WARISAN - JASA BONDA

JASA BONDA

Klip video ini mengandungi lirik lagu Jasa Bonda yang merupakan nyanyian Kumpulan Warisan. Lagu ini menyampaikan mesej kepada kita tentang jasa dan pengorbanan seorang ibu.

IHSAN-IHSAN SEORANG IBU

Lirik lagu ini menggambarkan pengorbanan yang dilakukan oleh seorang ibu yang bukan setakat menunaikan tanggungjawab atau kewajipannya dalam memelihara seseorang anak. Seseorang ibu(atau bapa) bekerja keras untuk membekalkan anak-anak mereka dengan keperluan asas yang diperlukan. Ibu(bapa) bekerja siang dan malam sedangkan kita mempunyai masa unuk berehat dan tidur, hanya untuk kebahagiaan kita. Dalam video lagu ini juga terdapat petikan puisi Usman Awang yang menyampaikan mesej bahawa ada juga ibu yang bekerja keras sehingga tidak mempedulikan situasi tempat kerja yang bertentangan dengan hak asasi mereka. bagi mereka, kebahagiaan anak mereka yang menjadi tumpuan utama dan mereka sanggup mengerah diri demi mencapai matlamat tersebut. Kita seharusnya sedar bahawa ibu( bapa) yang benar-benar mencintai anak mereka tidak memarahi anak mereka yang melakukan kesalahan kerana bagi mereka marah adalah sejenis 'rawatan' kepada sikap sesetengah anak-anak supaya dapat membentuk bakal pemimpin yang berkaliber (situasi ini tidak sama dalam kes penderaan kanak2 yang sememangnya tidak mempunyai nilai kasih sayang tetapi sebaliknya).

HAK SEORANG IBU

Setiap ibu (bapa) yang menghabiskan kehidupannya dalam memberikan kebahagiaan kepada anak-anak mereka haruslah dilindungi daripada sebarangan pengabaian atau penindasan. Setiap anak harus sedar akan jasa ibu(bapa) kita dan berusaha membalas jasa tersebut dengan memberi kebahagiaan kepada mereka. Anak yang lupa akan jasa ibu bapa menjadi punca utama ibu bapa diabaikan apabila mereka merangka usia tua dan tidak berdaya. Sememangnya seorang anak yang mengenang jasa ibu bapanya akan berusaha dengan lebih tekun untuk menjaga kebajikan dan kebahagiaan ibu bapa mereka.

TELL ME WHY

HAK-HAK ASASI KANAK-KANAK

Hak-hak asasi manusia yang disentuh dalam klip lagu ini adalah berkaitan dengan kanak-kanak. Penulis skrip lagu ini memfokuskan kepada hak-hak asasi yang sepatutnya seseorang kanak-kanak ada di dunia ini selaraskan dengan yang disenaraikan dalam Artikel 25 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Antara hak-hak yang disentuh adalah :

• Dilindungi dari sebarang pengabaian, penindasan, diskriminasi dan eksploitasi. 
• Mendapat keperluan asas seperti pakaian, tempat tinggal, makanan dan keselamatan. 
• Diberi perlindungan. 
• Tinggal di dalam komuniti dan persekitaran yang aman damai. 
• Dipertahankan dan diberi bantuan

Klip video ini menggambarkan setiap kanak-kanak yang lahir di dunia ini tidak diberi layanan yang sama. Klip ini boleh menjadi inspirasi kepada individu untuk menyiapkan dirinya untuk menghulurkan bantuan kepada yang perlu dan berdiri mempertahankan hak-hak mereka yang ditindas. 

WIKILEAKS COLLATERAL MURDER

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0) 

Klip video 'WIKILEAKS Collateral Murder' menggambarkan serangan melalui udara yang dilakukan oleh tentera AS ke atas dua wartawan Reuters dan masyarakat tempatan di New Baghdad. Selain itu, terdapat kanak-kanak yang tercedera akibat serangan tersebut. Pihak tentera tidak mendedahkan bagaimana kakitangan Reuters terbunuh, dan menyatakan bahawa mereka tidak tahu bagaimana kanak-kanak cedera. Selepas permintaan oleh Reuters, kejadian itu disiasat dan tentera AS itu membuat kesimpulan bahawa tindakan tentera adalah selaras dengan undang-undang konflik bersenjata dan " Rules of Engagement". WIKILEAKS telah memperolehi rakaman video dan dokumen sokongan pemberi maklumat "whistleblowers" tentera. Kesahihan maklumat dan video juga disahkan. 

Setelah menganalisis kandungan video dan daripada sumber-sumber lain, saya mendapati perbuatan dan tindakan tentera AS dalam video ini mencabul hak-hak asasi manusia yang disenaraikan dalam deklarasi. Analisa tersebut diringkaskan dalam gambar yang dilampirkan.

KENALILAH HAK ASASI MANUSIA

Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks4a_CRDoE4

ideo ini membicarakan apakah hak asasi manusia oleh Faisal Tehrani. Pada pendapat beliau, dua tunjang hak asasi manusia adalah hormat dan maruah. Maka, sebagai seorang manusia amatlah penting untuk menyedari kepentingan kedua-dua elemen tersebut dalam kehidupan. Beliau juga menyatakan hak asasi manusia bukanlah sesuatu agama yang baru tetapi digalakkan dalam kesemua agama di mana semua agama memupuk keamanan dan keharmonian. 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1

Article 1 : All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Violation of Article 1 in North Korea

“North Korea prioritizes the masses before the individual. North Korea also discriminates against people based on their genealogical background…those of the ‘hostile class’ face direct discrimination.”

- Survey of North Korean Human Rights Conditions 2008

“One’s songbun (class background) is either good or bad, and detailed records are kept by party cadre and security officials of the degree of goodness or badness of everyone’s songbun. There is really no way to escape one’s songbun.” The favored group constitutes about 25 to 30 percent of the population. “Ranked below them in descending order are forty-seven distinct groups in what must be the most classdifferentiated society in the world today….North Korea’s population can be broken down into three main groups, roughly equal in size. The preferred class…is given every advantage; with hard work, individuals in this group can easily rise to the top. The middle 40 percent of the population-the ordinary people-hope for a lucky break…There is no hope, however, of a college education or a professional career. The bottom 30 percent of the population –the ‘undesirables’ are treated like a pariah class; all doors to advancement, the army, the higher schools of education are closed to them.”

- Kim Il Sung’s North Korea by Helen Louise Hunter

North Korea practices a hereditary caste-based system to rank its citizens based on their family political background. From the study, I learnt that the classes will determine the precise mix of the privileges, punishments or surveillance. Also, this system creates a form of slave labor for a third of North Korea's population of 23 million citizens and loyalty-bound servants out of the remainder. All this clearly show us that in North Korea, all human beings are not born free and equal in dignity and rights. This indicates the violation of Article 1 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There has been many recommendations proposed by Collin in his report issued by the Washington-based Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, but the most important is a general one, that we recognize the essential nature of the Kim family regime. 

Anomie

Anomie

Anomie merupakan perkataan yang diperkenalkan olek pakar sosiologi Emile Durkheim dalam bukunya The Division of Labour in Society. Anomie berasal dari perkataan Greek iaitu a yang bermaksud tanpa dan noma yang bermaksud peraturan.

Emile Durkheim

 Menurut Durkheim, anomie adalah situasi di mana norma sesuatu masyarakat menjadi keliru, tidak jelas atau tidak wujud dan ini menyebabkan berlaku perubahan dalam sikap sesetengah individu dalam masyarakat tersebut. Beliau juga percaya anomie adalah punca utama berlakunya pembunuhan diri. Menurut Durkheim, berlaku perubahan dalam struktur masyarakat yang berkembang dari mudah ke lebih kompleks. Masyarakat, awalnya, mempunyai pemahamam dan tujuan yang sama dan perubahan dalam struktur masyarakat menyebabkan terputusnya hubungan sesame mereka. Dengan terputusnya hubungan sesama mereka maka norma sesuatu masyarakat tidak lagi mengawal perlakuan sesuatu individu dalam masyarakat tersebut. 

Perubahan(sama ada baik atau buruk) yang berlaku secara drastic ini menyebabkan tidak ada norma masyarakat yang menjadi panduan hidup untuk seseorang individu dalam masyarakat tersebut. Durkheim sedar bahawa perubahan drastic dalam masyarakat, misalnya kemelesetan ekonomi, menyebabkan berlaku anomie(kehilangan norma masyarakat sebagai panduan) yang membawa kepada situasi seperti jenayah, kes bunuh diri dan perubahan sikap

HERO OF THE WEEK 6

A Change Is Gonna Come

"A Change Is Gonna Come"

by Sam Cooke






I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and just like the river I've been running ever since

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will

It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will

I go to the movie and I go down town
Somebody keep telling me don't hang around

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will

Then I go to my brother
And I say, "Brother, help me please."
But he winds up knockin' me
Back down on my knees

There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on

It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon' come, oh yes it will

Song video :

HERO OF THE WEEK 5

Get Up, Stand Up

Get Up, Stand Up
by Bob Marley
from the album, Legend

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!
Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:

Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!

For the video, please click on :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg97JiBn1kE

HERO OF THE WEEK 4

Universal Human Rights

Let's watch this video to know more about the universal human rights!

HERO OF THE WEEK 3

Auschwitz

Have you ever heard about this place??? Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps! It's located in the Southern Poland. 

It's the place with the darkest history that I have ever been. Let's us get to know some facts about the place. 

1. In 4 1/2 years, more than 1 million people, by some accounts, lost their lives at Auschwitz.

2. About 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.

3.  Auschwitz was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940.

4. The Nazis settled on gassing their victims. Stationary gas chambers could kill 2,000 people at once. Once in the chambers, about one-third of the victims died immediately, though death could take up to 20 minutes.

5. About 60 million Reichmarks, equivalent to £125m today, was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

 

Facts to know about Dr Zakir Naik

Dr.Zakir Naik is everywhere today!

Every social medias were reporting about the controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik. This early morning, when I browsed through my Facebook page, the newsfeed was loaded with Dr Zakir Naik's issue. First time, I'm hearing his name and went on to search more about him. Here are some facts I learnt about him today. 

1. Dr Zakir Abdul Karim is an international orator on Islam and Comparative Religion. He was born on October 18, 1965, in Mumbai (Bombay at the time).

2. He is a medical doctor who graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Mumbai. In 1991, Dr Zakir started working in the field of Dawah and founded the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF).

3. He is popular for his critical analysis and strategic answers to challenging questions posed by his audiences during his public talks.

4. Dr Zakir clarifies Islamic viewpoints and clears misconceptions about Islam, using the Qur’an, Hadith and other religious scriptures as a basis, along with scientific facts.

5. According to Islamic Research Foundation’s website, in the last 20 years, Dr Zakir Naik has delivered over 2,000 public talks across the globe.

Among the countries he had explored are United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Arab Saudi, Australia, New Zealand, Afrika Selatan, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapura, Brunei, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and Maldives.

6. In 2012, Dr Zakir held a programme in Malaysia. It took place in Johor Bahru, Universiti Teknologi Mara in Shah Alam, Kuantan and Putra World Trade Centre.

7. In fact, in March 2012, his public talk in Kishangani, India was attended by over one million people, being one of the largest gatherings in the world for any religious lecture by one speaker.

8. He has also received numerous awards from leaders around the world. On 2013, the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia conferred a Ma'al Hijrah Distinguished Personality award to Dr Zakir in a ceremony at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre. The award was presented by Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah.

HERO OF THE WEEK 2

HEGEL'S LAW

There are two types of laws, first law of nature and one more is law of rights. 

Both of them are simply there. Thus, what are the difference between them?

LAW OF NATURE

Law of nature are valid as they are. They cannot be gainsaid. The laws are true and only our ideas about them can be false. Our knowledge does not anything to them, but only our knowledge of them expands. In nature, the highest truth is the law itself. 

LAW OF RIGHTS

Law of rights , we have to know and acquainted with them. They are different, not absolute and handed down by men. Men maintain that he has the standard of right within himself. In right, a thing is not valid because it is. but everyone demands that it shall conform to his standard. 

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HERO OF THE WEEK

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King - Civil Rights Activist

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King. He is both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist. He had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. 

 

In January 1957, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and 60 ministers and civil rights activists founded the  to harness the moral authority and organizing SCLC, power of black churches. It was to conduct non-violent protests to promote civil rights reform. His participation in the organization gave him a base of operation throughout the South, and also a national platform. This organization played an important role to give African Americans a voice was to enfranchise them in the voting process.

In 1959, with the help of the American Friends Service Committee, and inspired by Gandhi's success with non-violent activism, Martin Luther King visited Gandhi's birthplace in India. The trip affected him in a deeply profound way, increasing his commitment to America's civil rights struggle. African-American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who had studied Gandhi's teachings, became one of King's associates and counseled him to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence. Rustin served as King's mentor and advisor throughout his early activism and was the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But Rustin was also a controversial figure at the time, being a homosexual with alleged ties to the Communist Party, USA. Though his counsel was invaluable to King, many of his other supporters urged him to distance himself from Rustin.

In February 1960, a group of African-American students began what became known as the "sit-in" movement in Greensboro, North Carolina. The students would sit at racially segregated lunch counters in the city's stores. When asked to leave or sit in the colored section, they just remained seated, subjecting themselves to verbal and sometimes physical abuse. The movement quickly gained traction in several other cities. In April 1960, the SCLC held a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina with local sit-in leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged students to continue to use nonviolent methods during their protests. Out of this meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed and for a time, worked closely with the SCLC. By August of 1960, the sit-ins had been successful in ending segregation at lunch counters in 27 southern cities.

By 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was gaining national notoriety. He returned to Atlanta to become co-pastor with his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church, but also continued his civil rights efforts. On October 19, 1960, King and 75 students entered a local department store and requested lunch-counter service but were denied. When they refused to leave the counter area, King and 36 others were arrested. Realizing the incident would hurt the city's reputation, Atlanta's mayor negotiated a truce and charges were eventually dropped. But soon after, King was imprisoned for violating his probation on a traffic conviction. The news of his imprisonment entered the 1960 presidential campaign, when candidate John F. Kennedy made a phone call to Coretta Scott King. Kennedy expressed his concern for King's harsh treatment for the traffic ticket and political pressure was quickly set in motion. King was soon released.

Human Rights Definition

Views from others :

1. Rhoda E. Howard ( Sociologist )

" Human rights are rights that one holds merely by virtue of being human.  Human rights are equivalent to individual rights.  All human beings hold all human rights equally (race, gender, religion...)  Deprived only under very limited and prescribed conditions (eg. criminal conviction or necessities of state power in warfare)"

2. Louis Henkin (Former president of the American Society of International Law)

" The idea of human rights is related, but not equivalent, to justice, good and democracy. It is a political idea with a moral foundation which defines the relationship that should exist between the individual and society"

3. Thomas Buergenthal (Former judge of the International Court of Justice)

  

  He defines human rights by reference to the law which governs human rights. He refers to “the law which deals with the protection of individuals and groups against violations by governments.

SURUHANJAYA HAK ASASI MANUSIA MALAYSIA

JOM MENGENALI SUHAKAM !

Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia (SUHAKAM) merupakan sebuah badan yang ditubuhkan di Malaysia pada tahun 1999 di bawah Akta Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia Malaysia.

Fungsi SUHAKAM :

• Untuk memupuk kesedaran dan menyediakan pendidikan yang berhubung hak asasi manusia;
• Untuk menasihati dan membantu Kerajaan dalam merumuskan perundangan dan arahan dan tatacara pentadbiran dan mengesyorkan langkah-langkah yang perlu diambil;
• Untuk mengesyorkan kepada Kerajaan berkenaan dengan penandatanganan atau penyertaan dalam perjanjian dan suratcara antarabangsa yang lain dalam bidang hak asasi manusia;
• Untuk menyiasat aduan berkenaan dengan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia.

SUHAKAM memiliki laman webnya sendiri di mana warga Malaysia boleh mendapatkan maklumat yang dikehendaki dalam sekelip mata. Untuk mengenali sejarah dan aktiviti SUHAKAM, layarilah laman webnya pada http://www.suhakam.org.my/ms/.

HUMAN RIGHTS

WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?

We have been hearing so many people talking about human rights. What is human rights? How to define it? So, let's see what are the definitions proposed by different parties!
 
Human Rights Commission of New Zealand defines human rights as the basic rights and freedoms that every person in the world should have. There are two main types of human rights – civil and political rights, and social, cultural and economic rights.

Some tell that human  rights are based on the principle of respect for the individual. Their fundamental assumption is that each person is a moral and rational being who deserves to be treated with dignity. They are called human rights because they are universal. Whereas nations or specialized groups enjoy specific rights that apply only to them, human rights are the rights to which everyone is entitled—no matter who they are or where they live—simply because they are alive. 

To be simple, human rights are the rights you have simply because you are a human!