Declaration of Human Rights and Independence

Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.	My Understanding Social. Everyone has the right to live a descent life.
Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.	Rachel's Understanding Economic No child labor and cheap labor, only fair working conditions for all workers.

Refugees

Refugee: definition

§  Refugees are people who have left their homeland because they fear that they will lose their lives or freedom if they stay. People become refugees because one or more of their basic human rights has been violated or threatened.

§  International law defines a ‘refugee’ as a person who has fled from and/ or cannot return to their country due to well founded fear or persecution including war or conflict.

A person is a refugee if:

§  Refugees have to be outside their country of origin

§  Their reason for flight of

fear has to be persecution

§  The fear of persecution has to be well founded, i.e. they have to have experienced persecution or likely to experience it if they return

§  The persecution has to result from one or more of the 5 grounds listed in the definition;

§  They have to be unwilling or unable to seek the protection of their country.

Who protects refugees?

§  UNHCR

§  Protecting refugees is the core mandate of the UNHCR ( United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

§  Who do they help?

§  The UNHCR’s primary goal is to help and protect the rights of refugees but they also help

§  Stateless people

§  Women

§  The elderly

§  The disabled

§  They work in more then 110 countries and have helped over 34.4 million people reclaim their lives.

    Where are they involved?

§  They work in:

§  Africa

§  The Americas

§  Asia and the pacific

§  Europe

§  The Middle East

§  North Africa

The Philippines

The Philippines is made up of more than 7,000 tropical islands and has a population of 90 million. The country has a tropical marine climate with a dry season (Nov-April) and a rainy season (May-Oct).
The capital Manila-Metro Manila- is a spawling cluster of 17 cities with municipalities such as Manila, Quezon, Passay, and so on generating a populace to guess at; perhaps start at 10 million and keep counting.
Manila has a high population density, with one district having over 68,000 people per square kilometres so at times it may feel a little crowdered especially if you have just arrived from London which has about 8,000 people per square kilometre.
Tagalog is the national language and English is used for official/buisness purposes.
There are 54 other languages with over 140 dialect variations.
The Philippines had the world's third largest English speaking population.

United Nations-Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations

The Declaration of Human Rights.

What are Human Rights?

Human rights are the rights and freedoms that we all have.

Some human rights are based on our physical needs:
the right to life, food, shelter

Other human rights protect us:
The right to be free from torture, cruel treatment and abuse.

Human rights are also there to ensure we develop to our fullest potential:
The right to education, to work, to participate in your community.

Everybody has human rights it doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, what language you speak or what religion you belong to. You have a duty to respect the rights of others just as they have a duty to respect yours. NOBODY CAN TAKE YOUR RIGHT AWAY

Human rights were officially recognised as values by the world when the UN was set up.

What is the UN?

©       The UN is an international organisation that was established in 1945 the year the Second World War ended.

©       Its founded hoped it would be able to prevent catastrophes like the holocaust from happening in the future.

©       So promoting human rights became an aim of the UN, along with maintaining international peace and reducing poverty.

The Universal Declaration of Human rights(UDHR)

The UN universal declaration of human rights is the most famous human rights agreement in the world. It contains 30 Human Rights.

Who wrote the UDHR?

The people who wrote it came from Australia, Chilie, China, France, Lebanon and many more countries.

Declaration of Human Rights

Article 17:

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

 No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Translation:

Everyone has right to their own possessions and to a sense of ownership with all possessions and no one’s possessions should be randomly taken away.

Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

The meaning of this article is explaining that everyone has the right to feel safe and their rights to be respected

Kiribati and Climate Change

What are the issues? What is being done about the issue?

Kiribati is a nation. Kiribati is a coral atoll consisting of 33 islands. Around 100,000 people live there.

The issues:

·         A lot of people in a small space

·         Rising sea levels

·         About 400m wide

·         The average height above sea level is less than 2m

·         The governor is thinking that Kiribati may be the first country to fall victim to climate change, underwater by 2030

·          Global warming is thought to be causing this

·         The crops are hard to grow because of the salt in the ground

·         The storms they get are getting wilder and ruining the island

·         Lack of water is a problem there

·         Storm surges, drought and erosion are three major causes of environmental impact

Things being done:

·         The Government is educating people in Navy Training

·         Australian Government has funded for nurse training

Tackling Tuberculosis

·         300/1000 people on Kiribati with tuberculosis

·         World Health Organisation says that it is an issue if they have 25 people

·         It is spread through coughing.

·         Average number of people in each household is 13

·         4 specialist nurses to go out and help people

·         The nurses are funded by the Australian Governments Aid.

·         They isolate people with tuberculosis for up to 2 months before being transferred to a hospital.

·         Australia is also funding the build of a lab and pharmacy.

·         They are aiming to reduce the numbers by 30%

Kiribati Australian Initiatives

·         Griffith University in Brisbane is where the nurses get their degree

·         Get education so if they need to immigrate they have more chance.

·         Nurses are trained the most because they are needed more world wide.

What is the Cycle of Poverty?

The cycle of poverty has been described as a phenomenon where poor families trapped in poverty for generations because they have no or limited access to critical resources, such as:

           ·          Education

           ·          Financial services,

Subsequent generations are also impoverished.

There are multiple cycles of poverty-based on, among other things,

           ·          Economic,

           ·          Social,

           ·          Spiritual and

           ·          Geographical factors

Many cycles overlap or perpetuate new cycles and therefore any attempt to depict the cycle of poverty will be far more simplistic than realistic.

The Figure below shows-in very simplistic terms- how a cycle of poverty related to hunger keeps a person or household poor in one of the world’s developing countries.

8+ Goals

In September 2000, Koffi Annan, former General Secretary of the United Nations, suggested that we could do something to end world poverty worldwide. 189 countries met in New York City and agreed that by September 2015, we can acheive 8 goals towards ending global poverty. The 8 goals are:

• Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
• Acheive universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat diseases HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development