Lisa

= Lisa Cheyenne Gries = 17-year old half Thai, half German living in Saudi Arabia attending the British International School of Jeddah since 2008. I have lived in Spain and India, and I have a tremendous love for travelling. In my free time, I like to play tennis and netball and I can spend hours shopping.

RESEARCH

//__Measures against contemporary forms of slavery:__//

[|UN FactSheet 14: Contemporary forms of slavery] [|Special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery] [|Brandeis- Forms of contemporary slavery] [|Human Rights Quarterly: Defining contemporary forms of slavery] [|UNHCR: Results for Human rights violations/contemporary forms of slavery] [|Working group on contemporary forms of slavery] [|Antislavery.org] [|BBC- How can we end slavery?]

[|Resolution 15/2] [|Press Release Contemp. Forms Slavery] [|Resolution 61/19] [|62/122]

//__Establishing and protecting the human rights of children in post-disaster areas:__// __[|UN works- Emergencies]__ __[|Children and Armed Conflict- Articles]__ __[|Resolution 64/146 Rights of the Child]__ __[|Working Paper 2- The Rights and Guarantees of Internally Displaced Children in Armed Conflict]__ __[|Committee on the Rights of the Child]__ __[|Global Issues- Children]__ __[|What is the role of the United Nations, particularly for peacekeeping forces and missions in post-disaster situations?]__ __[|Post-Disaster Recovery: Guidelines and Good Practices]__ __[|Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Education]__ __[|Women International Strategy for Disaster Reduction]__ __Resolution in Support of Chile and Haiti following the Earthquakes__ [|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]-Article 25, 26 __Disaster:-__ Events that are relatively sudden, highly disruptive, time limited (although the effects may be longer lasting) and public (affecting children from more than one family). A disaster may be due to: 1) Natural causes, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. 2) A failure of technology, such as and airplane crash or the collapse of a bridge. 3) An act of human violence, such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, or an act of war. Children can be direct victims of violence, witnesses to violence or heirs to several generations of violence. //Adapted from the APA's definition of disaster// . []
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