SPORTS RE THINKING

In2022,theworld’snationswillsendtheirbest soccer players to Qatar to compete or the FIFA World Cup. In preparation or the quadrennial event, the country is investin $200 billion in in rastructure. But as visitors strollvastpromenadestowardsthepitchand scale stadium stairwells to their seats, they may not know that they are walkin on the backso victimso labortraffickin .

Inmanylabortraffickin cases,unscrupulous recruiters lure workers to another country and char e workers exorbitant ees, orcin them into debt be ore they even be in the job. Then employers withhold their immi ration documents and deny their wa es, ivin workers no le al recourse withoutproo o theirle alstatus.

Chan e will require sustained pressure rom the international community and leadership rom the Qatari authorities. The many nations and corporations involved in the World Cup have an important role to play in ensurin the event is not tainted by the products o slave labor. The or anizers, athletes,andvisitorso theWorldCupshould not tolerate the Qatari overnment’s weak attempts to address this widespread, well-knownproblem.

Human Ri hts First isanindependentadvocacyandactionor anizationthatchallen esAmericatolive uptoitsideals.WebelieveAmericanleadershipisessentialinthe lobalstru le orhumanri hts,sowe presstheU.S.

overnmentandprivatecompaniestorespecthumanri htsandtheruleo law.Whenthey ail, we step in to demand re orm, accountability and justice. Around the world, we work where we can bestharnessAmericaninfluencetosecurecore reedoms.

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Written by Melanie Moore

Understanding sport on a global scale

International sportin events have the power to brin down walls o non-communication and rise above what separates us by usin the common lan ua eo sharedexperience.

International sportin events, such as the FIFA WorldCup,areviewedworldwide.Accordin toThe Wall Srteet Journal 3,.2 billion peploe watched a World Cup match in 2014. Events like these are some o the rare moments when individuals on all sides o the lobe are watchin the same event un oldontheirscreens.

One o the more amous examples o sports connectin cultures at odds with each other is alle ed to have occured durin World War I. On Christmas Day in 1914, the British, French, and German soldiers in their trenches emer ed or a day o soccer,carolin ,and riendlinessamidstthe hostileenvironment.Althou hconflictin accounts remain, this event shows the power that sport has touniteus,i onlymomentarily.

Another example o sports brid in cultural differences can be seen throu h the work o an or anization called PeacePlayers International. This or anization hosts basketball ames or kids in areas ri e with ethnic and reli ious conflict. For example, they host basketball ames or children within historically conflictin communities in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, South A rica, and also or different multicultural communitieswithintheUnitedStates.

One student, who helped coach one o the PeacePlayers’teams,saido herexperience,“Ihave learnedhowchan in others’perceptionscanbe verychallen in ,butseein theoutcomeo youn people rom previously conflictin communities and back rounds playin to ether and makin riendshipsIknowcanlastalietime,isincredible.”

Written by Jenny Vainber @Man

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The Bi Green Tent — 3еленый шатер

A critically acclaimed 21st-century Russian writer, Ludmila Ulitskaya underlines thesubversivepowero books to spark chan e in her latest novel published in 2010.

The novel ollows the riendshipo threeschoolboys in 1950s Moscow as they journey into adulthood in a society marked by censorship, exile,andtheKGB.Apoet,a

We — Мы

Completed in 1921, this Russian dystopian novel has influencedmanyotherworks o dystopian fiction, includin Geor e Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s BraveNewWorld.

Set in the uture dystopia o a totalitarian state (in which citizens are under the constant watchul eye o the Beneactor),en ineerD-503

El alebrije es una artesanía mexicana un tanto surrealista, elaborada de cartón o madera. Tienen orma de animalitos de colores muy pintorescos y llamativos. Al unos alebrijes son unamezcladedosomásanimales odeanimalesconplantas.

Can you find them?

Alebrijesori inatedinMexicoCityin the20thcentury.Thefirstalebrijes, aswellasthenameitsel,are attributedtoPedroLinares,an artisan romMéxicoCity,who specializedin makin piñatas, carnivalmasks and“Judas” fi ures rom cartonería.

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Día de Muertos: Intan ible Cultural Herita e o Humanity

In 2003, UNESCO proclaimed Mexico’s “Day o the Dead” Intan ible Cultural Herita e o Humanity. The cultural wealth o this tradition resides on the act that it not only blends Mexico’s ancient mytholo ieswithEuropeanCatholictraditions,butalso,itcombines all undamental elements o Mexico’s rich culture: amily, ood, music,artsandcra ts,andastron senseo community.

is a comic depictin the story o an in enious little irl rowin up in a middle class amily in Buenos Aires, Ar entina.Quino,thecreatoro Maalda,hasreceived manyawardsanddistinctions orhiswork,includin theNationalOrdero the Le ion o Honour and the Prince o Asturias Award or Communication and Humanities romFranceandSpainrespectively.

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Susanitaesclasista,nole importanlospobresytiene comportamientosracistas.

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Felipetienesieteañosya élle ustaju ar.Felipe tieneunaima inación randeyelsiempreesta perdido en sus pensamientos1.Poresta razón,éles inquieto2 e introvertido.Aélnole ustalaescuelaperoama aMuriel,sucompañera declase,ensecreto.Aél nole ustanilevantarse tempranonilastareasde laescuela.Éles olvidadizo3 yestásiempre pensandoenotrascosas.

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2inquieto: restless

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Ma aldaisverypopularinLatinAmericaand EuropeancountrieslikeSpain,France,Greece, andItaly.Ithasbeentranslatedintomorethan thirtylan ua es.

En esta tira de Ma alda, Susanita lee el periódico y aprende sobre todos los peli ros que ocurren en el mundo. Después, pone el periódico en el suelo, estira sus brazos, y dice, “¡Por suerte el mundoquedatan,tanlejos!”

Lo que leí me hace recordar que es ácil desasociarnos de eventos desa radables del mundo. Muchas veces, no sentimos la necesidad de tomar acción y cambiar el mundo porque pensamos que no nos a ectadirectamente.

Esto hace pre untarme sobre el uturo porque si las eneraciones uturas no están dispuestas a poner el trabajo para hacer el cambio social y simplemente ser transeúntes y ver el mundo descender a la oscuridad, no habrá esperanza para el mundo. Por lo tanto, necesitamos ase urarnos de que estamos haciendo nuestro papel para hacer el mundo un lu armejor.