Well I visited several blogs today and read them, i personally like the last one from the list, i liked the style of the blog it was light and it was easy to read an understand, i liked also the images and videos she used to make it more interesting , I agreed with several of her points of view from all the topics she talked about, but I also differ from some of them ;), as I could expect not everybody thinks the same, but i had a good time reading it
“Chemtech is Brazil’s leading provider of optimization solutions to the process industry, with projects in countries such as Germany, United States, Russia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, France, South Africa, Canada and Spain. In 2001 Chemtech was integrated into the Siemens group. Whilst maintaining its leading position, world-class quality, well-established market share, range of solutions and independent management, the Company now combines its dynamic operations with the solidness and breadth of the Siemens business group.” Retrieve from: http://www.chemtech.com.br/lportal/web/guest/nossa_empresa
This Brazilian company was named for the second year in a row the best place to work in Brazil and it occupied the 7th place in the Latin American list, as we can see, in the web page is a company that highlights the progress of the employees for example putting the new accomplishment of the new CEO of the company, and also all the developments that the company has had in the last years, as well, the company shows all the currents projects and corporate responsibilities policies, also the opportunity to upload resumes if you want to work for them.
And with a set of important corporate values as: integrity, commitment, trust, quality, transparence, enthusiasm, good citizenship and eco-efficiency. Integrity and transparency are essential values for Chemtech, and they are participants of the Ethos Institute’s Business Pact for Integrity and against Corruption, the UN Global Compact and the Siemens Global Compliance Program.
From your own point of view it useful to say sorry after years of wrong policies towards a minority? Why, What else is needed?
First of all the situation was very complicated just to say sorry after many years, destroy families jus t because they were thinking for “better opportunities” for those kids, as we could see in the movie. Kids became orphans with imposed rules, education and religion that they didn’t know. For the aborigines they were not doing anything wrong so there was no reason at all for taking their children.
As just saying one word could make up for all the harm the “white australian” caused, the first thing to do would be to try to unify families with the information they could have, it is not a possible solution for everyone the effort can be made to try to reunite possible families all over Australia; besides that some economic compensation should be made for those people who were separated even though they can’t undo the things they did, at least they would acknowledge the bad thing they did, an also recognize as a mistake all those policies for half caste children as they weren’t doing anything wrong, as we can see is not an easy thing to do to heal all the wounds caused by incorrect policies that were aimed to discriminated people and made their lives really hard.
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Trade unions in the European Union is the organization of workers for a certain enterprise or sector in order to get more rights, benefits, and the capacity to negotiate easily with their employers to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. As the EU varies in a wide range of aspects Unions aren’t the difference, in countries as Finland 71% of the employees are in Unions, Austria 32%, Spain 16% and France 8%, varying the power of each group for every country.But in general they have really great negotiating power in Europe mainly for the sectors or industries that belong to the States, but every time this percentage is decreasing in many countries, Unions are not having the same power as they used to, and people are not seeing the benefits of joining to this type of organizations, and also because nowadays companies tend to be more conscious about the effects of having unions and prefer to establish a good work environment and reward systems, to avoid the creation of Unions.
Trade Unions are not different from their purpose in the EU or Colombia, they are created to pursue more rights and common goals for the employees, but as the trend these organizations faced in Europe they are starting to decrease here as well, many of them stills have great power specially for government enterprises, but in the private sector their presence is every time less active.
image: Trade Union cartoon 10.http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban126l.jpg
As the banking system consists in the western hemisphere about interests, for the Arab world as consider in the Koran, usury is forbidden, so they need to develop different kind of strategies or products for the Muslims that are not consider usury, but applies the general norms for a successful business as the banking system in the Arab world. For example:
Al mudaraba: The bank puts the capital and the customer the effort to conduct a business or developing a business. Bank and customer, share profits and losses.
Al murabaha: The bank buys the product requested by the client and agrees a price. The product will be sold in another agreed price, the bank earns the difference.
Al musharaka: The bank and the client become partners, provide the same capital and assume the same risk-benefit proportion: one third for the bank, one for the client and the third to repay the loan.
These are means that the banks use as for example the use of credit cards is forbidden for them, you have to take this into consideration when you are gonna make business with Arab people.
It is important to highlight the role of Gandhi in India’s independence, the non violence movement and the massive respond of the people led them to accomplish its final objective to become free from the United Kingdom. He was the pioneer of the resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded on total nonviolence which led and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
One of Gandhi’s major contributions was that to show that pacifism was a viable tool to achieve political objectives and that the independence of India was possible without any kind of war or deaths. Gandhi preached harmony and nonviolence in a world where many believe war was the only way to accomplish things.
Gandhi was a nationalist leader, but also, was he was looking for equality and justice. Another important thing to appreciate from him was that he was looking to abolish the caste system in a country where their religious system created outcasts or untouchables; he was looking for all individuals to become recognized as citizens with rights.
His ambitions went beyond the strictly political sphere: beyond the liberation of their country and social transformation, called for the spiritual improvement of man. Thanks to his believes and the way he acted as an ethical person, he showed to the world that there are different ways to do things; his thoughts and attitudes served as examples for the several peace movements that emerged in the world after the World War II. Image: Man of Firm Step, available at: http://library.thinkquest.org/C0125481/gandhienglish/dandimarch.jpg
One of the most worldwide issues about China is its constraints about freedom of speech, specially seen right now thanks to the spread of the internet as a tool for communicating around the world.
Even thought in the national Constitution it states that: “Chinese citizens enjoy freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Other legislation, such as China's Publishing Regulations, stipulates that groups and individuals may not interfere in the lawful exercise of these rights.” (Taken from: http://www.cecc.gov/pages/virtualAcad/exp/) It is the government itself who doesn’t want to know the world some of the things that happen there, they are aware of the interest that people have in China right now and how they are handling some topics as human rights, work conditions and environmental issues, that’s why they need to control the information flow about those critical topics internationally in order to maintain a “good image” of the progress in China.
Censorship is heavily imposed but is not total some areas such as Hong Kong and Macau are not submitted to the government regulations, that includes controlling over the news information, restrictions on the media, controlled Internet Services Provider that verifies the information and control internet user’s content availability and banned publications, etc. are some of the ways, they use to control the information exchange, many international NGOs have presented their concerns and exposed how China doesn’t meet the international human rights standards for freedom of expression.
But thanks to the expansion of the internet, people from China are having more opportunities to share their living experience and show the world what is going on there in spite of the strict government regulations, and also to know about the world ‘s different points of view, and what freedom of speech stands for.
The term expatriate refers mainly to skilled migration because not all of them have the need to go living abroad, besides is very normal for example that some multinational companies send them to work for a period of time in another country or considered legal migration with all the paperwork need to apply for a working visa and stuff like that, and later return to their home country, this is not considered as a force migration, meanwhile immigrants tend to be more labour kind of worker who wants better life conditions and standards of living, that doesn’t necessarily mean legal migration. Actually both terms refer to people living in a different culture from their own culture, but depending on the conditions of the person going abroad you can consider them expatriate or immigrant. Image: Migrants, available at: http://mammjtommo.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/migrants.jpg
