- CHILD TRAFFICKING: Rights and Political Challenges [conference]

Date: 24 October 2003
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Every year 1,2 million children, girls and boys, become the victims of trafficking. Far away from their homes they are used as cheap labour forces and are physically abused. The trade in children for labour, prostitution and adoption exists also in Belgium.

The struggle against this extreme violation of children's rights is slowly developing. Yet adequate data is hard to come by. Solutions are differing and the public opinion underestimates the role it can play in the combat against child trafficking.

Is the problem worsening or has the situation improved? What information can be gained from field experiences? How can the specific needs of girls and boys who are the victims of trafficking be addressed ?

The conference, which is organised by UNICEF Belgium, the "Nederlandse Vrouwenraad" (NVR) and the Commission for Women and Development, will try to bring elements of an answer to these questions.

For more information, contact:
UNICEF Belgium, Karen Kets
Tel: 00 32 2 230 5970 ; Fax : 00 32 2 230 3462
Email: kkets@unicef.be ; Website: www.unicef.be/childtrafficking/

Visit: http://www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=3703

how you keep track of time was a huge issue, clocks
speed of light is constant theory of relativity can be falsifiable, mass bends space, time (goes into orbit)

string theory doesn't have many predictions

Refract > Reflect > Contstruct > add to make bigger > Destruct > add to make smaller (laser or ripple tank)

accurate theory tells you where things might be, quantum mechanics tells you everything about particles

you never get exact ansers but probability (electrons don't go in orbits, this was something they taught me in high school) "God doesn't play dice with the universe." Anti-matter is real (PET) Einstein, that bas**ard, said, "Quantum mechanics is wrong because my relativity theory doesn't say it exists"

this guy makes no sense.........the spin is opposite. I am getting dizzy, but you probably can't tell (he is actually saying this in class!)

Gedanken-when you propose an experiment, someone might pick up on your theory, if your name happens to be Einstein (what the Hell?)He apparantly does not like Einstein.

What are YOUR HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS? Is it possible to have both waves and particles of light? Your dark adjusted eye can detect one photon. WHOOOHOO One photon can interfere with itself. A spherical wave has three dimensions, think of a circular wave made from throwing a pebble in water. THIS GUY RAMBLES ON! This is the way the world works, just because you don't like it. Wrapp your mind around ideas using words. Semantics, what is it?

Oh here's Q.E. quantum entanglement. Here he goes with his damn confusion again. Here a special kind of crystal!! Oh god, I am actually paying for this man to teach me nothing?!
wave functions use imaginary numbers/ Woah I am bored, this guy is stealing my money, I have to sit here and listen to alien pseudoscience and the babble of this madman. I have to actually make my own pseudoscience?

OH! Lets talk about Killing Cats! (Schrodingers's Cat) Collapseable wave function is behind this > place a radioactive element and a counter and a vile of nerve gas and a cat in a box. You don't know if the radioactive element has decayed until you open the box. inside cat is alive, inside cat is dead.

SICK

this guy rambles "or here" "or here"

the cat is not alive or dead until you open the box

WHAT?

Does this make perfect sense to anyone?

Anyone?

OK, I am getting a B in this class. Drawing pics on the side of my notebook and pretending to take notes really does work!