Blog de César Salgado

Coñezo, a través de chuza!, a denuncia que veñen de presentar dúas asociacións defensoras da natureza: Verdegaia e a delegación en Ferrol da Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural.

Parece que nas parroquias de Covas e Esmelle (concello de Ferrol), en concreto nunha zona húmida coñecida como As Cabazas, que debería estar protexida pola súa singular biodiversidade, estiveron a realizarse traballos que causaron graves danos ó ecosistema.

Os detalles están explicados na anotación que aparece hoxe na bitácora da SGHN-Ferrol: “DENUNCIA degradación do humidal de As Cabazas (SGHN e VERDEGAIA)”.

É deplorable que as administracións non actúen rapidamente para conserva-lo patrimonio natural, que debe expropiarse se for necesario, e evitar danos que poden ser irreparables. Se non actúan, cando volva falar con franceses terei un argumento menos, e xa me quedan poucos, para discutirlles que “África empeza nos Pireneos”.

Amnistía Internacional publicou o xoves pasado un pequeno informe sobre a discriminación que sofren as comunidades Roma en países como Bulgaria, Romanía, Hungría, Serbia, Montenegro, Croacia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Eslovenia, Grecia, República Checa ou Eslovaquia.

O informe leva por título “Europe: Discrimination against Roma”. Copio e pego un extracto:

Nearly 80 per cent of the total European Roma population of about 10 million live in European Union (EU) member and aspiring member states. The Roma population is the poorest and one of the fastest growing in the region, living predominantly on the margins of society. Roma are one of the largest ethnic minority groups in Europe.

The Roma community suffers massive discrimination in access to housing, employment and education. In some countries they are prevented from obtaining citizenship and personal documents required for social insurance, health care and other benefits. Roma are often victims of police ill-treatment and their complaints are seldom investigated. Frequently Romani children are unjustifiably placed in “special” schools where curtailed curricula limit their possibilities for fulfilling their potential. Romani children and women are among the communities most vulnerable to traffickers.

The Decade of Roma Inclusion, which started in 2005, aims to improve the social and economic status of Roma. The initiative of several countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia, and supported by the international community is implementing policy reforms and programmes designed to break the vicious cycle of poverty and exclusion.

Over the years Amnesty International has researched different aspects of discrimination against the Romani communities across Europe. The organization has recorded the following findings in 2006 and the first half of 2007:

Roma were often the victims of torture or other ill-treatment by law enforcement officers across the region. Roma were also often victims of racist attacks during which they were not adequately protected by the police. The authorities in many countries failed to fulfil their domestic and international obligations towards the Roma community. [...]

Enlace relacionado: European Roma Rights Centre.

O mércores pasado asasinaron a Alisher Saipov, un xoven xornalista que denunciaba as violacións de Direitos Humanos nas repúblicas ex-soviéticas de Quirguicistán e Usbequistán.

Press releases

Human Rights Watch: “Kyrgyzstan: Ensure Justice for Murdered Journalist”.

Amnesty International: “Kyrgyzstan: Dismay at murder of independent journalist in Osh”.

Committee to Protect Journalists: “Prominent journalist killed in southern Kyrgyzstan”.

Human Rights Watch publicou o pasado xoves unha nota de prensa sobre as violacións dos Direitos Humanos cometidas polo exército de Birmania (Myanmar), que forzaron o desprazamento de centos de miles de civís pertencentes a minorías étnicas.

A nota de prensa leva por título “Burma: Army Attacks Displace Hundreds of Thousands. Grave Abuses in Ethnic Minority Areas Fuel Growing Humanitarian Crisis”. Copio e pego un extracto:

Burmese army attacks on ethnic minority villages have forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians in eastern Burma, creating dire humanitarian conditions, Human Rights Watch said today.

The Burmese army continues to destroy civilian villages in its counterinsurgency operations. It often uses depopulated areas for military-controlled business concessions and infrastructure projects such as gold mines and hydroelectric dams, three of which are planned close by on the Salween River, near the Thai border.

Human Rights Watch welcomed the release on October 19 of the 2007 annual internal displacement survey carried out by the nongovernmental Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC) and its local partner organizations. The TBBC found that as of mid-2007 there were 503,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in surveyed sites in eastern Burma. The report states that 99,000 IDPs were believed to be in hiding from Burmese army patrols, 109,000 were in military-controlled relocation sites, and 295,000 people were in areas controlled by armed groups with some ceasefire arrangements with the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The TBBC surveyed IDPs in Tennasserim Division, Mon State, Karen State and Pegu Division, Karenni State and southeastern Shan State.

“As well as attacking monks and democracy protestors in Rangoon, Burma’s military junta is forcing ethnic minority villagers to flee their homes in the country’s border areas,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The international community must not ignore the dire humanitarian situation fueled by army abuses in rural Burma.” [...]

Estes días andamos na clase a voltas cos signos de puntuación. Xa anotei aquí algúns xogos de palabras onde os signos de puntuación son a clave.

Agora encontro unha páxina, “Juegos de palabras - Signos de puntuación”, con máis material en español para reforzar este aspecto. Por exemplo:

Café, puro y copa a un euro cada uno son… tres euros.
Café puro y copa a un euro cada uno son… dos euros.

No comáis grasas animales.
No comáis grasas, ¡animales!

Quisiera contar las cosas que yo he visto,
pero no pienses que soy un tipo listo.
He visto un niño volar sobre las casas.
He visto aviones comer ciruelas pasas.
He visto hombres correr a cien por hora.
He visto coches en una cantimplora.
He visto agua paseando por la calle.
He visto gente pastando en aquel valle.
He visto vacas volando por el cielo.
He visto aves hacer casas de hielo.
He visto esquimales de siete colores.
He visto un arco iris de tres sabores.
He visto helados. Estas cosas yo he visto,
pero no pienses que soy un tipo listo.

E moitos máis. Para o estudio sistemático dos signos de puntuación en español, unha procura rápida en Google remite a, entre outros recursos:

• http://amnesia.eljuego.free.fr/Fichas_gramatica/FG_puntuacion.htm (fichas de Gramática elaboradas por David Tarradas Agea e Marta Dassonville - Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers)
• http://www.elcastellano.org/esbpuntu.html (”De los signos de puntuación”, texto extraído do Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la lengua española publicado pola Real Academia Española no 1973)
• http://roble.pntic.mec.es/~msanto1/ortografia/puntu.htm (fichas e exercicios elaborados por Mariano Santos Posada)

Para o estudio dos signos de puntuación en galego podemos acudir a:

• Normas ortográficas e morfolóxicas do idioma galego, aprobadas pola Real Academia Galega no 2003 (guión, diérese e apóstrofo)
• Uso dos signos de puntuación (Área de Normalización Lingüística da Universidade de Vigo)