Reporting Without Borders
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Reporting Without Borders This e-magazine is part of an eTwinning project entitled “Reporting Without Borders” involving students from three European countries: Romania, Poland and France; Romanian students from the Grupul Scolar "Dr Mihai Ciuca", Saveni, Polish students from Zespół Szkół nr 1 w Pszczynie, Pszczyna, and French students from Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar, Morangis. From January to April 2011, the students cooperated to write an e-magazine: they got to know one another, selected some themes they were interested in, eXchanged in various ways around the topics selected (and other things too!), then organized the information collected and wrote some articles together. The goals of the project were multiple: promote intercultural education and European citizenship of course, but also encourage the practice and use of English as a foreign language through a creative and entertaining process, and foster cooperative work, team work and the effective use of collaborative tools online. It was above all an opportunity to escape school boundaries: “get out of the classroom”, cross borders and learn differently! Enjoy! Cristina, Lucyna, Claudine the teachers. SOCIETY GENDER ISSUES GENDER EQUALITY There is a law that says that men and by Fanny, Marine & Vincent women are equal, and the right to vote was In Poland obtained in 1948 for women in Romania, but it In many countries, women and men aren't cannot be denied that they are not always on an on an equal footing. Religion can be an equal footing because they are discriminated in impediment to this development, for eXample in many areas. Indeed, both seXes have the right to Arabic countries like Egypt or Libya. education, which is essential because it allows But today, we want to talk about the them to have access to work, but, even if they situation of the European Union, can work, we can notice that there more precisely Poland. are differences between Nowadays, the situation in men and women; for Poland is similar to the instance women are situation in France. Yes, often hired only part- for eXample there is a time, that’s why their woman in the average salary is lower government, Elzbieta than men's. In Romania, Radziszewska, who was women are sometimes seen named ambassador for juridical as persons who are not able to equality between women and men in 2008, have professional ambition and intellectual March 7th. Moreover since 2005, there is a ability. It means that in that country there are government association, the IRIS, which fights still inequalities men/women in spite of the fact for women's rights (like victims of trafficking). they have the same skills. On the It is not only in the legislation, there is a workplace that they formulation of equal are discriminated rights of women and against. Romanian men that guarantees women have an gender equality in economic social employment, access status inferior to the to promotion and men's, but also in equal pay for work the judicial field. For of equal value. example, if a woman But, there are is subjected to a inequalities between rape, if she has no women and men in the sector of health because witness and she can’t prove this rape, she has to there isn't the same life eXpectancy. Moreover, a live with her trauma because in Romania, research shows Poland knows a problem with contrary to other countries, there are no laws women's obesity and tobacco use. which force the suspect to take a medical eXam In Romania to confirm the rape. She can’t complain against her attacker. men but we can’t Moreover, the talk about government equality when doesn't deal men and women with this are not problem considered seriously. intellectually and We can morally in the find women in same way... the Romanian Some government as numbers: Anca Boagiu 52 % of who is women have a transports and substructures minister and Elena job whereas for men it’s 65.2% 27.1 % of Gabriela Udrea, the regional development and women are managers of private businesses or tourism minister. There are more men in the executives whereas men are 72.9 %. 10.6 % of government than women, it may be the fact that women have a part-time whereas men are 9.1 % women have trouble to climb the social ladder (http://www.solidarite.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Chiffre and they don't have easily access to the political s_cles_2010_egalite_hommes_femmes.pdf) 723 life like men. women died between 2004 and 2009 because of To conclude, we can say that in Romania wife beating. 120 000 women are introduced the woman's place is sometimes limited. They illegally every year to feed prostitution are too often seen as mothers and housewives networks. who are not able to have social or professional (http://steconomice.uoradea.ro/anale/volume/ ambition. It cannot be denied that they are 2009/v2-economy-and-business- totally dependent on the men in that case. The dministration/45.pdf ) government hides the women's suffering by showing they have the right to work and vote as the in front of God and they should be equal everywhere. So they should have the same rights WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT as men. There are countries where women have by Sanziana few rights, such as Iraq or Iran. But in India, The women’s empowerment movement things are different. Their present president is took place at the beginning of 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. Her name is after the First World War. Before this, women Pratibha Devisingh Patil. And the government of had no right to vote, they weren’t recognized in India declared 2001 as the Year of Women's political areas, and they were kept home, to do Empowerment (Swashakti). The National Policy the work that men didn’t want to do. This wasn’t For The Empowerment Of Women came was right, so they started to fight for their rights. passed in 2001. Now, they have more rights than before the First We’ve talked to our friends and we’ve World War. They are represented in political found out that there are girls who can’t imagine areas, they have the right to vote, domestic women living without any rights. And we think violence is forbidden, so they can’t be beaten. the same. Because we are girls, future women, But this is not happening all over the world. we want to have full rights, such as men. Did you We did some researches on this subject, know that women own less than 1 percent of the and we’ve realized that there are more than half world’s property? Still, there are a lot of really of the women in the world that cannot read, and successful businesswomen that demonstrated there are countries where little girls cannot once more that we should have the same rights attend primary school. This is really not fair. All as men. women should be able to read or write, and all Every girl and every woman in the entire girls should go to school, because education is world should be allowed to attend school, to try such an important thing, and everybody should to build a career, to have the opportunity to have the right to it. demonstrate her abilities and reach any position Women in the entire world should try to she wants. fight for their rights, because everyone is equal SOCIETY OUR FUTURE THE APPROACH OF THE FUTURE last century despite the action of non- by Florin, Gabriel & Daniel governmental organizations who try to promote Nowadays youngsters think about a future non-polluting activities. in which they will have a well-paid job and Global warming could be reduced by using where they will do what they like. But the only new non polluting technologies, but think also way to get where you want is school: here you that 30 minutes spent on foot or using the bike learn how to interact with the others around you not only doesn’t pollute but what is more it and it is the place where you socialize the most. helps us keep our health intact. At school we learn about the differences Even though over the last decades pollution between generations in things like learning, has been high because of industry and the doing homework , spending free time and many economic development of many countries, in our other things. But we believe that the most opinion we must also think of the numerous important problem between generations is the non-profit organizations who promote non- change in mentality: whereas a decade ago polluting activities to stop global warming and people spent more time learning, today a lot of the destruction of our planet. people are more preoccupied with computers, The use of modern communicating means which takes us to the answer of the French make communication between people of students who see the future with 2 perspectives: different nationalities much easier and global warming and computerization of the accessible to almost anyone. Proof of this are the world. social networks like Facebook,Twitter,Hi5 which As we well know, global warming is the have a very high traffic and great popularity. phenomenon of the rising of the average Still these ways of communicating and temperatures of the atmosphere close to the soil spending our free time have some bad as well as in the water of the oceans, which has consequences too, like computer addiction, been constant in the last 2 centuries but has diseases provoked directly or indirectly.