10th Anniversary of this Blog - Part IV

                Good morning for whom is reading this text in the morning. Good afternoon, if you are reading in the afternoon and good evening for whom is reading at night. As last post of the year, I've decided to carry on celebrating the decade doing this blog. The celebration started I writing about how I've been an resilient activist for better education. The second I wrote about how important is the GDP growth for development and to create better conditions of living for the population. And in order to better analyse the growth in differents countries we need to compare countries with the same stage of development. The third I wrote about the importance for all of us to defend human rights. Now it is time to write about others important issues I have been writing in this ten years, besides those I said previously. If you have been reading this blog, you have realized that there are many texts about democracy, politics, political inclusion, and justice. All these issues are interconnected. For a better country all of them must work well. All political scientists say that the better political system is that with full democracy with period plebiscites, accountable politicians with incentives for renovation and transparent organisms. An impartial and based on human rights judiciary system is also fundamental. So, I need to ask you, Are we having all these conditions for improvement in Brazil. The Brazilian people want these changes. It is what was shown in the huge protests of June 2013. That is why I keep remembering the second biggest manifestation in Brazil history. We should never to give up fighting for a better country, with better democracy with a better and inclusive politics. Have you already thought about the importance of a more inclusive politics? Without more candidates with real chances to win, the mandate owners may feel little pressure to work for a better country, state or city, besides they feel they can easily win every election without being accountable for their work or lack of it. So, it is fundamental importance to have a political system that support and encourage people take side on politicals issues that direct or indirect affect their lives and participate in the election. A health democracy needs as many citizens participating as possible in the political debate as well as in the elections. If you want to read more about the importance of popular participation you can read this text, http://thepeopleteacher.blogspot.com/2016/07/strengthening-citizen-participation-in.html But I think that everyone knows it, so I have to ask, why have I had my right to participate in the elections systematically violated? It should have a law compelling a political party that promised to register a candidate to do it. If not they are free to deny some candidate the right to participate in the election. And nothing happens to them. They did not have any reason to deny this right to me. On the contrary, I decided to participate in the elections because the people was asking me to do it. Since 2011, when I joined a party, we have waiting and wishing this justice. Here in the city where I was born and live, the people know me since I started to work for my father when I was fourteen years old, so they know I am a ethical, hard-working, honest and sympathetic person, and they want to see me as a politician. And why can they not have their desire accomplished? But now it is not only them, we have realized the support for my political rights coming from all over the world, the desire of a lot of people abroad and from other parts of Brazil to see me working as a politician. By the way, I really appreciate all the support we felt here, I really would like to thank you all. We all have to recognize  people that use their work as journalist or their fame as actor or actress to lower hypocrisy and to increase truth and justice. And I hope never disappoint all these support and we will have to keep our fight for human rights, democracy and justice for many years ahead for the good of humankind.

Human Rights Day 2020

             This post is a summary of three articles. The first was published at https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/human-rights-day-2020-theme-campaign-slogan-importance-2336402. The second was published at  https://www.standup4humanrights.org/en/humanrightsdays2020.html. The third was published at   https://virgin.co.uk/branson-family/richard-branson-blog/thoughts-on-human-rights-day

                 This year's human rights day focuses on the devastating fallout of COVID-19 pandemic on the underpriviliged people, children, and women and the need to build back better by ensuring human rights are central to recovery efforts. Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 and every year the U.N. encourages nations "to create equal opportunities for all and address the issue of inequality, exclusion and discrimination. Human Rights Day is a great opportunity to spread awareness about the importance of human rights in our communities and worldwide solidarity in rebuilding after the pandemic. "Recover Better - Stand Up For Human Rights" is the theme for human rights day this year. The aim is to engage with all partners and also involve the people to push  for transformative action. The pandemic has pushed innumerable people to the brink. In order to "build back better", the widening gap among people must be addressed, according to the world rights body. 1) End discrimination of any kind.  2) Take steps to protect economic rights.  3) Encourage participation and solidarity.  4) Promote sustainable development.                                                                     The theme for this year's Human Rights Day relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to recover better by ensuring human rights are at the heart of the recovery efforts. The global COVID-19 crisis has been fuelled by deepening poverty, rising inequalities, strucutural and entrenched discrimination and other gaps in human rights protection. Only measures to close these gaps and advanced human rights can ensure we fully recover to a world that is better and more resilient, just and sustainable. Human Rights Day is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human rights in re-building the world we want, with global solidarity, interconnectedness and shared humanity. The annual celebration of Human Rights Day highlight how people everywhere stand up for human rights. In Geneva, on 10 December, UN human Rights will host "Recover better: stand up for Human Rights", an exclusive online audio-visual event. The 90-minute programme will highlight innovation by and inspirational stories of people and organizations that are finding ways to rebuild a better world by placing human rights at the heart of the recovery from COVID-19. In New York, UN Human Rights will host "ACelebration of COVID-19 Frontline Heroes." This one-hour virtual event will spotlight frontline workers who have borne the brunt of the pandemic and community organizers who have helped those around them to cope with the pandemic in a human rights-centered manner. In Latin America, an online concert will be organized on recovery better through music.                                                                                                                      Human Rights Day is more than a commemoration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by UN members states on 10 December 1948 - in and of itself a real accomplishment of a weary human family emerging from the bloodshed and terror of World War II. It is a good reminder that the idea of human rights must never be taken for granted. Millions around the world continue  to live under constant threat of discrimination, intimidation, persecution, torture and even death for standing up for their human rights and those of others. Many continue to languish in prisons for speaking truth to power, for demanding recognition and respect, for challenging authoritarianism and oppression. Perhaps the most tragic part for many is that their voices are never heard, their stories never told, and their names never known. As respect for the rule of law has eroded in so many places, and human rights and human dignity have come under attack from populists and authoritarian rulers alike, this is the moment to stand up, speak our minds and demand change.

Some Psychological Aspects of Privacy

               This post is a summary of the article with the title above published at    https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol31/iss2/5/

                 The state of privacy is related to the act of concealment. Privacy is an outcome of a person's wish to withhold from others certain knowledge as to his past and present experience and action and his intentions for the future.The wish for privacy expresses a desire to be an enigma to others or, more generally, a desire to control others' perceptions. What consequences follow from compulsory visibility? One may hope that the rough answer to this question attempted below will be deemed relevant and useful in appraising the value of privacy in certain of its legal contexts. An adult person lives his life in relation to various social systems. He is taught appropriate ways to behave, depending upon his age, sex, family position, occupation, and social class. If he does not conform to extant role-definitions, sanctions are directed against him. A kind of sanction applied against actions and utterances that are unacceptable, or not intelligible to others, is the process of denigrating the actor or utterer by calling him "mentally ill." If a person can not or will not learn expected roles, he may be regarded by others as "mad." When this happens, the person can be hospitalized. Prior to the pronouncement that he is cured or improved, the patient is subject to eletric shocks, injections, administration of tranquilizing drugs, and conversations with a professional person ( psychiatrist, psychologist, or nurse). The experience of psychotherapists have shown that people maintain themselves in physical health and in psychological well-being when they have a "private place." Those responsible for ruling and leading a society, whether self-appointed or elected, have a vested interest in knowing what people are thinking, feeling, and doing. Even in a democracy, they may spy upon people and reporting to the authorities what they have seen. Bur where there is not privacy, there is little or no individuality. The whole process of a person's becoming a unit is one of divesting himself of his private existence. Sartre's statement holds a psychological as well as an artistic truth. One view of "hell" is changelessness. The person who can not grow, who experiences his own being and the being of the world as "frozen" in its present status, is in a kind of "hell." Without the availability of private places, people suffer individually, and society suffers collectively. As a psychoterapist, I have frequently been called upon to help persons find more viable ways to live than those that have culminated in a breakdown. In my opinion, our educational institutions are misnamed. The schools, from kindergarten through university, might better be called training institutions for promoting conformity in ideology and social behavior. True educators, by contrast, aims at awakening, illuminating and expanding consciousness, at eliciting new possibilities of thinking, feeling and acting; at exploring new realms of value; at providing standards of truth and justice that afford a basis in consciousness for criticizing and modifying existing ways. People who emerge, thus educated, from our institutions of learning are rare. If exploration and inventiveness in ways to live, play, and interact with others is not permitted, or, if permitted, is not conceivable or tolerable to rigidly trained people, we can expect increasing rates of suicide, alcoholism and drug addiction, and psychological and physical breadown. If the general population came to believe that private life is free, that its privacy is to be respected, and that variety, not uniformity, in ways to live is a value, then the expected catastrophes following may be averted. Doubtless, too those current aspects of family life that militate against the quest for viable and health-yielding ways to live in private will have to be changed. In short, privacy is experienced as "room to grow in," as freedom from interference, and as freedom to pursue experimental projects in science, art, work, and living. In the name of the status quo and other,  privacy may be eroded. But without privacy and its concomitant, freedom, the cost to be paid for the ends achieved, in terms of lost health, weak commitment to the society, and social stagnation, may be too great.