10th Anniversary of this Blog - Part III

          In the previous posts I wrote about two very important issues that are very related to each other, education and development. This time I'll write about another very important issue that I have been writing a lot in this decade doing this blog and deserve the concern of everybody. The defense of  human rights. Actually I have been a strong, steady, and resolute activist for human rights. I think that the defense of human rights should have much more activists than there are nowadays.  Everything that we take for granted in a democracy depend on human rights: your freedom to speak what you want to speak, your freedom to choose any candidate you want to vote, your freedom to have the most basic things in your life such as: your own life and your privacy, your freedom to access justice and official organisms and have your complaints take seriously. And your right to have some reparation, compensation when your right have not been respect and this damage severely your life. A life without those basic human rights is so unbearable that is even difficult for us to imagine our lives without them. If you want to imagine how would be to live without those basic rights, you can watch some movies to help you to imagine how unbearable it would be. Movies such as: 1984, The Killings Fields, Hunger Games, V for Vendetta and many other fictional and non-fictional movies telling us how abuse of power can increase to the point to interfere in our daily and intimate lives doing us to think how precious are those basic rights. It's important to know how a dystopia would be in order to avoid any precedent event or situation that can lead us to this nightmare, to this hell for the majority of the population. Besides movies, the literature can also give a clear idea how a dystopia would look like. If you want to know about the importance of dystopian literature, you can read this post      http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-importance-of-dystopian-literature.html or this  http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2016/01/orwells-world.html. Nowadays eventually we still can listen some disinformed people say nonsense about human rights, for exemplo that human rights defend bandits or it's against punishment. I have been writing a lot about the importance of human rights, but if you especifically want to read something about punishment and human rights click here  http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-human-rights-agenda-and-struggle.html or here   http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2018/12/handbook-on-justice-for-victims.html. If you are a reader of this blog, after the readings of these posts and realizing all that have been happenning in the world in the last two decades, I hope you have a better understanding about human rights and become a human rights defender too. And for those that already are human rights defenders like the NGOs I hope you can realize that more can be done.