| June 2017 HUMAN ASIA NEWS |
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| June 2017/No.85 |
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NEWS No. 1
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| Story of Knitted Hat Donation by 'Morado' |
Morado is a 50-year-old brand which produces top quality women's apparel, especially knitwear, with its own unique patterns and weaves using only carefully selected thread. Morado decided to do what it does best to help others in need: to use leftover thread from knitwear production and to create knitted hats with messages from each employee. The two hundred hats were donated to Human Asia, and Human Asia let the medical service volunteers to deliver these warm gifts to Kabanjahe, Indonesia. 
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NEWS No. 2
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| The 5th Global Human Rights School |
The 5th Global Human Rights School for Teenagers took place on June 24. The topic of this class was 'Refugees' in order to commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20). The program consisted of campaigns, participation in the KOREFF (Korean Refugee Film Festival) and lecture. This allowed the students to meet more people who were interested in refugees, watch documentaries produced by UNHCR, meet its Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung, and to participate in a lively lecture given by a former refugee..
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NEWS No. 3
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| Campaign on the 2nd day of 2017 KOREFF |
The second day of the 3rd KOREFF (June 25) took place in the 'Marronnier Park'. This day was to allow the many organizations in the Korea Refugee Supporting Network to campaign and deliver its message concerning refugees on their own right. Despite the rain, many people enjoyed the handprinting activity by Human Asia (to raise awareness of the importance of education for SNEHA School students). Human Asia human rights clubs from various schools also joined to give quiz on refugees and to sell Human Asia umbrella and T-shirts.
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BOOK
Me Before You |
| Written by Jojo Moyes/ Published by Michael Joseph (2012) |
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The novel Me Before You, the original worlk of the movie which won tremendous popularity recently, not only described the love, but also brought out the topic of euthanasia. Although it is not treated deeply as other books normally did, Me Before You expressed miserable condition and respect for one's choice well from family's perspective and the main characters. Furthermore, it provided an opportunity to consider about human nature and euthanasia.
The heroine of the story, Louisa worked at a small local cafe in the United Kingdom; however she loses her job as the cafe closes. Lacking special skills or education, she could not find a new place to work. One day, Louisa finds the advertisement and applied as a helper to care for the paralyzed patient Will for 6 months. Will, once a competent and promising businessman, was currently a patient who couldn't move. He denied himself for a while, and eventually chose to die with dignity. Louisa was hired to care hor him for the remaining period. .
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MOVIE
Zootopia |
| 2016/ Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore/ Stared by Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba and more |
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This film is about an unconventional rabbit 'Judy' who wants ot be a police officer in the animal world 'Zootopia'. She is brave and righteous, good enough to become a good police officer, but her dream is often ignored by other animals only because she is a rabbit, and rabbits are take as unfit for important jobs. However, she does her best and graduates the police academy with flying flags. Although her initial duty was issuing parking tickets, she works hard and meets a great partner 'Nick' the fox, who is always misunderstood like her. Zootopia starts to suffer from serial casesof mysterious disappearance and Judy is ordered to solve the problem in 48 hours. Judy and Nick work together and finally catch the criminal.
While watching this, I thought of two things:
First, I was impressed with the characters in this film. 'Judy' the main character is a female rabbit, and due to her eppearanc many other animals fail to respect her for who she is.. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS
- 2017 2nd Model UN HRC UPR Competition for High School - Orientation (July 15, Korea University)
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