Article by 
Cinders
posted
27 days ago
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NOTE: I screened all of these entries personally. If you submitted a poem, but don't see it up here, it's because you didn't follow one of the Five Rules. If I doubted a poem's relation to the theme and asked you to justify it, and you did not justify it at all, or well, then you won't find your poem here. If you didn't reply to my questions asking you to fix your poem so it fit into the five rules linked above, then your poem won't be here. This is to clear up any confusion.
If, however, you did follow all the rules and don't see it up here, it was probably due to human error, so by all means e-mail me and let me know.
Change in Judging: There will be no individual judging. A pick will be opened up next week to vote for your favorite poem, as there were only a handful of entries.
And now, to the poems!
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Opinion by
Cinders
posted
29 days ago
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December 1st is World AIDS Day, which makes it the perfect day to begin Human Rights Awareness Month here on Fanpop.
Now the disease itself is not a human rights concern. True, the HIV epidemic is devastating, but we can't charge the virus with human rights violations. What is a human rights concern is the lack of preventative measures, as well as treatment for those infected, the world over. Secondly, the stigma of being HIV positive is still a source of major discrimination. And that is definitely a human rights concern.
In order to help with the discrimination problem, the World AIDS Day Official Website has a list of facts about AIDS. I'm going to list some of them here.
HIV is spread through bodily fluids, specifically blood, semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk. You can not catch HIV by touching, hugging, or even kissing someone who is infected. The most common ways of spreading the disease are through unprotected sex (any kind of sexual activity, including vaginal, anal, and oral), sharing needles, and from mother to child in pregnancy or...
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Guide by
Cinders
posted
1 month ago
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Following the format of the Fanpop Poetry Contest in January of this year, the Human Rights Spot is sponsoring the Fanpop Human Rights Poetry contest for Human Rights Awareness Month in December.
Rules
1) All poems submitted must be related, in some way, shape or form, to the human rights theme.
2) Poems may have been written at any time, so long as they are the property of the submitting user.
3) Poems must be sixty lines or less, or under 400 words.
4) Submissions are limited to one poem per user.
5) The deadline for submitting poetry is November 24th.
Submission Process
If you wish to submit a poem to the contest, please send me a private message which includes your poem in full, and "Poetry Contest Submission" in the title. On November 24th, I will gather up all of the submissions and post them in a single soapbox where they will be able to be viewed altogether. Instead of your user name residing next to your work, you will be assigned a number (such as "Contestant Number 4") which...
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