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 Fundación Cultura de Paz
Viernes, 21 de noviembre de 2008   

Foro Inglés

PROYECTO DE LA PAZ Y DERECHOS HUMANOS: Área de inglés

Se compone de dos sesiones en el propio Centro y un foro en un Centro de reunión. Los principales objetivos de las sesiones son que los alumnos tomen un primer contacto con los derechos humanos, conozcan sus diferentes categorías y se sensibilicen ante las injusticias y por los derechos humanos a los que se les presta menos atención.

Como el foro se realizará en inglés, también se pretende que los alumnos tomen contacto con cierto vocabulario relativo a los derechos humanos, como el contenido en los textos de abajo. El foro será de carácter dinámico para que los alumnos disfruten, y se evitará en la medida de lo posible que los alumnos se intimiden por hablar en inglés.

Las actividades que se presentan a continuación no son más que ideas orientadoras que pueden ser usadas o no, según el criterio de cada profesor. También decidirá cada profesor qué destreza desarrollará más en su aula (listening, speaking, reading, writing), aunque para el foro se necesitarán más las de escuchar y hablar


Sesión 1
Actividad 1:
Warm up. Para introducir a los alumnos al tema se puede visionar un vídeo de un reportaje sobre el hambre, minas antipersonales, etcétera; o dar recortes de publicidad de ONGs, para que los alumnos den su opinión de lo que es (el material para esta actividad no lo damos).
Tiempo: 10 minutos?

Actividad 2:
El profesor pregunta a los alumnos Si saben tipos de derechos humanos y ONGs y se escriben en la pizarra los principales tipos: Starvation, health, poverty, education, women’s rights, children’s rights, civil rights, environment...
Tiempo: 5 minutos?

Actividad 3:
El profesor pone en las paredes los textos de abajo, y los alumnos se levantan y, tras leer los carteles1, se quedan debajo del que consideran más importante para ellos. (Alternativa: se ponen los textos en una mesa en cada esquina, se hacen 4 grupos que van a cada esquina y escogen el texto que más le sensibiliza). Después cada persona o grupo comenta (en L1 o L2) el porqué de la elección.
Tiempo: 45 minutos?


Textos
UNICEF
www.unicef.org
Starvation
As many as 14 million people, half of them children, are at risk of starvation in the six affected countries: Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Starvation and health
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has reduced agricultural productivity and food security in poor countries. This means that fewer adults must support more people. Poverty. Desperate people adopt damaging and high-risk “survival strategies” such as selling off land or exchanging sex for food or cash. These strategies undercut people’s ability to recover and contribute to long term poverty.
Health and children
Over 13 million children have been orphaned by AIDS, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and their number are expected to increase to 5 million by 2005.
Education and healthThe education system is threatened by teacher deaths because of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
OXFAM
www.oxfam.org
Labour rights/globalisationWorking in the factory is hard. We are not well treated, and if we become sick we have no protection. Do people in your country think about our conditions when they buy the shirts we make?
Newak Hazari, sewing machine operator earns 1$ for a 14 hour day.
Civil rights
To avoid the risk of organised protests by workers or trade unions, Cambodia is creating Export Industrial Zones. In these, the workers will live isolated from the rest of the country.
Women
90% of all garment workers are women. Most of them have migrated from poor rural areas to support their relatives. Families often leave them with barely enough to survive.
HealthFourteen million people die from treatable diseases every year. Many of these lives could be saved if cheap drugs were available.
Labour rights/globalisationThe US boost its farm subsidies by a massive 70 per cent. Their products are a third cheaper than local products in countries like the Philippines, so that is a disaster for local farmers.
MSF Médicos Sin Fronteras
www.msf.es
WarA tragic landmine explosion has left seven dead,including four MSF national staff members. International media campaign for MSF volunteer kidnapped in Dagestan for four months.
Civil rightsTen years after “Operation restore Hope”, Somalia is left alone to suffer. On 1992 this operation started on the beaches of Somalia with the aim of rescuing the civilian population from hunger and violence.
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org
Civil rightsTaliban Detainees in Guantanamo Bay should not be beyond the protection of the law. Their conditions of detention –held in small cells for up to 24 hours a day with no access to lawyers or family…
WHO World Health Organization
www.who.int
Health/hunger
Burkina Faso -this week marks the end of 30 years of work to eliminate river blindness as a public health threat in West Africa. As a result of the programme, thousands of farmers are able to reclaim 25 hectares of fertile river land enough to feed 17 million people.
Health
A new international HIV Treatment Access Coalition aims to increase access to antiretroviral drugs to people with HIV/AIDS. ARVs dramatically reduce HIV-related illness and death.
Women’s rights
WHO urges governments to take action to reduce violence against women.
Poverty
Nestle demands 6 million dollars from Ethiopia* in compensation for a business that was nationalized under a different government 27 years ago, a business that Nestle didn’t even own at the time.
*one of the poorest countries with an average income of less than $2 a day.
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
Environment
Greenpeace activists attempting to stop an ageing oil tanker similar to Prestige in Rotterdam have been removed by court order.
NELSON MANDELA. Oxford Factfiles, Level 4 
LIBRO DE LECTURA: Nelson Mandela, de Rowena Akinyemi 


Sesión 2
Para la sesión 2 se podrá explotar el texto adjunto de la revista Speak Up (se incluye cinta de cassette).