28 Member States. It shows that violence against women, and specifically gender-based violence that disproportionately affects women, is an extensive human rights abuse that the EU cannot afford to overlook. Click here to obtain more information.

The World Health Organization defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation", but acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional meaning of the word.

Here you have a video about the violence against the woman.