Bringing a Voice to the Voiceless Project
Directions: Take time to brainstorm potential groups to further research for this project. Look at these sites below for help. These are excellent resources that shed light on issues around the world. There are articles, videos, images, etc. for you to look at.
Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/
UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/
AFS Project: http://www.afsusa.org/project-change/
Speak Truth to Power: http://blogs.nysut.org/sttp/
Syrian refugees: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video
Child Labor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-8TBceaO5Q
United States Holocaust Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/cases/iraq/home
**Now that you've had time to look at these websites, post on the blog the group that you are interested in learning more about, the group that you want to focus on for this assignment. Similar to what you did for the last blog assignment, you want to include the following in your post:
- The name of the group (remember, you want this to be a specific group in a specific country, etc.)
- Answer the following questions in 3-4 sentences.
- Who are these people?
- What do you know about them?
- Where are they from?
- What is happening to them that prevents them from having a voice?
- Why is this a group that others need to know about?
Child Marriage- Zimbabwe, Africa. Teenage girls all over the world are forced into marriage because of things like being raped, getting pregnant and because their family's can no longer support them. These teenagers, practically still children, are being forced to live and be in a relationship with a lot older men. This is happening all over Zimbabwe but it also happens all over Africa and other parts of the world. These young girls are over ruled by the men and the people that force them into this and they are a huge minority compared to everyone else. These girls don't have a voice but they need one. Child marriage because of reasons like rape is very wrong and these girls need help and they need a way out. This shouldn't be happening but it does so we need to figure out how to stop it and how to help these children.
ReplyDeleteCitizens of Ecuador- Ecuador's National Assembly had approved a constitutional amendment that had lead to restrictions on free speech. The people of Ecuador have been stripped of their say in government decisions. These people don't have a say and if they attempt to make a change, they may be detained or even abused by the police. This violence even is towards people in the country who may have just been walking passed protestors. This needs to change because it is not just a small group of people but in fact a whole country of suppressed people, who are unable to fight for themselves.
ReplyDeleteDisabilities in Indonesia and India- In these countries people with disabilities are treated as less. In India for example they have created a law in which it states that people with disabilities are stripped of there rights to manage property, vote, or even to marry. In these countries these people with mental illnesses are said to have evil spirits in them, so family members can do nothing but chain them up. This shouldn't be happening to this poor group of people who have these disabilities for a wide range of reasons. These people need a voice because right now they are not being heard.
ReplyDeleteChildren in Nepal- Thousands of children in Nepal are being forced into labor without family care. Nepal also lacks any education law so these children are susceptible to fall into child labor. They don’t have a voice because they are so young and they need to provide for themselves so they are forced into child labor especially with the government enforcing child labor laws. About 30% of Nepal’s children work which is equivalent to just over 2 million people. It is necessary to make this group know to others because these children need help so they can grow up and support themselves; they can’t survive while being subjected to labor such as commercial sexual exploitation.
ReplyDeletePeople of Iraq- The people of northern Iraq have been under control of the Islamic State since the summer of 2014. The IS has taken over their homeland and the people can not do anything about it. For example fighters for IS forced the people out of their homes and made them flee business that have been around for a while. These citizens live in constant fear of being killed, or kidnapped by the IS. They have no voice and if they go against the IS they will be killed. They need a voice because they have been terrorized enough and their simplistic lives and been ruined.
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