There's a lot of volonce going on in Philly. In my opinion the most dangerous part of the city is 52nd and Market street It was not that long ago, that 52nd and Market were hailed as the "Main Street" of West Philly;seemingly it had so much to offer.

Thanks to tit being the state-of-the-art transportation hub, there is plenty of hustle and bustle as folks came from far and wide to take advantage of its unique shops, dynamite restaurants, and classy nightclubs.

But like so many other once-proud sections of the city, this area has suffered a devastating fall from grace.This formerly thriving thoroughfare is pockmarked with boarded-up storefronts, dive bars, careless drug dealers, and roaming bands of lost souls who lurk in the shadow of the Market-Frankford El.
living and growing up in the area and see it deteriorate is very painful i just wish that things can change for the better because is a thurving city of brotherly love where have all the love gone? i would hate to have my childern to grow up in this city because i'm so scraed that something jeapordize their future we need to clean up our acts and our cities

I think today was a great oppertunity for all of us kids at S.O .T .F. ( School of the future). I think that it was a big eyeopener to the people that came from the different countries, because they learned how we function and how we live and learn at the School of the future. To me this was a big eyeopener for me in general, because I learned about how things are being functioned outside of the country I live in. I really enjoyed it alot and I sure they did. I am happy i got to expeirence this today.

The British collected a number of Nepalese youngsters to the British armed forces. And they collected migrants to come and work for them. They used the migrants of Nepalese for employment purposes only. There are many villages in Nepal where labor migration has been established as a culture of a community.
Economic migration to the Middle East from South Asia and other parts of the world was spurred-on by the oil boom in the early 1970s.

Why do they need migrants to work for them?
How could they end migration?

the article I have read was about women and mi gration and
For a long time, the issue of women migrants has been low on the international policy agenda. Today, the world has a unique opportunity to change this: For the first time, government representatives from around the globe will be attending a United Nations session specifically devoted to migration. The 2006 High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development offers a critical opportunity to ensure that the voices of migrant women are heard. The explicit recognition of the human rights of women and the need for gender equality is a basic prerequisite of any sound, equitable and effective policy framework that seeks to manage migration in an orderly and humane manner
how do you feel about migration?
do you know anybody thats in migration?

what i read was about Every year millions of women working millions of jobs overseas send hundreds of millions of dollars in remittance funds back to their homes and communities. These funds go to fill hungry bellies, clothe and educate children, provide health care and generally improve living standards for loved ones left behind. For host countries, the labour of migrant women is so embedded into the very fabric of society that it goes virtually unnoticed. Migrant women toil in the households of working families, soothe the sick and comfort the elderly. They contribute their technical and professional expertise, pay taxes and quietly support a quality of life that many take for granted.

involuntary traficing is a very bad thing to do to people. i dont think that it was right to take people from there home town and moved them to where ever and treat them like they want to.
1. why do they do this?
2. do the people like when they do it?
3. if you dont go will they kill you?

The article I read was about Voluntary and Involuntary migration. It was basically talking about the different reasons why immigrants eave ther home palces and move to different places voluntary or involuntary. So they gave and example of a girl named Tina who was 27 years old. They talked about how she lefft Uganda to find her boyfriend, but where she lived was falling apart anyway; She went to go find her boyfriend in Manchester. Also how the girl Tina made it and found her boyfriend and she sent backserveral thousand pounds back to Uganda to plot land and herold house to be knocked down. This is basicallywhat this one article was about. This would be a case of voluntary migration because she wanted to leave where she lived. But some involuntary migration moght be because of natural disasters or life or death situations.

1. Why did you attend the UN conference?
I attended the UN Conference because at first I thought it was going to be fun.
2. What is your interest in learning about human rights/migration?
I really don't know
3. What do you already know about human rights/migration?
I laready know that everybody in thw world has some type of rights.
4. What did you learn at the conference?
I learned that the UN Iis trying to find ways to change and help the situation of migration.
5. What aspects are you interested in learning more about?
Irregular/ and regular migration
6. Do you know what the Millennium Development Goals are? If so, what do you know about them?
No i don't know

I really don't think that trafficing on women was a good thing to do because the people that did that to the women in their family. Because I wouldn't want them to do that to any of the many women in my family, So i wouldn't do it to nobody else. And thats just the way i feel about trafficing on women.

My reflection is i was in school and the principal said everybody go home and i didn't know why but when i got home and i watched the news i was kind of scared because my grandmom lives in New York and i thought she was going to get hurt.It impacted me alot because a few of my cousins died and thats how it impacted me.

hey everybody my name is Krystyna I go to School of the Future. Halloween is comming up I want to say to the people is to be carefull outside

What inspires you?
Tracy McGrady because he does his best in basketball and i try to do my best in life and school.

Tell us about an issue that matters to you and how you became aware and involved.
Violence because it goes on alot in my neighborhood and i gotta be in the house because drug dealers be having gun wars at night.I became involved because i try to keep my family in the house at a certain time.

Share your perspectives on what makes a good leader.
I good leader is a person who doesn't follow followers.A good leaders goes his own way and not with the crowd.

Do you think TakingITGlobal can help you achieve some of your goals? Have we already? Please tell us how.
It probably can because i wanna know how people live in China and on TakingITGlobal i can.

From looking at the pictures of the community I could tell that it might be a small town. With little stores and stands everywhere. This community is different from my community because here on the streets there are houses on them and the picture didn't show any houses or huts. It is also different from my community because we don't mountains just on the regular street. However it is similar to my community because they do have stores and stands just like my community does. The most interesting thing that I seen ion the picture was how the mountains was mostly seen on the streets. I think that is so different because over seas cou tries are very different from over here in America.

I think 9/11 has effected me in some ways because I am kind of scared to get on planes now. But also becasue we never know what can happen next. Something could happen closer to us instead of in places like New York (farther away). Or something could happen to people we are close to and I think we should be grateful. I responded to Jabria's entry.

In at least two senctences I learned that a leader should be a person who don't follow others. I also learned that a leader has good friendship.