Research for Question for Human Trafficking:
(possibilities):
Is the human trafficking industry more successful than industries such as the drug trade? --> what makes it more or as successful? (why/how?)
If the US is indeed one of the main countries that is greatly involved in human trafficking, why is it not a more prominent issue?
Where is human trafficking most prominent in the US?
To answer these questions, I will need to research human trafficking in the US. Where does the people come from? How do they get into the US? Where do they go? I will also need to know the financial side of human trafficking, for example how much a human would cost from a certain country.
I will most likely be using sources such as new articles and websites. I would also possibly like to look for a first hand account from a person that had been sold in human trafficking, I think that would be a very valuable source.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Online Media Presentation on Made in India
I made my presentation on prezi.com! I hope you enjoy it, you just have to click through in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, there is not an auto-play button, but click through at your leisure!
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Possibble Ideas for Human Rights Presentation
I am interested in researching the situation of Afghan women. How they have been lighting themselves on fire in order to escape their abusive families. I am also interested in researching sex trafficking.
This book and article seem helpful/interesting:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13960-1/sex-trafficking/reviews
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=afghan%20burning&st=cse
Why do the Afghan women not try to get help? Why can't they go to the hospitals before they light themselves on fire?
I have not begun to research sex trafficking, but why has it become so prominent in the recent years?
This book and article seem helpful/interesting:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13960-1/sex-trafficking/reviews
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=afghan%20burning&st=cse
Why do the Afghan women not try to get help? Why can't they go to the hospitals before they light themselves on fire?
I have not begun to research sex trafficking, but why has it become so prominent in the recent years?
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Post Genocide Question
1. In what ways did genocide impact the development of this “developing” country?
The genocide made the UN and foreign governments more apt to help in the future, made them feel guilty and more concerned. The development stunted their growth as a country because they lost so many people during the genocide. Due to the mass killings and the tattered government system, Rwanda's development has been put on hold because they are trying to rebuild Rwanda to what it used to be first before they can move forward.
2. Where does the rebuilding of a country shattered by genocide begin? What can the people do? What can the government do? What can the international community do?
It begins with having closure through justice. The people that went through the genocide need closure through the trials of the people that committed the genocide. The government then should focus on making Rwanda a better and safer place for the people living there. They need to focus on getting the population of Rwanda back to what it was before the genocide. The international community can show that they will be willing to help if a genocide is to every occur again. They would need to take actions that would show that they have concern for Rwanda and won't just leave them out to dry.
3. How can justice be found in post-genocide Rwanda?
The trials of all the people that are still being held in prisons in Rwanda need to be processed. These people have been waiting in prison for over ten years and instead of just leaving them in prison to rot, they need to tried and then sentenced.
4. Which can bring justice to the people of Rwanda more effectively – international courts or community courts? Explain.
Cooperation between both international and community courts would bring about effective justice. To bring criminals back to the place where they committed horrible crimes and to have them tried in that area would have a powerful effect on their guilt. On the other hand, the international courts have much more power and control of a larger scale.
The genocide made the UN and foreign governments more apt to help in the future, made them feel guilty and more concerned. The development stunted their growth as a country because they lost so many people during the genocide. Due to the mass killings and the tattered government system, Rwanda's development has been put on hold because they are trying to rebuild Rwanda to what it used to be first before they can move forward.
2. Where does the rebuilding of a country shattered by genocide begin? What can the people do? What can the government do? What can the international community do?
It begins with having closure through justice. The people that went through the genocide need closure through the trials of the people that committed the genocide. The government then should focus on making Rwanda a better and safer place for the people living there. They need to focus on getting the population of Rwanda back to what it was before the genocide. The international community can show that they will be willing to help if a genocide is to every occur again. They would need to take actions that would show that they have concern for Rwanda and won't just leave them out to dry.
3. How can justice be found in post-genocide Rwanda?
The trials of all the people that are still being held in prisons in Rwanda need to be processed. These people have been waiting in prison for over ten years and instead of just leaving them in prison to rot, they need to tried and then sentenced.
4. Which can bring justice to the people of Rwanda more effectively – international courts or community courts? Explain.
Cooperation between both international and community courts would bring about effective justice. To bring criminals back to the place where they committed horrible crimes and to have them tried in that area would have a powerful effect on their guilt. On the other hand, the international courts have much more power and control of a larger scale.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Thoughts after Maus II Disucssion
An image that emotionally shocked me is the bottom block on pg. 72 of Maus II. Spiegelman depicts the Jews burning in either one of the crematoriums or a cremation pit. The caption above says, "Prisoners what worked there poured gasoline over the live ones and the dead ones". This terrifies me because the prisoners were forced to help on, or essentially kill the other prisoners. They were forced to pour gasoline on them! When really those prisoners that were pouring the gasoline would be the next to die. It is unthinkable what the prisoners were forced to do. The lower text box says, "And the fat from the burning bodies they scooped and poured again so everyone could burn better". This is really shows the frankness Speigelman writes with. It is almost as if he is being sarcastic about the way they would re-use the fat to help the other bodies burn more easily. Perhaps Speigelman is not using sarcasm, but more along the lines of complete and utter truth and therefore it comes out in a way that one is not sure to take it so seriously.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Reflection on Human Rights Activity
A statement that where I noticed my thinking changed was: It is wrong to torture another person. I feel like before I really thought about this statement, I felt that if someone committed a horrible crime, they deserved to be tortured for it. But once I heard Kelly say that out loud, it did not make sense. It seemed a bit silly actually. That actually led me to realize that, in my opinion, in most cases it is wrong to torture another person. When Olen and Sarah were talking about how a life is still a life, what is torturing going to accomplish? People will say anything to make the pain stop. Also, torturing someone will not cause them to realize the extreme, horrific nature of their crime. This also swayed me toward my opinion. However I did start to lean toward it is always wrong to torture another person because like Olen pointed out: a person will say anything to get the pain to stop. So if the CIA, for example, is torturing someone for information, the person could give them fake information to make the torturing stop, but then the CIA will have achieved nothing and received no important, helpful information. I am not quite sure what this reflects about the type of person I am.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Current Events in the Democratic Republic of Congo
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/africa/04congo.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=the%20democratic%20republic%20of%20congo&st=cse&scp=1
This article is from the New York Times, written by Jeffrey Gettlemen. The title is Frenzy of Rape in Congo Reveals U.N. Weakness. Gettlemen discusses the raid which took place on October 3 by rebel forces. They came into a village and raped at least 200 women. There were dozens of UN peace keepers stationed up the rode, but failed to respond. The peace keepers said the responsibility to respond was left to the Congolese Army. The questions this article brought up for me were: If the UN has invested so much money in the Congo, why are they struggling so much to keep peace? With over 1,500 peace keepers in the Congo, why can they not protect the citizens? It is very disturbing to me that with so much outside influence from the UN, the Congo is still very unsafe and the citizens are in terror. I do not know how the UN should continue or pursue a course of action in order to take the Congo in the right direction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11469140
This article is from the BBC, there was no author. The article is title DR Congo: Joseph Kabila critic's 'suicide' doubted. The article addresses the man that threw a stone a President Joseph Kabila's convoy had committed suicide in prison. It was said that he was arrested and then taken to prison. In the prison, he killed himself by using a pillow case. Jacob Baluish of the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights told the AFP news agency suspects fowl play! How could he have committed suicide by a pillowcase when we all know there was no pillowcase!? This article brought up the questions: Why are the Congolese officials trying to cover up this instance? Why are they trying to make it seem like the man committed suicide? Did they kill him just because he threw the rock or was there more involved? This is makes me think, if a man is killed for simply throwing a rock in the Congo, what other simple things are people being punished for?
This article is from the New York Times, written by Jeffrey Gettlemen. The title is Frenzy of Rape in Congo Reveals U.N. Weakness. Gettlemen discusses the raid which took place on October 3 by rebel forces. They came into a village and raped at least 200 women. There were dozens of UN peace keepers stationed up the rode, but failed to respond. The peace keepers said the responsibility to respond was left to the Congolese Army. The questions this article brought up for me were: If the UN has invested so much money in the Congo, why are they struggling so much to keep peace? With over 1,500 peace keepers in the Congo, why can they not protect the citizens? It is very disturbing to me that with so much outside influence from the UN, the Congo is still very unsafe and the citizens are in terror. I do not know how the UN should continue or pursue a course of action in order to take the Congo in the right direction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11469140
This article is from the BBC, there was no author. The article is title DR Congo: Joseph Kabila critic's 'suicide' doubted. The article addresses the man that threw a stone a President Joseph Kabila's convoy had committed suicide in prison. It was said that he was arrested and then taken to prison. In the prison, he killed himself by using a pillow case. Jacob Baluish of the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights told the AFP news agency suspects fowl play! How could he have committed suicide by a pillowcase when we all know there was no pillowcase!? This article brought up the questions: Why are the Congolese officials trying to cover up this instance? Why are they trying to make it seem like the man committed suicide? Did they kill him just because he threw the rock or was there more involved? This is makes me think, if a man is killed for simply throwing a rock in the Congo, what other simple things are people being punished for?
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