Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
What is Human Rights?
Often we all see news about human rights violations, in newspapers and televisions or even the radio. However, do we know really know the meaning of human rights are or how this really affect us? Human rights are those rights that are possessed by all human beings, regardless of their nationality, gender, place of residence, ethnic origin, color, language, religion and social status. All of us are equally entitled to human rights, without any sort of discrimination, such as:
• Right to Life.
• Civil and Political Rights.
• Right to Equality before the Law.
• Right to Freedom of Expression.
• Social, Cultural and Economic Rights.
• Right to Work.
• Right to Social Security.
• Right to Education.
• Right to Development and Self-Determination.
Tjhis human rights is guaranteed to all individuals, under the international human rights law, treaties, fundamental principles and other sources of international law. The international human rights law lays down some guidelines for all governments to act or not to act in a certain way.
Facts to Know About Human Rights
The international human rights law reflects the principle of universality of human rights. The principle was first declared in 1948, in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Since then, it has been reiterated in several international human rights conventions, resolutions and declarations.
In 1993, in the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, it was stated that the States should protect and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights, irrespective of their cultural, political and economic structure. Further, all States have ratified minimum one major human rights treaty. Further, nearly 80% of States have given their consent to four or more, main human rights treaties. These treaties create legal liability for the states.
Remember, human rights are universal, interdependent, inalienable, interconnected and indivisible. An individual cannot be deprived of his human rights. Deprivation of one right automatically affects the others. However, human rights of an individual may be violated in some special cases, such as a criminal can be deprived of right to liberty, as directed by a court.
• Right to Life.
• Civil and Political Rights.
• Right to Equality before the Law.
• Right to Freedom of Expression.
• Social, Cultural and Economic Rights.
• Right to Work.
• Right to Social Security.
• Right to Education.
• Right to Development and Self-Determination.
Tjhis human rights is guaranteed to all individuals, under the international human rights law, treaties, fundamental principles and other sources of international law. The international human rights law lays down some guidelines for all governments to act or not to act in a certain way.
Facts to Know About Human Rights
The international human rights law reflects the principle of universality of human rights. The principle was first declared in 1948, in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Since then, it has been reiterated in several international human rights conventions, resolutions and declarations.
In 1993, in the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, it was stated that the States should protect and promote fundamental freedoms and human rights, irrespective of their cultural, political and economic structure. Further, all States have ratified minimum one major human rights treaty. Further, nearly 80% of States have given their consent to four or more, main human rights treaties. These treaties create legal liability for the states.
Remember, human rights are universal, interdependent, inalienable, interconnected and indivisible. An individual cannot be deprived of his human rights. Deprivation of one right automatically affects the others. However, human rights of an individual may be violated in some special cases, such as a criminal can be deprived of right to liberty, as directed by a court.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Mientras mas feo mas hermozo
El Nuevo Peruano
Por Eddy Aguilar Saba
Las tendencias en el Perú han cambiado, ahora de cada 10 hombres 9 piensan constantemente en su estética. Estas tendencias han sacado a luz algunos de los prejuicios que existían en Latino América: el famoso dicho yo soy macho, yo no pienso en mi cuerpo, yo no pienso en mi cabello, eso es para las mujeres.
En un focus panel realizado en el 2010, indica que hay que aprovechar el momento, ya que un alto porcentaje de hombres en el Perú ahora se preocupa por su estética. Aunque todavía la mayoría de los hombres piensan que el uso de productos cosméticos son cosas de mujeres, un alto porcentaje de hombres es exigente para escoger productos como jabones, desodorantes, perfumes, cremas. Tampoco lo pensarían dos veces si tienen que mejorar o hacerse algún cambio. Se harían la cirugía plástica para solucionar el problema sin ningún problema y de inmediato. Con el tema del peso prefieren hacer ejercicios, pero si eso es un problema, también visitarían un cirujano plástico.
De las 15 categorías de productos, 6 los usan los hombres peruanos, a comparación de 7 en Latino América, lo cual indica un crecimiento bastante alto para los hombres peruanos. En general, los hombres tienden a pagar más por productos cosméticos, aunque este no es el caso del peruano cuando se compara con latino América, el peruano tiende a desembolsar menos.
Los hombres jóvenes son los que marcan esta tendencia, ya están acostumbrados a usar productos cosméticos, se preocupan más por lucir bien, y mientras crecen se va afianzando la tendencia a ser más exigentes, ya que ahora para ellos es normal usar productos que mejoren la apariencia. Es decir, que se sientan atractivos.
Aquí algunas actitudes de comprar:
1.- Tienden a comprar sus productos sin consultar a nadie.
2.- Prefieren que alguien se los compre.
3.- No les importa pagar más por los productos
4.- Tienden a ser impacientes con los resultados
5.- No les importa usar productos unisex
Por Eddy Aguilar Saba
Las tendencias en el Perú han cambiado, ahora de cada 10 hombres 9 piensan constantemente en su estética. Estas tendencias han sacado a luz algunos de los prejuicios que existían en Latino América: el famoso dicho yo soy macho, yo no pienso en mi cuerpo, yo no pienso en mi cabello, eso es para las mujeres.
En un focus panel realizado en el 2010, indica que hay que aprovechar el momento, ya que un alto porcentaje de hombres en el Perú ahora se preocupa por su estética. Aunque todavía la mayoría de los hombres piensan que el uso de productos cosméticos son cosas de mujeres, un alto porcentaje de hombres es exigente para escoger productos como jabones, desodorantes, perfumes, cremas. Tampoco lo pensarían dos veces si tienen que mejorar o hacerse algún cambio. Se harían la cirugía plástica para solucionar el problema sin ningún problema y de inmediato. Con el tema del peso prefieren hacer ejercicios, pero si eso es un problema, también visitarían un cirujano plástico.
De las 15 categorías de productos, 6 los usan los hombres peruanos, a comparación de 7 en Latino América, lo cual indica un crecimiento bastante alto para los hombres peruanos. En general, los hombres tienden a pagar más por productos cosméticos, aunque este no es el caso del peruano cuando se compara con latino América, el peruano tiende a desembolsar menos.
Los hombres jóvenes son los que marcan esta tendencia, ya están acostumbrados a usar productos cosméticos, se preocupan más por lucir bien, y mientras crecen se va afianzando la tendencia a ser más exigentes, ya que ahora para ellos es normal usar productos que mejoren la apariencia. Es decir, que se sientan atractivos.
Aquí algunas actitudes de comprar:
1.- Tienden a comprar sus productos sin consultar a nadie.
2.- Prefieren que alguien se los compre.
3.- No les importa pagar más por los productos
4.- Tienden a ser impacientes con los resultados
5.- No les importa usar productos unisex
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
10 Things That Will Go Mainstream in 2011
1. Paying With Your Cell Phone (Mobile Payments)
Need a caffeine fix, but forgot your wallet? No worries. Stroll into any Starbucks in America and you can now pay using your iPhone or Blackberry smartphone. The pay-by-phone service is free and works via a mobile app tied to your existing Starbucks card. In early 2010, Target launched a similar app where users can access their gift cards from their smartphones. And then there's Apple. Rumors abound that the next version iPhone and iPad will contain "near field communication" (NFC) chips which would allow users to make purchases by just waving their devices.
2. Tablets
A little more than a year ago, there was virtually no market for tablet PCs. Then came the iPad. Announced on Jan. 27, 2010 and debuting in April, Apple shipped 7.33 million of the devices by year's end. And while iPad sales etimates for 2011 vary widely, some analysts predict that as many as 65 million units could be shipped this year. And that's not to mention the flood of competitors entering the tablet computer market. Let the tablet wars begin!
3. Bolder Beers
Go bold or go home. That should be the mantra of today's brewers. A quarter of a century ago, the American beer landscape was dominated by light lagers. Then smaller brewers began gathering fans as they crafted beers with bolder flavors. Now Portfolio.com reports that in the first half of 2010 these craft breweries saw a 12% year-over-year growth, while the U.S. beer industry overall fell by 2.7%. Major brewers, like MillerCoors LLC, have taken notice.
4. Mobile TV
In 2010, for the first time ever, pay TV subscriptions in the U.S. declined. That downward trend is not likely to be reversed, and may even accelerate. As mobile TV providers improve their services, more and more users will find it less painful to cut those (cable) cords that bind. In addition, your options for TV-on-the-go will be plentiful this year.
5. Black Rice
CNN asks, is black rice the new brown? Like brown rice, it's full of antioxidant-rich bran, but it also contains "anthocyanins" which have been linked to reducing blood levels of LDL cholesterol and helping to fight heart disease.
6. Clean Eating
Wait, what is clean eating you ask? It's a nutritional lifestyle centered around eating foods that are minimally processed and as close to their original sources as possible. Once just the stuff of weight lifters, fitness competitors and health-food fanatics, this way of eating has reached a whole new audience thanks to people like Tosca Reno. At the age of 40, Tosca transformed herself with clean eating. She has since created a media empire based on her Eat-Clean Diet that includes 10 books, a magazine, a blog, a reality show, seminars and more.
7. Tube-Free Toilet Paper
In October 2010, Kimberly-Clark rolled out the first tube-free toilet paper product, under the Scott brand. This environmentally-friendly invention eliminates the wasteful brown cardboard tube which contributes up to 160 million pounds of trash in the U.S. each year. We expect this to catch on with consumers, and that competitors like Procter & Gamble, SCA and Georgia Pacific will follow suit and begin manufacturing their own tube-less brands.
8. Home Automation
It's worth noting that the technologies to link your home appliances with WiFi and smartphone apps have been around for many years, but 2011 may really be the year that it all comes together. For example, in January LG announced a new line of Thinq appliances that will allow users to control and monitor their oven, washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum from outside the home. Get ready, the future is now.
9. 4G Wireless
4G networks offer faster wireless broadband speeds than have been available before. The first claim to this speed was by the Clearwire/Sprint partnership. Next was T-Mobile. Verizon launched its 4G network (using Long Term Evolution or "LTE" technology) in a few dozen markets in late 2010.
10. Mobile Coupons
Cutting out and remembering to bring along paper coupons is tedious. Maybe that is why smartphone users are so receptive to receiving digital coupons. Regardless of the reason, mobile coupon spending is expected to reach $1 billion by 2011 (according to a Google/ComScore study). In addition, Daniel Schock, retail industry director for Google, tells WalletPop, "We can tell you searches for mobile coupons have more than doubled since 2008." With a primed-and-ready audience, we expect more and more retailers to adopt mobile
Need a caffeine fix, but forgot your wallet? No worries. Stroll into any Starbucks in America and you can now pay using your iPhone or Blackberry smartphone. The pay-by-phone service is free and works via a mobile app tied to your existing Starbucks card. In early 2010, Target launched a similar app where users can access their gift cards from their smartphones. And then there's Apple. Rumors abound that the next version iPhone and iPad will contain "near field communication" (NFC) chips which would allow users to make purchases by just waving their devices.
2. Tablets
A little more than a year ago, there was virtually no market for tablet PCs. Then came the iPad. Announced on Jan. 27, 2010 and debuting in April, Apple shipped 7.33 million of the devices by year's end. And while iPad sales etimates for 2011 vary widely, some analysts predict that as many as 65 million units could be shipped this year. And that's not to mention the flood of competitors entering the tablet computer market. Let the tablet wars begin!
3. Bolder Beers
Go bold or go home. That should be the mantra of today's brewers. A quarter of a century ago, the American beer landscape was dominated by light lagers. Then smaller brewers began gathering fans as they crafted beers with bolder flavors. Now Portfolio.com reports that in the first half of 2010 these craft breweries saw a 12% year-over-year growth, while the U.S. beer industry overall fell by 2.7%. Major brewers, like MillerCoors LLC, have taken notice.
4. Mobile TV
In 2010, for the first time ever, pay TV subscriptions in the U.S. declined. That downward trend is not likely to be reversed, and may even accelerate. As mobile TV providers improve their services, more and more users will find it less painful to cut those (cable) cords that bind. In addition, your options for TV-on-the-go will be plentiful this year.
5. Black Rice
CNN asks, is black rice the new brown? Like brown rice, it's full of antioxidant-rich bran, but it also contains "anthocyanins" which have been linked to reducing blood levels of LDL cholesterol and helping to fight heart disease.
6. Clean Eating
Wait, what is clean eating you ask? It's a nutritional lifestyle centered around eating foods that are minimally processed and as close to their original sources as possible. Once just the stuff of weight lifters, fitness competitors and health-food fanatics, this way of eating has reached a whole new audience thanks to people like Tosca Reno. At the age of 40, Tosca transformed herself with clean eating. She has since created a media empire based on her Eat-Clean Diet that includes 10 books, a magazine, a blog, a reality show, seminars and more.
7. Tube-Free Toilet Paper
In October 2010, Kimberly-Clark rolled out the first tube-free toilet paper product, under the Scott brand. This environmentally-friendly invention eliminates the wasteful brown cardboard tube which contributes up to 160 million pounds of trash in the U.S. each year. We expect this to catch on with consumers, and that competitors like Procter & Gamble, SCA and Georgia Pacific will follow suit and begin manufacturing their own tube-less brands.
8. Home Automation
It's worth noting that the technologies to link your home appliances with WiFi and smartphone apps have been around for many years, but 2011 may really be the year that it all comes together. For example, in January LG announced a new line of Thinq appliances that will allow users to control and monitor their oven, washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum from outside the home. Get ready, the future is now.
9. 4G Wireless
4G networks offer faster wireless broadband speeds than have been available before. The first claim to this speed was by the Clearwire/Sprint partnership. Next was T-Mobile. Verizon launched its 4G network (using Long Term Evolution or "LTE" technology) in a few dozen markets in late 2010.
10. Mobile Coupons
Cutting out and remembering to bring along paper coupons is tedious. Maybe that is why smartphone users are so receptive to receiving digital coupons. Regardless of the reason, mobile coupon spending is expected to reach $1 billion by 2011 (according to a Google/ComScore study). In addition, Daniel Schock, retail industry director for Google, tells WalletPop, "We can tell you searches for mobile coupons have more than doubled since 2008." With a primed-and-ready audience, we expect more and more retailers to adopt mobile
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Marijuana Soda.
How about a refreshing Canna Cola? A company based in Soquel, Calif., has created a new line of soda pot — or, marijuana soda — that it plans to launch in Colorado in February.
Canna Cola isn't the first marijuana soda on the market, but its designer Clay Butler, who said he has never used marijuana or smoked a cigarette but is a "firm believer that adults have an inalienable right to think, eat, smoke, drink, ingest, decorate, dress any way they choose," told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that his beverage collection will be distinguished by marketing. "You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he saidAccording to the Sentinel, Butler's soda pot line will include the "flagship cola drink Canna Cola, the Dr Pepper–like Doc Weed, the lemon-lime Sour Diesel, the grape-flavored Grape Ape and the orange-flavored Orange Kush."
The labels promise "12 mind blowing ounces," and each bottle will retail for roughly $10 to $15. Containing 35 to 65 milligrams of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, Canna Cola is substantially less potent than many of the other drinks currently on the market, the Sentinel reportsScott Riddell, founder of Diavolo Brands, which is marketing Canna Cola, likened it to a "light beer" and said "it's got a mild marijuana taste"
Canna Cola's makers plan to sell it to medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado starting next month, and hope to launch it in California by the spring. Looming, however, is a bill in Congress sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the so-called "Brownie Law,"
There are currently 15 states, as well as the District of Columbia, where medical marijuana is legal. However, the conditions of its legality differ from state to state, and marijuana for any purpose is still illegal under federal law.
Canna Cola isn't the first marijuana soda on the market, but its designer Clay Butler, who said he has never used marijuana or smoked a cigarette but is a "firm believer that adults have an inalienable right to think, eat, smoke, drink, ingest, decorate, dress any way they choose," told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that his beverage collection will be distinguished by marketing. "You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy and rinky-dink," he saidAccording to the Sentinel, Butler's soda pot line will include the "flagship cola drink Canna Cola, the Dr Pepper–like Doc Weed, the lemon-lime Sour Diesel, the grape-flavored Grape Ape and the orange-flavored Orange Kush."
The labels promise "12 mind blowing ounces," and each bottle will retail for roughly $10 to $15. Containing 35 to 65 milligrams of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, Canna Cola is substantially less potent than many of the other drinks currently on the market, the Sentinel reportsScott Riddell, founder of Diavolo Brands, which is marketing Canna Cola, likened it to a "light beer" and said "it's got a mild marijuana taste"
Canna Cola's makers plan to sell it to medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado starting next month, and hope to launch it in California by the spring. Looming, however, is a bill in Congress sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the so-called "Brownie Law,"
There are currently 15 states, as well as the District of Columbia, where medical marijuana is legal. However, the conditions of its legality differ from state to state, and marijuana for any purpose is still illegal under federal law.
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