Zaštiti dete od oca narkomana!

Roditelj narkoman u Srbiji može neometano da ugrožava život svog deteta, čak i kada ima sudski izrečenu privremenu meru. O tome kako treba da se poboljša zakonska regulativa brinuće se jedna druga priča. Ova priča se, pak, tiče onih koji o primeni postojećih zakona brinu. Ili bi bar trebalo da brinu.

Narkomani u Srbiji mogu neometano da ugrožavaju živote svoje dece, čak i kada ima sudski izrečenu privremenu meru. O tome kako treba da se poboljša zakonska regulativa brinuće se jedna druga priča. Ova priča se, pak, tiče onih koji o primeni postojećih zakona brinu. Ili bi bar trebalo da brinu. Ovo je priča o državnim organima, koji nismo sigurni da imaju sluha, da dovoljno zaštite majku i njeno dete od oca narkomana. Ne želeći da prejudiciramo dalje postupke nadležnih službi, ovim putem samo skrećemo pažnju javnosti na ovakve slučajeve.

Ko?

Jelena je majka četvorogodišnjeg deteta. Od supruga-narkomana, razvela se zbog njegove narkomanije posle tri godine suživota i preselila daleko od rodnog grada, kako bi otpočela novi život, sa novim čovekom.

Problemi kao da su tek tada počeli. Bivši suprug ne namerava da se tek tako pomiri sa činjenicom, da dete može da viđa, samo jednom u dve nedelje, i to vikendom. Dolazi i preti, pod dejstvom opijatima, a sve na šta Jelena i njeno dete nailaze, od zvaničnih službi, nije obećavajuće za njihov miran san.

Šta?

Članom 173. zakona o krivičnom postupku, koji se nalazi u glavi 11, o Podnescima i zapisnicima, "Sud je dužan da svoj ugled i ugled stranaka i drugih učesnika postupka zaštiti od uvrede, pretnje i svakog drugog napada".
Sud da radi svoje, policija da radi svoje!

Gde?

Ova porodica je utočište našla u jednoj od beogradskih, perifernih,opština. U relativno maloj sredini, ne nailaze na razumevanje okoline, niti bilo kakvu eventualnu zaštitu.

Kako pomoći?

Priključi se ovoj akciji za isticanje neophodnosti zaštite majke i njenog četvorogodišnjeg sina, ali ne tek tako, "reda radi, jer je ideja humana", već da bi ideja bila materijalizovana - odnosno da mlada majka i njeno dete dobiju adekvatnu pomoć. Zaštitu.

Kada?

Pomoć je prava - samo ako je pravovremena i potpuna. Odgovor na pitanje "kada?", i tebi, i sudu i policiji i institucijama za socijalni rad, je - ODMAH.

My links 11/02/2008

• Global Voices Online » Corporations Agree to Standards for Internet Freedom

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  • The Global Network Initiative has been launched. The Initiative is a code of conduct for corporations on privacy and free speech created by a coalition of human rights, media development and research organizations, and Internet and communications companies such as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Its goal: to ensure that ICT companies acknowledge their “responsibility to respect and protect the freedom of expression and privacy rights of their users.”

    
    

    
    

    The Initiative was launched as a response to corporate participation in online censorship, especially in China. It took more than two years to craft, and much of that time was spent articulating a set of principles and devising mechanisms to encourage compliance acceptable both to human rights groups and to businesses.

    
    

    
    

    Rebecca MacKinnon, one of Global Voices’ founders, participated in the working group, and writes in RConversation:

    
    

    
    

    
    

    A few people have called me asking “does this thing have any teeth” or “is this thing more than just a figleaf for companies to get congress off their backs?

    
    

    Organizations like Human Rights Watch, Human Rights in China, Human Rights First, and the Committee to Protect Journalists would not be putting their reputations behind this thing if they didn't think it was meaningful.

    
    

    That said, the initiative must prove its value in the next couple of years by implementing a meaningful and sufficiently tough process by which companies' adherence to the principles will be evaluated and benchmarked.

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My links 09/25/2008

• \\\\\\ barcamp Hong Kong 2008 //////

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  • BarCamp was born in Palo Alto, California in 2005. In just three years, it has become an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by the attendees — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

    
    

    Last year's event drew in 100 participants from all walks of the Internet in Hong Kong; budding entrepreneurs, web designers, cutting edge programmers, mobile experts, game developers & designers, academics, bloggers, social media specialists, investors and media owners.

    
    

    This year we are expecting over 200 people at the full-day event, hosted at Oxford House in Taikoo Place, on the conference floor of Turner International Asia Pacific, owner of Cartoon Networks and CNN News.

    
    

    There will be five large conference rooms, two lounge areas, a coffee room and a bar. Presentations can be on any topic you like as long as it is about the Internet and people are wiling to listen. You are free to speak in Cantonese, Putonghua or English.

    
    

    Food, drinks and free wifi will be provided.

    
    

    Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

    
    Come, speak and learn at BarCamp Hong Kong!

My links 09/21/2008

• RConversation: Global Voices, generative media structures.. and the end of nationalism?

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  • Global Voices, generative media structures.. and the end of nationalism?

    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    Photo by Neha Viswanathan: A small subset of the Global Voices bloggers who met in Budapest.
    

    
    
    

    
    (Apologies in advance for the length of this post. I've decided to subject my readers to this even-longer-than-usual "brain dump" because at least a few people out there are interested in some of the ideas related to global participatory media, and I'd like feed back on some of the outstanding questions faced by Global Voices.)
    

    
    
    

    
    At the end of last week's Global Voices Summit, one of our Middle Eastern bloggers came up to me and said: "nationalism is dead for me now." He said that ten years ago he was a strong nationalist. Being a blogger and debating issues with other people online over the past few years has greatly weakened that feeling. Now after four days hanging out with bloggers from all over the world, nationalism makes no sense to him any more.
    

    
    
    

    
    (For full accounts of the summit, see David Sasaki's excellent overview, Ethan Z's great series of posts,  our media digest, the summit blog, technorati, google blog search, Rezwan's excellent roundup of summit bloggers, etc.)
    

• New satellite to give Google Maps unprecedented resolution

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  • Google has taken the war over exclusive web content into space. Not directly, of course—the satellite that was recently launched into space on a rocket bearing the Google logo was the result of a joint venture between a commercial satellite imaging provider and the department of defense. In return for undisclosed terms, Google got two considerations: its logo on the side of the launch vehicle, and exclusive use of the mapping images that the satellite produces.

    
    

    
    The partnerships in the new satellite are extensive. The hardware was built by General Dynamics and put in orbit by Boeing; the funding for the project came in part from a commercial satellite imaging company, Geoeye. The rest of the funding came from the Defense Department's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which provides map-based intelligence resources. The launch took place yesterday from the Air Force's Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
    

My links 09/04/2008

• Global Voices Online » Blogger of the Week: Siniša Boljanović

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  • Siniša Boljanović had never blogged when he volunteered to report on Serbian blogs for Global Voices in 2007. He read an article about Global Voices in a Serbian online magazine and was so hooked on the idea of contributing, he taught himself to write in English and to use Wordpress for the first time in spite of one additional obstacle: Siniša is blind.

    
    

    Among the topics he has blogged about in the past year are, atrocities of war in his region, the arrest of Radovan Karadžić, human rights, Serbian politics, and Kosovo's independence claims.

    
    

    Siniša lives with his family in a town called Novi Sad, which is well-known for the EXIT music festival. He is a graduate of Serbian language and literature at Belgrade University. He does not have a personal blog, but is planning to create one in the future. More urgent are his plans to help start a new Lingua website, Global Voices in Serbian.

    
    

    In his spare time, Siniša likes reading books and sometimes writes short stories. Before he became blind, he liked to play tennis. These days he is a fan of Serbian tennis players Novak Djoković, Janko Tipsarević, Ana Ivanović and Jelena Janković, and also likes Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova.

My links 07/30/2008

• Jasmina Tešanović: Who was Dragan David Dabic? - Boing Boing

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    Who was Dragan David Dabic?
    

    
    For me this incredible story is only beginning. Soon Radovan Karadzic will be safely in Hague behind bars, rambling his strident defense just like his predecessor Slobodan Milosevic.
    

    
    We here in downtown Belgrade are left with this mysterious ridiculous character, Dragan David Dabic, who will vanish like a soap opera hero. I am sincerely afraid that "Dabic," his traces, deeds and words will be cancelled, manipulated, and abused by the press, by his friends, by his enemies, by his captors. There is a lot at stake with his capture: Unpleasant truths and unanswerable questions. We lived with Dabic for 13 years, he was one of us, among us, in the shadow half-life of Serbia.
    

    
    Two war criminals lived in my own street. Biljana Plavsic, the former leader of Republika Srpska, took power after Radovan Karadzic left in 1996. She pled guilty in the Hague and is now serving her sentence in Sweden. General Pavkovic was in charge during the pogrom of Albanians in Kosovo. He is sick of cancer.
    

    
    People in Belgrade feel bewildered and betrayed. For 13 years Serbian officials have claimed Karadzic was never in Serbia. He was hiding in the mountains as an Ali Baba together with his 40 hajduks ( Robin Hoods), he was sheltered in monasteries praying to God for his country. These myths were obviously planted by the people hiding him in downtown Belgrade. There Dabic led his weird public life, while the hapless Serbian population was held hostage for the misdeeds of Karadzic.

My links 07/24/2008

• J Stands for Jordan « Saxby’s Fifth Avenue

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  • J Stands for Jordan

    
    

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    When I saw this week’s assignment, to explore the blogging culture of a country that starts with the same letter as your name, I immediately thought of Japan.  I’ve always been interested in Japanese history and culture and Japan is certainly a place people around the world identify with modern technology.  When I went to Global Voices Online, I actually only had two other choices, anyway: Jamaica and Jordan.

    
    

    Japan certainly had a lot of entries on a wide range of topics.  Some of the posts were political.  There was a post about the failure of “Second Life” in Japan.  Others focused on sports.  While there was a lot to read, nothing really stood out as being that different from what one would expect from Western bloggers. 

    
    

    When I went back to the site today, a story on GVO’s home page caught my eye.  Jordan’s Queen Rania is using YouTube to create a dialogue on differences between the Middle East and the rest of the world.  Her Majesty, who is clearly contending with the late Princesses Grace and Diana for the Hottest Royal by Marriage title, wants web users, especially young web users, to submit not only their questions about the Middle East, but to also share stereotypes about the region in the form of vlogs. Between now and August 12, i.e., International Youth Day, the queen will address the submissions with, she hopes, input from others in the online community. 

• New Uses (to me) of Technology in Kenya « Shannon’s Corner

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  • New Uses (to me) of Technology in Kenya

    
    
    

    This week our Social Media class assignment challenged us to review a country on Global Voices and listen to what the blogging community had to say. I started looking at Kenya and found myself excited with the various conversations taking place and in particular, those surrounding technology uses in their county.

    
    

     

    
    

    Overall, Global Voice Kenya discussions fell into three categories: social, political and technology and marketplace.  Socially, bloggers introduced conversations on women, marriage and relationships.  Politically, the landscape included discussions on their new cabinet, the results of their recent presidential elections and the power sharing deal Kofi Anan helped to broker. Of course, Barack Obama running for president in the U.S. also has the attention of Kenyans with the bloggers calling him “Kenya’s most favorite son”.