Other Issues to be addressed as I learn more

1.  Your neighbor is shooting at your pets with a BB gun.  How do you stop them from doing this?

2.  The President of the country in which you live states that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction
in a distant country and he is going to war.  The U.S. and the Iraq War is a current example.  What could the government do to stop going to war?  What could you do?
 
3.  Two contiguous countries debate where their boundaries meet.  How can they resolve this peacefully? 


4.  How can I feel peace within myself?

5.  Women are being treated like property of their husbands.  What can be done?

6.  There is an active slave trade in your country.  What can be done?

7.  There is genocide taking place in a foreign country.  What can you do?

or choose your own issue.  Make sure to state the issue clearly.  Write it out on a piece of paper.
In fact, you might want to jot down the various paths you have taken as you venture through the Museum.

Human Rights Issues

Techniques to Stop Aggression

“We regard war as a fact. Our role is to alleviate the suffering of the civilians. It is our major commitment. We are not involved in peace-keeping operations. Our aim is to work in conflict zones and look after helpless noncombatant victims. Unpretentious as it is our conception of charity work is an end in itself. This principle led us to give evidence before the fact-finding parliamentary committee in Rwanda and to ask the French Parliament for an investigation of the Srebrenica mass slaughter.”

Dr Jean-Hervé Bradol, President of Médecins Sans Frontières.

Kossovo, 1999. As hundreds of thousands of Kossovars crossed the borders MSF provided medical help, insisted that they be given protection and published a report on the conditions of their displacement.

Rwanda, 1994. During the genocide MSF field workers did their best to give assistance to the wounded and demanded that the international community step in and stop the mass killing.

 Sri Lanka, 1999. MSF practices war surgery in Sri Lanka, a country torn by a 15-year-old civil war. In remote villages itinerant medical teams minister to the defenceless population.

 Sign up to join  the Army, Navy or Marines.

A civilian service for peace was originally set up as an alternative to military service. All those who, for religious or moral reasons, did not wish to bear arms could thus take an active part in actions of reconciliation, development, Civil Rights advancement or protection of the environment. Instead of fighting for the defence of Peace they were able to build it up.

A long-term objective may well be the gradual substitution of civil for military structures.

The 1994 Rwandan tragedy is not a mere tribal feud opposing Hutu and Tutsi, whose origin is lost in the mist of times. It dates back to the colonial era; the responsibility of France, Britain, Belgium and Germany is flagrant.

Countless children, either orphaned or separated from their families, ran wild during what will be remembered as one of the most massive population displacements ever. With the help of the Red Cross, UNICEF endeavoured to reconstruct families. They resorted to phototracing, a proven method used after World War II. Photos were made of some 20,000 children and displayed on itinerant exhibitions in order that parents or relatives might identify their kin.

Between April and July 1994 a flood of blood swept over Rwanda. Hutu radicals inaugurated the genocide, killing some 500,000 Tutsi. The Tutsi retaliated in kind and launched an offensive driving hundreds of thousands of Hutu across the border into Zaire where the UN tried to cope and set up canvas camps. 

As far back as the XV^th century, women have been fighting for equal rights. Their long struggle can also be seen as patriarchy in the negative, as a response to age-old male tyranny within an extremely rigid and arrogant system capable of extreme violence. The fact is that most wars as well as most instances of direct or indirect violence are to be attributed to men.

Struggling women have been voicing roughly the same claims as exploited or oppressed peoples: the right to have access to education and employment, to receive decent wages, to express their sexuality, whatever it may be, to take part in public activities and political life.

A civilian service for peace was originally set up as an alternative to military service. All those who, for religious or moral reasons, did not wish to bear arms could thus take an active part in actions of reconciliation, development, Civil Rights advancement or protection of the environment. Instead of fighting for the defence of Peace they were able to build it up.

A long-term objective may well be the gradual substitution of civil for military structures.

Conscientious objection is one of the fundamental rights included in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. Still severely penalized in many countries, conscientious objection became legal in France in 1963.

The phrase “conscientious objector’ was coined in South Africa. It applied to Gandhi and his followers who deliberately transgressed the law forbidding Indians to cross the border into the Transvaal. Later it applied more specifically to whoever refused to go to war.

Conscientious objection is one of the fundamental rights included in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. Still severely penalized in many countries, conscientious objection became legal in France in 1963.

Service Civil International (SCI) is an organization offering civil action as an alternative to military service. Established in 1920, it runs some 500 camps all over the world, where 5 to 20 persons from different geographic or cultural backgrounds volunteer to work together for 2 to 4 weeks.

A civilian service for peace was originally set up as an alternative to military service. All those who, for religious or moral reasons, did not wish to bear arms could thus take an active part in actions of reconciliation, development, Civil Rights advancement or protection of the environment. Instead of fighting for the defence of Peace they were able to build it up.

A long-term objective may well be the gradual substitution of civil for military structures.

Conscientious objection is one of the fundamental rights included in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights. Still severely penalized in many countries, conscientious objection became legal in France in 1963.

Service Civil International (SCI) is an organization offering civil action as an alternative to military service. Established in 1920, it runs some 500 camps all over the world, where 5 to 20 persons from different geographic or cultural backgrounds volunteer to work together for 2 to 4 weeks.

Use non lethal war tactics as suggested by an Air Force Research team - called the Sunshine Project:
1)   Expose enemy troops to powerful aphrodisiacs in order to distract them into lustful hookups with each other (irrespective of gender).
2)  Give the enemy severe halitosis (so they could be detected within a civilian population).
3)  Overrun enemy positions with rats or wasps.
4)  Create waves of fecal gas. 

As far back as the XV^th century, women have been fighting for equal rights. Their long struggle can also be seen as patriarchy in the negative, as a response to age-old male tyranny within an extremely rigid and arrogant system capable of extreme violence. The fact is that most wars as well as most instances of direct or indirect violence are to be attributed to men.

Struggling women have been voicing roughly the same claims as exploited or oppressed peoples: the right to have access to education and employment, to receive decent wages, to express their sexuality, whatever it may be, to take part in public activities and political life.

HUMAN RIGHTS

As far back as the XV^th century, women have been fighting for equal rights. Their long struggle can also be seen as patriarchy in the negative, as a response to age-old male tyranny within an extremely rigid and arrogant system capable of extreme violence. The fact is that most wars as well as most instances of direct or indirect violence are to be attributed to men.

Struggling women have been voicing roughly the same claims as exploited or oppressed peoples: the right to have access to education and employment, to receive decent wages, to express their sexuality, whatever it may be, to take part in public activities and political life.

1405 : Christine de Pisan écrit Le livre des trois vertus et Le livre de la Cité des Dames.

1405: Christine de Pisan wrote The Book of the Three Virtues and The Book of the City of Ladies.

1791 : Olympe de Gouges écrit la Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne.

1791: Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.