Con el objetivo de mejorar el bienestar de sus colaboradores y visitantes, el Centro Cultural de Cali se pone a punto en este 2022 con las recientes inversiones que se ejecutaron en este edificio donde opera la Secretaría de Cultura de Cali.
Con el objetivo de mejorar el bienestar del gran equipo humano detrás de la cultura en Cali, se dio apertura a la oficina de ‘Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo’, ubicada en el primer piso; este espacio cuenta con dos desfibriladores para atención en el Salón Madera y el Auditorio.
Para el disfrute y goce de los espacios al aire libre de la edificación, se instalaron ocho juegos de mesas, sombrillas y sillas para el esparcimiento y el uso de los diferentes colaboradores y visitantes a esta entidad.
La misión del equipo de la Unidad de Apoyo a la Gestión va dirigido a brindar un ambiente laboral agradable e inspirador para que la cultura siga en movimiento.
«La mejor inversión que se puede hacer en una empresa sea pública o privada, es aquella que se hace pensando en su capital humano, en su equipo de colaboradores», así describe Robert Madrigal, director de la Unidad de Apoyo a la Gestión de la Secretaría de Cultura.
Igualmente, fueron remodeladas las cocinetas de los tres pisos de esta edificación patrimonial, las cuales fueron dotadas para uso de los colaboradores.
Con estas obras también se propende por el bienestar y un clima laboral agradable en el que los procesos administrativos y de creación vayan de la mano en sincronía.
The man dubbed a leader of newly arriving Afghan refugees in Wausau, Wisconsin, was profiled in the local media as a U.S. ally and someone who had been persecuted by the Taliban in Afghanistan. He had plans to open a restaurant to give his new community a taste of Afghan cuisine.
But less than two months after settling into a rented apartment with his wife and six children, the refugee was arrested on charges of sexual assault in the fourth degree.
The unidentified victim, according to Wausau police department, was a woman who was helping the family’s resettlement.
Although he has been released on a signature bond, the 40-year-old has not spoken about the criminal charge against him and did not respond to VOA questions. As with all defendants in U.S. courts, he is presumed innocent until convicted.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have been evacuated to the U.S. since the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government last August because of fears they could be targeted by the Taliban.
Aid agencies say many of the newly arrived refugees face primarily housing and employment challenges as they resettle in communities across the U.S.
Some also experience cultural shock as they navigate through the intricacies of life in America.
“[We are] aware that there are cases of Afghan evacuees allegedly committing acts of interpersonal violence,” Emily Gilkinson told VOA. She is a spokeswoman for the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), which has helped the resettlement of some 6,000 Afghan refugees in Wisconsin and other states.
Three aid agencies involved in the resettlement of Afghan refugees in the U.S. said they have no records of such incidents. VOA found public reports of four Afghan refugees allegedly arrested on violence and sexual assault charges since September 2021.
Mohammad Attaie and his wife Deena, newly arrived from Afghanistan, get assistance from medical translator Jahannaz Afshar making a doctor’s appointment at the Valley Health Center TB/Refugee Program in San Jose, California on Dec. 9, 2021.
Cultural education
Resettlement programs are funded by the U.S. government and one key requirement is cultural orientation.
“We provide robust cultural orientation classes to newly arrived refugees,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS).
Classes take 30 to 60 minutes and deal with health care, employment, personal finance, transportation, safety, education and other topics.
“The curriculum and process of delivering cultural orientation is something that ECDC continues to improve in order to better prepare newcomers for success in American society,” said Gilkinson.
One Afghan refugee in Wisconsin who asked to remain anonymous said his cultural orientation classes were short and mostly dealt with hypothetical situations.
“I think practical learning can be more important. Some of us will need cultural advising even after we settle in our new homes,” he said.
Resettlement agencies say they will continue to assist refugees in finding jobs and learning the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in their new life in the U.S.
FILE – Afghan refugees walk alongside temporary housing in Liberty Village on Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst in Trenton, N.J., Dec. 2, 2021.
Hate crimes
Refugees and aid agencies applaud what they call a generous influx of support for the newly arrived Afghans from individuals and groups all over the country.
“I’ve never seen as generous and kind people as the Americans,” said Attaullah Rahmani, an Afghan refugee.
But the Afghan refugees are arriving in the U.S. at a time when the FBI is reporting a surge of racially inspired hate crimes, especially against people of Asian origin.
Although there is no aggregated data about instances of hate crimes involving Afghan refugees, there are isolated reports.
In late January, the FBI started investigating an alleged hate crime incident involving two Afghan refugees in Owensboro, Kentucky, local media reported.
In another incident, stickers with the message “Afghan refugee hunting permit” were seen at a university campus in Michigan last year.
Two refugees who spent about two months at Ford Dix in New Jersey as their resettlement cases were processed said they received lectures on racial and religious sensitivities in the U.S.
“They showed us signs which represent white supremacy and said we should avoid those people,” Ahmad Mohib, one of the refugees told VOA.
FILE – Afghan refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, Sept. 1, 2021.
Domestic violence
Isolated incidents of domestic violence were first reported in refugee processing centers at U.S. military bases.
Afghanistan ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which prohibits and criminalizes gender-based violence, in 2003. In 2009, Afghanistan also enacted a law on elimination of violence against women. However, human rights organization say violence against Afghan women remains prevalent and the Afghan justice system often fails female victims.
“Domestic violence happens in every community,” said Naheed Samadi Bahram, U.S. director for Women for Afghan Women, a nongovernmental organization advocating for the rights of Afghan women and girls. She told VOA that interpersonal relations among the refugees are particularly strained because of the traumas they have experienced.
Other resettlement agencies have also tracked extreme stress and trauma among the Afghan refugees.
“The impact of losing the only home you’ve ever known, of leaving family behind, cannot be overstated,” said LIRS’s Vignarajah.
Bahram said her organization has offered awareness to some refugees about the consequences of domestic violence here in the U.S., which is different than how it’s dealt with in Afghanistan.
“Our main problem is language,” said Tamana Kohistani, who resettled in Virginia with her husband and three children in December. “Not knowing English here is like we don’t know anything and we can’t say anything as well.”
In a letter, 133 cultural leaders, citizens and politicians from Medellin expressed their disagreement with the mayor of that city, Daniel Quintero. “Medellin deserves another mayor”, is the title of the letter, in which the signatories say that the local president has “disappointed”.
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“Those of us who sign these notes join the concerns of many people because of what is happening today with the mayor and the mayor’s office of Medellin, which can be summed up in two facts: the loss of confidence in the mayor’s office and its mayor, and the loss of spaces for conversation and collective construction,” it reads.
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Among the criticisms of the president, they point out that Quintero “destroys confidence in the public, by governing with lies and with the worst of politics: the negotiation of positions and contracts for the benefit of private sectors close to the darkest political clans of the city. and the country.”
In addition, they assure that the “recent transformation process in Medellin” has been ignored and they blame it for ignoring the work that different sectors of society have done together. “In the worst years of our violence, all those sectors were able to sit down together, based on our differences, to build common paths,” they explain.
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Daniel Quintero, Mayor of Medellin
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Medellin’s town hall
The signatories also point out that Quintero is not “progressive” or “independent.” They affirm that he had the opportunity to “go down in the history of Medellin as a good mayor” for having obtained the highest vote in the history there and for the possibility – already wasted, they say – of “continuing and improving the main programs and projects that Medellín has managed to achieve because it has a solid institutional framework”.
Another of the points that they reject is the “political management” of: Public Companies of Medellin, the Good Start program, INDER, Metroparks and the Botanical Garden. Additionally, they criticize him for “confronting private companies (…) by classifying them as mafia” in order, as they say, “to open space for some of these companies to be bought by foreign capital.”
Added to the above are criticisms of the management of garbage collection and the reduction of the budget of the Ministry of Culture.
Finally, those who signed the letter conclude that in the city “the deterioration in the quality of life is evident, further aggravated by the pandemic. But the path chosen by Quintero does not lead us to assume, confront or resolve these problems and needs. Quite the opposite: their way of governing puts us at high risk as a city and as a society”.
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Vehicle mobility is one of the problems affecting Valledupar.
According to the report of the Municipal Traffic Secretariat, around 20,000 vehicles and 40,000 motorcycles are registered. The figure could be double, taking into account that other vehicles registered in other transit agencies such as La Paz and San Diego (Cesar) also circulate in the city.
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Road chaos in the capital of Cesar
we have found that the invasion of public space is our biggest problem. On two and three lane roads, which should be used to speed up circulation, they are occupied by other vehicles
Most of these vehicles invade the public space of this city. Every day, cars parked on both sides of the street, drivers who stop to buy on any corner, motorcycles that circulate on prohibited roads, without caring about their social behavior, are observed.
This is the main factor causing the road chaos in the capital of Cesar, a barrier that prevents progress in the development of mobility in this area of the country.
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“During the tours and diagnoses, we have found that the invasion of public space is our biggest problem in terms of mobility. On two- and three-lane roads that should be used to speed up vehicular traffic, they are being occupied by other vehicles,” explained Manuel Palacio, Valledupar’s transit director.
Increase in road accidents
These actions are for the evaluation of a photodetection project for drivers who are poorly parked, which we want to start implementing from next March”
This situation also affects the increase in road accidents in this locality. According to statistics provided by this sector, in December of last year there were 32 deaths as a result of these accidents, a higher percentage than in 2019.
For the articulation of a better system in the mobility roadmapthis dependency has been developing a cultural pedagogical strategy that allows optimization of the road network and will be replicated in different sectors of the city.
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“The idea is to reduce delays and increase traffic flow, especially during the hours of greatest traffic congestion. This will allow students, pedestrians, and drivers to move normally,” the official stressed.
The initiative will also serve as an instrument to subtract the bad habits of the vallenatos around compliance with traffic regulations. Cultural training comparisons
It will be accompanied by permanent controls in which 50 pedagogical traffic regulators and ten police officers will participate, who will impose ‘cultural training’ subpoenas on all vehicles that are poorly parked.
Parking spaces available
“We hope that 30 more agents accompany us in these controls, through an agreement that we are going to establish with the police for an annual value of 800 million pesos, where we will also incorporate a support team,” Palacio stressed.
During the educational days, people will be reminded to identify the areas where parking is prohibited. They will know what the parking spaces availablein addition to the areas where parking is allowed and how they can do it in these sectors.
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“These actions are for the evaluation of a photodetection project for drivers who are poorly parked, which we want to start implementing from next March,” said the secretary.
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Ceremonia de la declaración del monumento por las víctimas como patrimonio nacional del Perú, este martes.Paolo Aguilar (EFE)
Nueve años después de la presión de víctimas de la violencia que afectó a Perú entre 1980 y 2000, el Ministerio de Cultura ha reconocido este martes como patrimonio cultural de la nación El ojo que llora, un lugar de memoria que dignifica a 32.000 personas muertas y desaparecidas durante el conflicto armado interno, cuyos nombres están escritos en cantos rodados. El memorial -compuesto por una gran escultura en granito en forma de montaña y un laberinto en espiral-suele ser visitado especialmente por quienes aún buscan los restos de sus parientes, pero desde su inauguración en 2005 ha sido vandalizado por simpatizantes del fujimorismo.
“Mi hermana sigue desaparecida y yo soy católica, pero este lugar no tiene esa connotación, es tan simbólico que da la posibilidad de reflexionar acerca del tiempo de la violencia, entender y no solo castigar, sino recobrar la humanidad perdida en la atrocidad”, comenta Carolina Oyague, quien va al monumento varias veces al año. Es la hermana de Dora Oyague, una de los nueve estudiantes de la universidad pública La Cantuta que fueron secuestrados y luego asesinados en 1992 por el destacamento militar Colina durante el régimen del autócrata Alberto Fujimori.
El grupo Colina justificaba sus actos como parte de la lucha contra el terrorismo del grupo maoísta Sendero Luminoso, pero tuvo como blancos a personas ajenas a la subversión y opositores al Gobierno. “Vengo aquí en su cumpleaños porque no tengo otro lugar donde rezarle, o a veces cuando había momentos difíciles de la judicialización del caso La Cantuta, porque siempre ha habido un ataque constante”, añade Oyague refiriéndose al juicio que concluyó con la condena de 25 años de prisión para Fujimori y su ex asesor y jefe de facto de las fuerzas armadas, Vladimiro Montesinos.
El ojo que llora fue una creación de la artista plástica holandesa Lika Mutal, que residía en el país andino desde 1968 y fue reconocida como personalidad meritoria de la cultura en 2015 por el Estado peruano, un año antes de fallecer. El espacio de conmemoración fue una iniciativa de la asociación civil Caminos por la Memoria, formada por defensores y activistas de derechos humanos, quienes desde 2013 gestionaron que el monumento fuera reconocido como patrimonio cultural, pero no había una norma que lo permitiera, explicó Carlos del Águila, director general de Museos del Ministerio de Cultura. La legislación existe desde 2020. El reconocimiento del memorial como patrimonio se debe a su valor artístico, histórico e intelectual, indica la resolución ministerial publicada en el diario oficial este martes.
El sitio está incluido desde hace algunos años en el mapa de la UNESCO de los Lugares de memoria vinculados a graves violaciones de los derechos humanos, en la categoría de monumento. En su realización colaboraron autoridades locales y la cooperación internacional, pero es administrado desde 2005 por la asociación civil. La primera ministra Mirtha Vásquez participó en la ceremonia de entrega de la resolución de declaratoria de patrimonio cultural, y calificó el monumento como “una obra que representa la resistencia de las personas que buscan justicia y reparación” y el trabajo heroico de sobrevivientes y familiares de víctimas de la violencia.
Vásquez dijo además que el período 1980-2000 del conflicto armado interno “ha dejado una serie de discursos hirientes”, en alusión a los sectores conservadores y fujimoristas que atacan el espacio ubicado en Lima y desacreditan llamando “terroristas” a los familiares de las víctimas de las matanzas de La Cantuta y Barrios Altos (de 1991, también a manos del Grupo Colina). “Durante muchos años nuestro Estado no estuvo a la altura del resarcimiento”, añadió la primera ministra.
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Los grupos de choque de ultraderecha que atacan el memorial suelen destruir las piedras que llevan los nombres de las víctimas o las retiran del espacio. En 2009, simpatizantes del fujimorismo echaron pintura naranja a la escultura y rompieron el mecanismo por el que brotaba agua de la piedra. “Era pintura de buque porque cepillábamos con aguarrás y no salía, me quedé con las manos lastimadas de tanto raspar”, recuerda Oyague, quien entonces fue una de las voluntarias que limpió la escultura.
“Los seres humanos tenemos un peso evolutivo porque somos capaces de enterrar a los muertos, pero quienes atacan este espacio de memoria no han sido capaces de respetar las pérdidas, lo han hecho incluso en ceremonias aquí. Un grupo de choque fujimorista se lanzó encima de la hija del líder sindical Saúl Cantoral (asesinado en 1989) cuando ella estaba hablando durante una conmemoración”, detalla la víctima del caso La Cantuta.
En los guijarros hay nombres de víctimas civiles, policías y militares, entre ellos, el de Rigoberto Tenorio, asesinado en una carretera en Ayacucho en 1984. “Mi esposo era instructor premilitar en un colegio y había sido policía. Han pasado 40 años y aún sigue desaparecido, desgraciadamente las autoridades dicen que no hay presupuesto suficiente para buscar sus restos. Hace cuatro años una resolución de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos recomienda al Estado peruano que repare a sus deudos y haga justicia, yo no pierdo la esperanza”, dice su viuda Cipriana Huamaní, de 74 años.
“He venido al Ojo que llora muchas veces, a todos los lugares de los desaparecidos en los últimos 40 años”, añade Huamaní. Durante la ceremonia del martes, la exintegrante de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación -que actuó entre 2002 y 2003- Sofía Macher destacó el aporte de la escultora Mutal como motivo para el reconocimiento del sitio como patrimonio cultural. “Ella creó este espacio que significa tanto para miles de personas, es un lugar para encontrarnos con las personas que ya no están y que deberían estar -civiles, policías, militares, ronderos, hombres, niños, mujeres-”, remarcó.
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Hubo despliegue de carabineros y seguridad ciudadana que mantuvo cortado el tránsito por las calles aledañas a Apoquindo, mientras se intentaba dilucidar si se trataba de un aparato real o solo simulado.
Fue solicitado el GOPE al lugar para investigar la situación.
Finalmente y tras cerca de una hora, el personal descartó cualquier amenaza en el lugar. Recordemos que ya han sido dos los artefactos que han detonado en la última semana: uno frente a una sucursal de BancoEstado en Apoquindo con Manquehue y otro frente a un edificio de oficinas en Providencia.
