幸せが苦手？

Home Is Where the Harm Is
By JOAN S. MEIER
Published: March 5, 2013

Data from signatory countries show that the majority of abductors are mothers with primary or joint custody, and a majority of them report fleeing abuse. In short, many abductions are actually flights to safety, necessitated by the home countries’ failure to protect victims from domestic violence and child abuse. In these cases, rather than returning children to loving and safe parents, the convention actually reunifies children and mothers with their abusers.

Research by Jeffrey Edleson, the dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues shows that courts typically order children returned to fathers known to have physically abused the mother, even though such violence is an indicator of significant risk to children.

While Mr. Edleson’s research found that some courts did not order a return when direct child abuse was absolutely proved, in other cases courts have been unwilling to sort through abuse allegations of any kind, preferring to send such cases, and the reported victims, back to the country they fled for resolution.

Lost in the calls for blanket returns of “abducted” children is the fact that the convention itself prioritizes children’s best interests, and therefore does not require return in every case. Return is not required when the left-behind parent does not have a “right of custody,” where there is grave psychological or physical risk to the child, or where the child will be returned to an “intolerable situation.”

But too often, the convention’s nuanced awareness of the potential harms of returns has been ignored by courts and the legislative and diplomatic supporters of return at all costs. In one widely reported case, a California court sent the son of an American mother back to his European father despite acknowledging that he faced a “grave risk” of harm. (The child continues to suffer overseas.)



The federal government should recognize that many abductions are actually means of keeping children safe.

　これはわりに重要論文というか、記事ですね。
　日本も、ハーグの子供関連法に署名するわけだが、要は、子供の利益が最重要視されなくてはいけないということ。欧米の議論は、親の権利を強調しすぎるきらいがある。もっとも、日本の場合、もう片親と面接したり、教育を受けたりするのは、子供のためになるにも関わらず、子供の親に会う権利が十分満足されていないかんもある。

　いずれにせよ、日本の裁判所で、ＤＶが認められて、返還しない場合、かならず、ＣＮＮやＮＹＴ、あるいは主要なテレビ局によるアメリカ愛国主義的な日本バッシングがあるだろうが、そのときでも、この記事は参考になろう。



White House: Secret spying on Americans immune to lawsuits
Published time: March 07, 2013 12:07
AFP Photo / Timothy A. Clary

Conflict, Court, Human rights, Security, USA
After the US Supreme Court upheld the right of the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans’ communications with foreigners without a warrant, the White House seeks to quash a similar lawsuit citing the plaintiff’s inability to provide evidence.

Last week the justices ruled 5-4 against the American Civil Liberties Union and others who sought to nullify a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. The provision allows the National Security Agency (NSA) to intercept emails and phone calls of Americans as long as they are suspected of communicating with someone outside of the country.

Judges ruled that the ACLU et al were not eligible to complain because they could not submit evidence that they were targeted by the surveillance program.

Now the White House is seeking to quash another case against the same NSA eavesdropping program, citing the previous ruling as a precedent, reports Wired.

The lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation accuses the US government of secretly monitoring all of Americans’ electronic communications with the assistance of nation’s telecom companies. The EFF says this violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects US citizens from unreasonable searches.

A filing the government submitted on Wednesday it says the previous Supreme Court ruling reaffirms that “a plaintiff bears the burden of establishing standing through the submission of actual evidence, not speculation about present or future injuries. In this case, any such evidence is properly protected by the Government’s state secrets privilege assertion.”

　アメリカでは令状もなく、外国人、アメリカ人の通信の秘密を害することができるんですね。
　おかしいじゃないか、と訴えたが、当事者適格がない、として、却下。





Palestinian minors face abuse, threats, ill-treatment in Israeli detention – UN
Published time: March 06, 2013 14:38
Edited time: March 06, 2013 15:28
Children in Israeli Military detention
Observations and Recommendations

　投石するパレスチナの少年たちがイスラエルの警官・軍人から虐待。

　イスラエル・パレスチナ問題は、もっと、西側諸国が注目すべき。

Photo Gallery: On Rats and Raiders - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International via kwout

Real Estate Locusts: Developers Cash in on Europe's Poorest

In recent years, international investors have poured billions into Berlin to buy cheap real estate, including buildings in need of much repair and lacking modern amenities. Such a building can be found in the back courtyard of Scharnweberstrasse 111 in Reinickendorf, a northwestern district of Berlin.


Narghita, a member of the Roma ethnic group from Romania, lives in one of the building's apartments: a one-room unit of 33 square meters (255 square feet) for €705 ($915) a month, excluding heat. The toilet hasn't worked for weeks, and her three children urinate in the bathtub. She found her furniture in the garbage and has poisoned the rats in the apartment.

Narghita has always paid her rent in cash to Marcus Harstel, who until recently managed some apartments for the owners. He chairs an association that brokers run-down property owned by international investors to the poor and disadvantaged: ex-convicts, the homeless and immigrants, particularly Roma and Sinti. The conditions on some of the floors at Scharnweberstrasse 111 are like those in a refugee camp, with multiple parties sharing the few intact bathrooms.


In reality, however, Harstel was providing real estate speculators with undemanding tenants, who live in squalid conditions under the threat of violence and eviction and have few places to turn for help. This ruthless business model is widespread in Berlin, one of many cities in Europe where poor immigrants go.

ディベロッパーに搾取される外国人移民など貧民窟ーーードイツ





Immigrants could be forced to pay a cash bond to enter Britain, to ensure they leave when their visa expires
Will pay ‘entry fee’ to guarantee that they will not be a burden on taxpayers
Cash would be repaid but only if they have not drawn on services
Those already in UK, would be required to put up a sum into 'thousands'
By JAMES CHAPMAN
PUBLISHED: 01:04 GMT, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 07:42 GMT, 7 March 2013

Immigrants would have to put up a cash bond to enter Britain under radical reforms to be unveiled by Theresa May.
They will be required to pay the ‘entry fee’ as part of a guarantee that they will not be a burden on taxpayers and will leave when their visa expires.
The cash would be repaid when migrants leave, but only if they demonstrate that they have not drawn on services, such as non-urgent NHS care or other elements of the welfare state.

外国人移民に保証金を科して、帰国する場合、国への支払いをちょろまかした場合はそこから没収する制度を提案ーーー外国人にやさしいというイギリス。

　

'I'm Barbie Man': Collector spends $80,000 and fills four-bedrooms on 3,000 Barbies (and he says he still wants twice as many) | Mail Online via kwout

　バービー好きが昂じてこうなった、と。



Five-year-old who fell unconscious outside medical centre was turned away 'because he wasn't a patient'
Natalie Midgley's son Junior, 5, collapsed outside Petersgate Medical Centre
But staff said there was nothing they could do and told her to call 999
She said: 'No-one even came out to help us - I was terrified he would die'
Had an agonising 10-minute wait before the ambulance arrived
By ANNA HODGEKISS
PUBLISHED: 10:10 GMT, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 13:55 GMT, 7 March 2013

デリメの、冷遇する病院シリーズ



Primary school bans cops and robbers because of the 'harmful effects of imaginary weapons on young minds'
School chiefs at Worcesters Primary in Enfield outlawed the games
But parents at the 470-pupil school have reacted with outrage
Headteacher says: 'We discourage children from playing violent games'
By LEON WATSON
PUBLISHED: 13:11 GMT, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 14:09 GMT, 7 March 2013

'My son was told that he was not allowed to play with imaginary guns or weapons in the playground by his teacher.

cops and robbers

って、洋の東西あるのだな、とおもったが、わたしらが小さい頃やっていた　”警どろ”は　地域によるのかもしれないが、銃は使わなかった。ま、日本の、おまわりさん銃をつかわないかもしれない。

学校で禁止されて、論争に。イギリス。

Mother knows best: Touching snaps show a whole host of patient parents bonding with their boisterous babies in the animal kingdom | Mail Online via kwout

動物の母子のかわいらしい写真集



Rated T for Tolerance

'Don’t propagate your hate, because I have a higher standard on who you date.'


'I’m not here to rally against that which the government legislates, I simply don’t support a mind that is reprobate.
'Homosexuality is not innate. It is not a genetic trait. It cannot replicate the love between a man and a woman in which God did indeed create.'



'Now I can’t dictate one’s life and who they call a soul mate, I simply don’t want them to bake in a lake of fire for the name of love sake.
'Despite your opinion, it is always a choice with whom you fornicate.'



'The media tries to educate that this behavior is something we must tolerate, using propaganda like movies and TV shows to indoctrinate.
'This is not to discriminate but demonstrate that same-sex relations devastate the health of many.'


'In the end there are two gates',

'One that is golden and one that separates.
'So what's it going to be - your mate or your fate?'

クリスチャン少女による”善意の”反ゲイラップ

こうして、反ゲイが地域に根付いた宗教によって支持される場合、その信念はかなり強固のものになるんでしょうね。
欧米では、反ゲイ犯罪、虐めが極端になる場合が多く、その反面、それゆえ、反ー反ゲイ法、ゲイの権利が社会的に認知されやすいのだろう、というのが私見。

もっとも、この世界の潮流からして、日本でももっと問題にすべき。世界で問題があるから、というより、日本でも差別的な意識や制度があり、問題があるから。







Part Three: Responding to the Insult

1Ask them what they want. Sometimes, simply asking the other person, "Are you trying to hurt me?" is enough to make them back down.
2Change the subject. For example, if the person insults your dress sense, you could respond with a nonchalant, "Yes, that's true and maybe you can tell me where you shop for your clothes?" This will derail the other person's train of thought.
3Agree with them in a joking way. When a person accuses you of being fat, you might respond with, "Are you joking? I'm a whale!" When a person accuses you of being stupid, you might say, "You can do better than that--I'm so dumb it took me 2 hours to watch 60 Minutes!" Remember that this person is hoping to make you feel bad and by showing them that you don't care, you leave them powerless.

侮辱に対する応答の仕方。
あ）どうしたいのか、尋ねる　「私を傷つけようとしているの？｝
い）話を変える。「ひどい服｝「たしかに、で、君の服はどこで買ったの？」
う）茶化して同意する　「デブ！」「デブなんてもんじゃないトドだよ」「馬鹿！」「そうでんねん、２時間ドラマを４時間かけて見るほどさかい」


う）の冗談で応じるというのは面白い。

可笑しさ、とは、１）規範・期待違反行為　２）と同時に　３）（１）を許容　という三つの契機によりなっているから、馬鹿にするという行為（１）を受け止める（３）ことによって、かえって、１）の行為を価値低下させる機能があるわけですね。