Archive for March, 2011

March 21st, 2011

Look up, Hannah!

March 21 was established by UN as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws”.

This day isn’t celebrated or remembered by the media as others. But today it is important to remember that racism has now become a gigantic beast rather than disappearing.

Today is not only a representation of hatred between races, racism has spread hatred among religions, ethnicities, social classes, ideologies, nationalities …

 

Doctor's visit is unusual in some villages. The hall for neighbourhood meetings is fitted out this time. Equatorial Guinee. Saturday, July 16, 2005. (Julio Aracil Moratel/julioaracil.es)

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March 8th, 2011

International Women’s Day 2011

Today is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women’s Day is a national holiday.

But for millions of women is just another day. In places like Europe we honours the work of women who will never know about this celebration.

Could be in the future this day will have a meaning for all the women in the world.

Until that day, Happy International Women’s Day for all of the forgotten women!!.

Some of farm hands coming from the altiplano eventually settled in Los Yungas and planting their own coca. This woman has bought a piece of virgin land with her husband, also from altiplano, and they will have his own plantation after eight years in Los Yungas. Charia, La Paz, Bolivia. Thursday, November. 19, 2009. (Julio Aracil/www.julioaracil.es)

Some of farm hands coming from the altiplano eventually settled in Los Yungas and planting their own coca. This woman has bought a piece of virgin land with her husband, also from altiplano, and they will have his own plantation after eight years in Los Yungas. Charia, La Paz, Bolivia. Thursday, November. 19, 2009.

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