What should the role of the United Nations be?

The logo of the United Nations

Many of us should heard before the organization of United Nations, we maybe know them from a movie, because their name always appear in movies especially in those military or disaster movie. However, we may not know what the mission of United Nations is and why United Nations exist? I hope this blog can helps you to have better understanding on United Nations, respect and appreciate their hard work on maintaining a peace and security of the World.

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. In 1945, countries were in ruins because World War II was just over. At that time, the world wanted peace and harmony. Therefore 51 countries appointed their representative to gather in San Francisco to sign a document. The document was a Charter, creating a new organization, the United Nations. The United Nations' system is based on five principal organs: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice. The mission of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. This is how United Nations established. And now, United Nations made up of 193 Member States, you may find the Member States in the link (http://www.un.org/en/member-states/). Over this 70 years, the United Nations are doing the most difficult job in the World, the roles and responsible of United Nations are maintaining International peace and security, promoting sustainable development, protect human rights, uphold international law, and deliver humanitarian aid.

Maintaining International peace and security 

Peace and security

The role of maintaining international peace and security represents the primary purpose of the United Nations. Because of the importance of international peace and security, the founders of the United Nations adhere to and emphasized it in the preface and the Charter of the Organization. They stated all the possible principles, methods and procedures in the Charter which are to be followed to achieve this end. This reflects the intentions and desires of the United Nations’ founders whose seek to establish an international organization for achieving international peace and security. The United Nations does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one another, to be effective. The United Nations Security Council has the primary responsibility for international peace and security. The General Assembly and the Secretary-General play major, important, and complementary roles, along with other UN offices and bodies.

Promoting sustainable development

Climate control

The United Nations always aims to achieving international co-operation, the desires to cooperate and work together with many parties to solve the international problems such as economic, cultural, social, or humanitarian character and in promoting respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all regardless of race, language, sex or religion. Besides, United Nations also work hard to emphasize on improving people’s well-being. In their promoting sustainable development programs, United Nations was included promotes prosperity and economic opportunity, greater social well-being, protection of the environment, improving the lives of people everywhere. In recent years, the Member of United States are working together to fight the climate change. . As climate change poses a growing challenge to the world’s such as sea-level rise to melting glaciers, to more extreme weather patterns, thus, the United Nations facilitate negotiations under the UN Framework Convention for a climate agreement in 2015. In addition, the United Nations is supporting efforts to assess the climate science, and provide assistance to countries and communities to reduce emissions and to build climate resilience.

Protect human rights

You have the right to life

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, color, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are considered entitled: the right to life, liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equal treatment before the law, among others. Making the promotion and protection of human rights also a key role of the United Nations. Since 1948, the human rights was included in international law, and thus the United Nations protected human rights through legal resources and on-the-ground activities. The Office of the High Commissioner has been responds to crises, supports human rights defenders, and brings human rights closer to people through advocacy, monitoring and training activities, it contributes to legislative and policy reforms to increase accountability for human rights violations and advance human rights.

Uphold international law

International Law

International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations. International law also defines the legal responsibilities of States in their conduct with each other, and their treatment of individuals within State boundaries. Its covers a wide range of international concern, such as human rights, disarmament, international crime, refugees, migration, problems of nationality, the treatment of prisoners, the use of force, and the conduct of war, among others. It also regulates the global commons, such as the environment and sustainable development, international waters, outer space, global communications and world trade. The development of, and respect for international law has been the important role of the United Nations. This work is carried out in many ways - by courts, multilateral by the Security Council, which have authority to approve peacekeeping missions, impose sanctions, or authorize the use of force when there is a threat to international peace and security.

Deliver humanitarian aid

Humanitarian affairs

The United Nations’ main role of humanitarian aid is to save lives, reduce suffering and respect to human dignity. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for coordinating responses to emergencies such as providing emergency relief to those in need belong homeless, refugees, victims of natural disasters, wars and famines. The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is one of the best organization to support rapid humanitarian response for refugee whose affected by natural disasters and armed conflict. They helps to protect refugee and resolve refugee problems and coordinate on rebuild programs. 

List of references:

• United Nations (no date) Available at: http://www.un.org/en/index.html (Accessed: 13 May 2016).
• EMMA, D. (2015) ‘Doing “the Most Difficult Job in the World”’, Harvard International Review, Vol. 37(1), pp. 4–6.
• Stokstad, E. (2015) ‘United Nations. Sustainable goals from U.N. under fire.’, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 347(6223), pp. 702–703.

Inspiring Story: People who have changed the world - Tony Fernandes

Tan Sri Anthony Francis “Tony” Fernandes is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He introduced the first budget airline – AirAsia to Malaysians, with the tagline "Now everyone can fly". Tony Fernandes and his partner Dato Kamarudin acquired struggling AirAsia in December 2001. They succeeded to turn AirAsia from a failing government-linked commercial airline into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. Initially Tony Fernandes came from music business, he don’t know anything about airline industry and everybody laughed at him. When people think this is not possible, he transform the negative sounds into passion and a lot of hard work. Perhaps they don’t have prior airline experience therefore they managed to transform AirAsia into one of the fastest-growing and most successful low-fare airlines in the world. He created the myth and he also make most of the Malaysians dreams come true.

Tony Fernandes said: “In AirAsia we consider ourselves basically a dream factory…We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house.  The culture that we have stems from the fact that we want openness and we want people to be creative and passionate about what they do. In order to do that, we’ve got to inspire them.”

Every one of us have childhood dream but how many people still remember the childhood dreams? How many are now working on it and how many already achieved it? Brian Tracy quotes - “All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” Tony Fernandes also have childhood dreams, he dreams to running an airline, owning an English football club and Formula One racing team.  He never give up and now he achieved all his childhood dreams. He living in his dream and he achieved it, managed it very well and make it profitable. Just like AirAsia’s motto - ‘Dream the impossible, believe the unbelievable, and never take no for an answer.’

When I am still a child, I thought we are not able to go overseas travel frequently because it’s expensive. However, AirAsia helps me to achieve my dreams more easily and cheap. Tony Fernandes established AirAsia with the company mission of “Now Everyone Can Fly”. He introduced AirAsia’s low fares make it possible to bring families together, enable people to explore and have new adventures. Now everyone able to plan for overseas holiday with the low fares, they can travel anywhere that AirAsia fly. Apart from to make customers’ dreams come true, Tony Fernandes also encourage their employees’ to pursue their dreams. In AirAsia, Tony Fernandes continuing inspire people to pursue dreams and passion, he tried to introduce this in the management philosophy.

Jack Welch said “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Tony Fernandes is a real leader, he influence others, and he use his capability to grow others. From Tony Fernandes’s inspiring story, there are some key point we should learn from him:

1. DREAM BIG – Don’t underestimate yourself and don’t be afraid to be a big dreamer. For sure all the goals and dreams are very difficult to achieve but we should believe our dreams and work hard to make them come true. We might come face to face with failure, and that can be rather frightening, the process is painful but the results will be sweet. Facts have proved that, it is ok for a little boy to dream about an airline company, a football club and a formula 1 team as Tony Fernandes show us that such dreams can come true as long as we have passion, work hard and believe ourselves that we can do it. Tony Fernandes said “I don’t care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, ‘How come I didn’t try? In conclusion, there is no right or wrong for a person to aim high because the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

2. OPEN DOOR STRATEGY: “Open Door” is the culture of the workplace in AirAsia which ties all the employees, help them enjoy their work and deliver their best level. This culture advocate on transparency and transparency is essential at all levels in the hierarchy to avoid conflicts and unnecessary disagreements. In AirAsia, Tony Fernandes removed all unnecessary organizational levels and make it easy for the employees to meet the management. He encourages effective communication between the employee and the management. This makes employees do not feel left out at the workplace as they know there is someone to support them always at the time of crisis. Adopted open door strategy allows employees to seek boss’s help and freely discuss things with them for better clarity. This is one of the successful keys of AirAsia under the management of Tony Fernandes.

3. TURN OBSTACLES INTO OPPORTUNITIES: Tony Fernandes said “It is always a good time for marketing. Even when times are bad, you should market your company and services. Don’t be afraid to do that even if you are a small brand.” Tony Fernandes always respond quickly and smart, he knows how to seize the opportunity and turn bad thing into opportunities and helps AirAsia to gained company image. For example, when first Bali bomb attacked, everyone cancelled their flights. However, Tony Fernandes came up with ‘Love Bali’ campaign, giving away 10,000 free seats and the seats were snapped up in like under one minute. People who grabbed the free seats spread the news and that’s why Tony Fernandes said “the best advertisement is your customers”. In conclusion, life is full of opportunities to make bad thing into better things.

AirAsia - We'll take you there

List of references:

• BRIAN, M. (2010) ‘Flying On A Budget’, Forbes Asia, Vol. 6(Issue 14), pp. P58–65.
• SINGHAL, M. (2013) ‘AN AIRLINE FOR THE PEOPLE’, Business Today, Vol. 22(Issue 19), pp. P24–28.
• Anhthien (2012) Tony Fernandes -- ‘dream the impossible’. Available at: http://www.chrisfharvey.com/2012/11/tony-fernandes-dream-the-impossible/ (Accessed: 25 April 2016).

Legalizing Prostitution: Should we or not?

Prostitution is the act of getting into sexual relations for a fee and is also referred to as commercial sex. While this act is unchecked in many parts of the world, its legality varies in different countries. Some countries in Europe such as Netherlands and Germany have legalized prostitution. Other governments like Thailand, legally prohibit prostitution activities and enterprises. In Sweden country, they taken a different legal approach-penalizing the buyers while at the same time decriminalizing the women in prostitution. Most of the countries are prohibit prostitution activities and should we legalizing prostitution in the future? I think we should not legalizing prostitution because legalizing prostitution would lead to increases in sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS, global human trafficking and instilling immorality to society.

Prevent is better than cure

Legalizing prostitution can promote the spread of sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDs and STDs can be contracted from having multiple partners. Once prostitution is legalized, it can encourage more people to solicit sex and commit infidelity. Moreover some people are not keen into using protection therefore STDs may rapid spread in the country as the infection passed from one person to another person through sexual contact. This is not only hurt the prostitute and the buyer (customer), but also harm the innocent people close around such as spouse and children. Some STIs can be cured and some STIs cannot be cured, this will definitely affect our next generation.

The presence of an adult sex industry increases both the rates of human trafficking. According to one of the article (In World Development, Jan 2013), they are investigating the impact of legalized prostitution on human trafficking inflows. The scale effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market and therefore increasing human trafficking. The empirical analysis for a cross-section of up to 150 countries shows that countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human trafficking inflows. In short, legalizing prostitution will encourage to human trafficking. Therefore we should not legalizing prostitution activities in order to prevent the global human trafficking criminal rate increase. Furthermore, human trafficking and prostitution activities are normally managed by criminal underworld. If we prohibit prostitution activities can also avoid strengthen the empowers of criminal underworld.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after

Although we are advocate to have open-minded and avant-garde thinking in 21^st century, but should we or not to legalizing prostitution is a topic of concerning about morality. Many times people become prostitutes only because they are uneducated and lacked good opportunities in life. Those with a sad reasons behind, is this excusable? We shouldn't be teaching others that it is an acceptable way of life. Some people become prostitutes because they think that this is the way to earn fast cash compare to common work but selling the body for material gain is unacceptable. If it's a matter of morals, I contend that prostitution is inherently immoral. Sex should be between lovers, not between two strangers. The Government should not legalizing prostitution, in fact they should instilling the positive thinking and the correct morality to the society.

From then till now, the debate for the decriminalization of prostitution is endless. Because there is always have different opinions from people when it comes to legality, morality and health concern. Whether legal or illegal, prostitution doesn't stop the spread of disease as well as the disintegration of the culture, society, and nation. We should opposed to anything that would legalize the purchasing of sex by buyers. We should opposed to pimping being legal. We should opposed to brothel keeping being legal. We should create a sense that buying sex from a woman is socially unacceptable and legally unacceptable. Last but not least, life is never easy. A woman will not voluntary to be a prostitute, unless it is forced to. We should not irreverence any job or any trade but do not take it as lifelong career.

Quote: Human always have freedom to choose the life they want. Women, take care and love yourself!

List of references:

• Why It’s Time to Legalize Prostitution - The Daily Beast. 2016. Why It’s Time to Legalize Prostitution - The Daily Beast. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/why-it-s-time-to-legalize-prostitution.html. [Accessed 19 April 2016].
• Legalized Prostitution Debate | Debate.org. 2016. Legalized Prostitution Debate | Debate.org. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.debate.org/legalized-prostitution/. [Accessed 19 April 2016].
• Immordino, G., 2015. Regulating prostitution: A health risk approach. In Journal of Public Economics, 121, P14-31.
• Cho, Seo-Young, 2013. Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?. In World Development, 41, P67-82.
• Niemi, Johanna, 2010. What We Talk About When We Talk About Buying Sex. Violence Against Women, Vol. 16 Issue 2, P159-172.

LGBT - World Status

LGBT Love

Firstly, let me introduce what is LGBT? LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. This may not so common in Malaysia but it's very common in foreign countries. Nowadays, some of the countries are recognize "same sex marriage", mostly located in Americas and Western European. Besides, USA and Brazil have the highest transgender population in the World and followed by Philippines, Thailand and India.

The options you will never see in Malaysia

How many countries had take into consideration of same sex spouse and transgender population? Actually not many, most of the country ignore them. However, some of the countries especially western, they are care of LGBT status and reserved the rights of LGBT. For example they give option to select "she-male" in a gender column or they have option to disclose the relationship under same sex spouse and etc. These "rare" options, why I said "rare" is because we never see this in Malaysia. However, this is "common" in Western countries, "common" is because they are open-minded and they think LGBT s normal and not a special group.

Love is gender blind

Have the majority of peoples in this world accepted LGBT term? Most of the people think heterosexual is normal, LGBT group are abnormal, especially in conservative countries. My argument is, if you think that LGBT are abnormal, then how about a heterosexual relationship that 80 years old man married a 21 years old young lady? So why contempt LGBT? No one can contempt a LOVE couple, regardless of gender.

When it's come to the word - "LOVE", there is no right and wrong. Nobody have the rights to judge whether this is acceptable or opposition. LOVE is just more than a game for TWO, as long as you think this is the way you want, don't be afraid to fight.

List of references:

• LGBT Rights Around The World . 2016. LGBT Rights Around The World . [ONLINE] Available at: http://infographicworld.com/lgbt-rights-around-world/. [Accessed 26 March 2016].
• Explore: International | Human Rights Campaign. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.hrc.org/explore/topic/international. [Accessed 26 March 2016].

What is it to be Truly Malaysian?

We are Malaysian

If your nationality is Malaysian, your parents are Malaysian and you stay in Malaysia, does it mean you are "Truly Malaysian"? Have you ever think about who have the eligible to say "I am a TRULY MALAYSIAN"? From my point of view, there are a few ways to authenticate we are a Truly Malaysian, which are our Language, Food and Culture.

Language

We know "mix" language

Malaysians are quite talented on learning language, this is also because of we have three main ethnicity - Malay, Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. We learnt each others language, we have main language to communicate with each others, we also have "mix" language which only Malaysian know the meaning. I give a example here: Pakcik, mee goreng "mai tauge" (mai tauge = don't want beansprout). This is "rojak" (mix) language that only Malaysian know it.

Food

Tasty local foods

Malaysia has a lots of tasty foods, there are some signature local foods that we should know as a Truly Malaysian, for example: Nasi Lemak, Roti Canai, Char Koay Teow, Laksa and etc. We are willing to drive few hours for tasty food like travel to Ipoh during weekends just for good food, the famous chicken rice, soya bean and yong-tau-foo. Even when we are travelling overseas, we will start to miss the foods after a few days. Someone said: when it comes to food, all argument are forgotten. So, can you imagine the power of FOOD! 

Culture

A symbol of UNITY

Different ethnicity will have their own culture. As a Truly Malaysian, we respect each others' culture, we dress up the traditional attire of the ethnicity and we celebrating the festivals together. We emphasize on ONE MALAYSIA, regardless of you and me... we are not individual because we are unity and we are "WE".

I believe everyone of us have our own definition on "what is it to be Truly Malaysian"? Whatever it is, as long as we can do something good to the society, regardless big or small contribution is, we are Truly Malaysian.

I am a Truly Malaysian. Are you?



List of references:

• What it means to be ‘Truly Malaysian’ | Free Malaysia Today. 2016. What it means to be ‘Truly Malaysian’ | Free Malaysia Today. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/03/27/what-it-means-to-be-truly-malaysian/. [Accessed 21 March 2016].
• 10 ways you know you’re Malaysian | Negaraku | Astro . 2016. 10 ways you know you’re Malaysian | Negaraku | Astro . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.astro.com.my/negaraku/ArticleDetails?articleId=2389&catId=92. [Accessed 21 March 2016].

Who Am I?

I am Minion...

"Oh, I have a blog!". This is my first blog writing, lets talk something about me. I am a funny, friendly and happy-go-lucky person. I do not have wonderful life but I am consider a lucky one in this world. Yes, I am lucky because I stay with my parents, have income, have car, have friends. You may say this is not special, everyone should have this. However, they are millions people in this world do not have what we have now. Therefore, I said I am the lucky one and you too.

Just like it this way...

I love Minion, just recently. I never watch their movie, but I like Minion with no reason, just like it. I like to watch Minion's song and advertisement thru YouTube. They are very funny, helps me to release stress.

My hobbies are sleeping, eating, and travel. If I stay at home doing nothing, definitely I will sleep whole day. I like to bring my mum go to eat delicious and special foods, we both enjoy food. Even go to travel, we also non-stop eating and shopping.

This is me.