06
February
2012

INFIBULATION, A SIGN THAT IS NOT CLEAR

A delicate international situation and relations such as trade-offs that we see daily, based on fragile and precarious balance does not seem to give the right space to the female condition.

Unfortunately not yet protected from violation of their fundamental rights, women living in situations of profound unease. Ignorance and lack of information mean that crimes such as circumcision, female circumcision, excision are perpetrated with impunity. (more…)

03
February
2012

FACEBOOK LISTED IN STOCK EXCHANGE, AS IS OUR PRIVACY?


He has not yet turned 28 years old but is already among the richest and most powerful men the world dl. I’m talking about Mark Zuckerberg, the famous inventor of Facebook, that within less than 10 years has come to create an empire of 17.5 billion dollars. Consider that in 2003, Zuckerberg was just a freshman at Harvard, just come to university to study psychology and computer science, and immediately planned Facemash, the forerunner of Facebook we know now. (more…)

01
February
2012

THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN AND ‘STILL A REALITY’ IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE

A news the last few hours is that a girl of 22 years was strangled by her husband because she has given birth to a baby girl, the third of three daughters. We are north of Kabul in a village in Kunduz province. The murderer took refuge in the house of a local chief whose protection makes it untouchable. Even for the police. (more…)

30
January
2012

HUMANITARIAN ACTION FOR CHILDREN 2012: AND ‘EMERGENCY STILL IN 25 AREAS OF THE WORLD

We don’t talk about it every day but emergencies in Third World countries remain. I do not know if you’ve got to listen to the words during the presentation of UNICEF’s latest report “Humanitarian Action for Children 2012″. The situation is nothing short of dramatic. Children, especially the one in the Horn of Africa, still have a future ahead of them just problems, from hunger to thirst, lack of education to poor health. Really miss everything and the problems are the usual ones, almost as if the third millennium and its progress there had never arrived. He felt angry that while Western countries think about gas prices and save the banks, there are still reality where you are unable to follow even the most basic needs. (more…)

27
January
2012

HOLOCAUST, NOT TO FORGET. A STORY THAT CAN NOT AND DO NOT BE REPEATED

Today is an important day for the history and the historical memory of humanity. Surely you will ever read on the web or newspapers that today we celebrate the “Day of Remembrance”, but perhaps not everyone knows why. On 27 January 1945, Russian soldiers opened the gates of the concentration camp of Auschwitz confronted with a horror inhumane (more…)

25
January
2012

RESEARCH VS ETHICS. BUT IT’S JUST PUTTING LIMITS?

Reports of these hours are that in the U.S. stem cell research has imported the results as regards blindness, think that two women have recovered their sight thanks to the plant stem. (more…)

23
January
2012

WHEN THE EMERGENCY IS NORMAL: FLEEING FROM CONGO

Today I want to talk to one of the many forgotten emergencies: in the Congo there are hundreds of people fleeing from their city and their homes to save their lives. (more…)

20
January
2012

MEGAVIDEO CLOSE. ALSO FBI AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF NETWORK?

Megaupload and Megavideo have been closed by the FBI. All this the day after the protest against the law of the web gag. In fact, the U.S. court decision came just in time when the Sopa through Congress, the law that gives autonomy to the servers to decide on copyright. (more…)

18
January
2012

FREEDOM RUNS ALONG THE NETWORK CAN NOT BE’ SHUT THE WEB!

Imagine that today you need to look for something on wikipedia, the most widely used online encyclopedia in the world, well, now you can not. For 24 hours, in fact, Wikipedia has decided to obscure its thousands of pages to protest against two laws currently being discussed in Parliament the U.S., the so-called Sopa and Pipa. Two laws from which the president Barack Obama has distanced itself and against which we should all protest. (more…)

16
January
2012

GREEN ENERGY IS REALLY GOOD FOR THE PLANET?

Today I want to talk of the biofuel industry, many of us tend to think that this industry is an effective alternative to fossil fuels and is, therefore, sustainable and environmentally friendly choice.

13
January
2012

FROM THE VIDEO SHOCK OF THE U.S. MILITARY TO THE SENSE OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

Turn these days on the web a video that captures four American soldiers who died in the most profane of the unworthy: urinating on dead bodies. (more…)

11
January
2012

WHY THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE TO BECOME A SOCIAL NETWORK?

Among the news today I happened to read an in-depth news that Google wants to make all its software, in particular to its search engine. How many times in recent years I’ve had to seek more detailed information on a topic and to rely on good old Google search algorithm? Any string I tried, I was always sure to have the links between the results more reliable sites. Now no longer the case. (more…)

09
January
2012

TEN YEARS OF GUANTANAMO, A SAD ANNIVERSARY HOPE IS THE LAST

The January 11 marks a sad anniversary: ​​ten years have passed since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo, the prison dedicated to terrorists captured in Afghanistan. And ‘that day, on 11 January 2002, which began the shameful story of the American penitentiary. (more…)

23
December
2011

MY HOPE IS ’KNOW THAT THE NEW YEAR OF FREEDOM TO COLLECT THE GERMS’ SOWN IN THIS 2011

And here we are at Christmas and at the end of this 2011. It is known that these periods of financial statements and it is natural to reconsider in light of the things that have happened to our priorities. (more…)