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死亡した男子生徒が倒れているのが見つかった１０月１１日当日のマンション広場＝大津市
いじめの噂はあった
男子生徒の死亡原因がわからないまま約３週間が経過した１１月２日。大津市教委は、市役所で緊急記者会見を開き、男子生徒が死亡する前、校内でいじめを受けていた事実を明らかにした。
市教委は１０月１７～１９日に全校生徒８５９人を対象に文書でアンケート。約８割の生徒が回答し、この中に転落死した男子生徒に対していじめが行われていたとの記述があったため、生徒たちに直接聞き取りを始めた。
その結果、男子生徒が死亡の約１カ月前から、同級生数人に殴られたり、ズボンをずらされたりするいじめを受けていたことが明らかになった。ほかにも、死んだハチを食べさせられそうになる▽腕で首を絞められる▽昼食のパンを食べられる－などの行為があったことがわかった。
こうしたいじめを行っていた数人の同級生は、聞き取りに「ふざけていただけで、いじめていたわけではない」と話したという。
死亡した男子生徒の担任の男性教諭は９月以降、「男子生徒がいじめられている」との噂を別の生徒から聞いており、１０月１日と５日に実際に、男子生徒が同級生とけんかしているような光景を目撃。死亡した男子生徒に直接「いじめられているのではないか」と問うと「大丈夫。同級生と仲よくしたい」と答えたため、それ以上は調査しなかったという。
また、学校側も９月に、父親から男子生徒の金遣いについて２回にわたり相談を受けたが、父親が「息子には言わないでほしい」と話したことから調査をしなかった。
記者会見した市教委の葛野一美・教育部次長は「担任の教諭はいじめの兆候に気付きながら、男子生徒の『大丈夫』との発言をうのみにしてしまった。市教委としても責任を感じている」としながらも、「転落死との因果関係は分からない」とした。
一方で、「学校側の調査には限界がある」とし、いじめについてこれ以上調査しないとした。
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署は、２人とも容疑を認めていると説明している。
「やらないと火花は出ない」高倉健さん、被災地思い銀幕へ
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新作映画の撮影中、いつも持ち歩いていた台本に、１枚の写真を貼り付けている。震災の残骸の中、唇をかみしめて歩く少年。新聞から切り抜いた。
「別件逮捕で違法捜査」覚醒剤事件で無罪 福岡
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判決によると、勝葉被告は昨年１月１９日早朝、北九州市小倉北区で、正当な理由なくカッターナイフを所持していたとして軽犯罪法違反の疑いで福岡県警に現行犯逮捕された。翌２０日、令状による尿検査で覚せい剤の陽性反応が出た。
大泉一夫裁判長は軽犯罪法違反容疑での逮捕を「実質的に、令状によらずに覚せい剤使用の疑いで逮捕した別件逮捕で、令状主義の精神を無視した重大な違法がある」と判断。その上で、検察側が提出した尿の鑑定書について「証拠として採用することは別件逮捕を助長する恐れがある」として証拠能力を否定、「ほかの証拠がなく犯罪の証明がない」と結論付けた。
‘I get daily racist abuse for being a coloured taxi driver’
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By Gordon Deegan
Thursday January 05 2012A NIGERIAN taxi driver, who is a qualified accountant, has revealed how he receives daily racist abuse and is scared to work as a cabbie in Ireland after suffering two assaults by passengers.
Married father-of-four Bartholomew Omoifo (36) spoke out as a man was jailed for viciously attacking him in his car.
"For a coloured man, working as a taxi driver is very dangerous. I am afraid to go working because of previous experiences. One is very scared."
Azriel Higgins (26) was jailed for nine months at Ennis District Court yesterday for the assault on Mr Omoifo on June 5, 2010.
Mr Omoifo said that he had been the victim of a subsequent assault by another passenger just four months ago.
He admitted: “It is very tough as a black taxi driver. If I had a choice I wouldn't be working as a taxi driver but I have to support my home."
Mr Omoifo earlier told the court that Higgins, of Creggaun, Tobarteascain, Ennis, Co Clare, called him a "bastard nigger" before headbutting him in the mouth knocking out two front teeth.
Higgins -- who pleaded guilty to the assault and has 14 previous convictions -- attacked Mr Omoifo after refusing to pay a €15 fare.
Mr Omoifo required four stitches with dental work costing €2,400. Damage done to the taxi cost €761.
He described the assault as "very, very traumatic". He said: "I suffered needlessly. I have two false teeth now and I was out of work for three weeks."
On the daily racist abuse, Mr Omoifo said: "Passengers flag you down, open the door and when they see you are coloured, they say 'F*** off'. I get this every day."
He added: "I am relieved that I have been given the privilege in court to state what really happened. I have been given respect. At least it shows me that there is justice for us and gives me the assurance that the protection is there and we can get justice."
He has been living in Ireland for eight years but believes that some people are "venting their anger at the economy" on immigrants.
- Gordon Deegan
Racist abuse is driving me out of Ireland - doctor
By Niall O'Connor
Wednesday January 04 2012
A PAKISTANI doctor recruited by the HSE says he is considering leaving Ireland after suffering racist abuse in a nightclub.
Dr Syed Kamran Haider Bukhari has spoken out about his hurt and distress after being kicked and punched in a nightclub by a female reveller who later branded him a 'n*****'.
Dr Bukhari -- one of 100 doctors recruited to Ireland by the HSE -- told the Herald that the incident has caused him to reconsider whether he will remain in Ireland.
"I love this country. I work extremely hard and I have made so many friends and have had so many good experiences here.
"But this is not the first time I have been subject to racism. Somebody has to stand up and stay 'stop'," he said.
"I don't know if I want to remain here any longer.
"I was going to bring my two daughters and wife over from Pakistan but why would I want to have them living among racism?
Suffered
"I don't want them subjected to the type of attitudes and attacks that I've suffered from," he added.
The 32-year-old junior doctor works in Drogheda for the Louth-Meath Mental Health Services.
He said that he was out socialising with friends on Monday night when he was assaulted by a young female.
"A young girl who was clearly drunk approached me on the dance floor before shouting nasty names at me. She punched and slapped me but she was taken away by her friends who apologised.
"But then she came back. She was shouting racial expressions at me before punching and kicking me. I couldn't defend myself, it's not in my nature to [retaliate].
"I just took the abuse but I couldn't believe the reaction of the nightclub."
Dr Bukhari told the Herald that when he approached the night club staff they "laughed at me and made fun of me because I'm a psychiatric worker".
He said he has spoken to local gardai and that he intends to make a formal complaint.
"I'm extremely upset to be honest. I've given every ounce of my energy to my job where I work with children and adolescents.
"The words used to describe me were nothing short of racism and I feel it is a really major problem in Ireland.
"But I am more upset at the response of the authorities and the night club itself. They are supposed to protect people.
"I don't want to make myself out as a victim but I do want to highlight that racism is at large here."
Attempts to contact the night club were unsuccessful this morning.
Dr Bukhari added that the incident has led him to question whether he will remain in Ireland after his contract with the HSE expires in 2013.
"I don't know if I will stay in Ireland after my contract expires," he said.
He added: "I certainly won't bring my family over now."
Mississauga couple lose bid to keep their kids in neighbourhood school
Published On Tue Jan 03 2012
A Mississauga couple who received death threats from staff inside their children’s school have lost their legal fight to have the kids returned to the neighbourhood school.
“I’m devastated,” Katarina Grewal said, shortly after the decision came down inside an Osgoode Hall courtroom Tuesday afternoon. “What mother wouldn’t be devastated to see your kids hurting every day? They’re now the victims.”
After Grewal and her husband, Ashoak, filed an application for an injunction against the Peel District School Board, a divisional court of the Ontario Superior Court ruled in favour of the board’s original decision to remove the children and transfer them to a different school.
Director of education Tony Pontes said the decision was taken for the children’s own safety.
“I’m not prepared to take that risk,” Pontes said after the ruling, of the possibility of allowing the children to return. “This has always been about the children’s safety, not the father.”
Ashoak Grewal has raised race-based complaints about the staff at the school in the past, and that’s the real reason the board wants the children out, argued his lawyer, Richard Parker.
After a racially charged altercation between Grewal and a teacher at Oscar Peterson, the board commissioned an independent third-party report in 2010. It revealed a history of race-based issues among the staff themselves, some of whom were described as being “resistant” to change as the ethnic demographics of the community have evolved.
“What better way to get rid of him than remove the children from the school?” Parker told the panel of three judges.
Parker described four death threats sent between late September and mid-October to Grewal, which Peel Region police quickly determined had come from a Peel District School Board computer within Oscar Peterson.
He argued that Grewal, not his children, was the target of the threats and also questioned how the children will be safer at another school, considering the perpetrator could easily locate them.
“There are cameras now installed at (Oscar Peterson) and everyone there knows about this,” Parker argued, suggesting the children would be safer there than at any other school. His motion to introduce a statement from a Peel police officer who, according to Parker, said it was safe for the children to return, was denied.
Board lawyer Roy Filion pointed out that the fourth and final email was a “sexual assault” threat against Grewal’s daughter and that since police have only narrowed their list of suspects to 16 staff at the school, there’s still a very real threat.
Parker also questioned why the board didn’t inform the Grewals that under board policy they had the right to appeal the decision to the trustees, the board’s elected officials. Ultimately, bureaucrats made the decision.
Justice David Aston explained that the panel’s role was simply to determined whether, under the requested judicial review, the Peel Board had a statutory right to keep the kids out of Oscar Peterson and whether that decision was reasonable. Other evidence and arguments could be dealt with in a different court, Aston said.
When Parker asked him what’s next for the children, Aston replied, “It leaves them in limbo for the moment, until there’s some negotiated agreement.”
Pontes said the children can go to any school in the board and their transportation will be covered. “Our only goal is we want the children back in school.”
Asked if the children would be allowed back to their school if the perpetrator is caught, Pontes said a decision would be made if that time comes.
He stressed there is no threat to any other students at Oscar Peterson. “The issue is between the perpetrator and the two children and their family.”
Grewal said the children will continue to be schooled at home, which the board has been paying for since late November. He added that he’s deeply troubled by Tuesday’s decision.
“With all the talk of dealing with bullying in this province, what this says is any student, any staff or parent or community member who wants to bully someone else can just send an anonymous death threat and the student will be removed from their school. That’s how they will victimize them.”
'Slavery By Another Name' explores 'shameful' U.S. history
January 4, 2012 | 6:23 pm
"Slavery By Another Name," a new PBS documentary, explores and upends what producers say is a widely accepted notion: that slavery in America came to a halt with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film shows that while chattel slavery ended in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pushed into forced labor that exposed them to brutality, abuse and death.
Or as narrator Laurence Fishburne says introducing the film, African Americans "were no longer slaves, but not yet free." Men were arrested, forced to work without pay, and were mistreated by cruel masters. The system of forced labor took place in the North and South, and lasted into the 20th century.
"It could have been different and should have been different," said Douglas A. Blackmon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that inspired the film and gave it its title, during a session during the PBS portion of the first day of the Television Critics Assn. press tour. Blaming the government, Blackmon called the continuation of slavery "an astonishing failure of modern society."
He added, "It's a story of how America failed," showing how whites had lost faith that blacks could be fully integrated into the mainstream.
The 90-minute film, directed by Sam Pollard ("Eyes on The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads") will premiere Feb. 13.
Descendants of slave owners and slaves participated in the film. Susan Tuggle Barone, who spoke during the session, told of learning how her great-grandfather John Williams killed 11 black laborers who were held illegally on his farm. It was a long-buried secret in her family.
"It was devastating for my family to find out about this," she said. "I'm glad my grandmother wasn't alive to find out about this. But it was important to learn the truth."
Sharon Malone, who is married to Atty. Gen. Eric Holder, spoke of how her uncle was a victim of Alabama's forced labor system. She said her family spoke little about his time growing up in the South.
She said she has no anger or bitterness about that part of her past. "In fact, I'm more grateful to my parents than I otherwise would have been," she said. "They did not pass on that bitterness to their children. To us, they were unburdened by their past, and that gave us faith and hope. It's something that needs to be known."
Aborigines paid far less in public service
by: Miles Kemp From: The Advertiser January 04, 2012 12:00am 5 comments
ABORIGINAL workers in the SA public service are paid an average $10,000 less than non-Aboriginal colleagues.
This is despite a near 50-year ban on employment discrimination.
For the first time, public service departments have been asked to reveal in annual reports how much they pay Aboriginal workers compared with others, allowing The Advertiser to compare pay rates across the public service.
Non-Aboriginal workers were paid on average $59,200 and Aboriginal workers $49,600.
Law Society president Ralph Bonig said a lack of tertiary qualifications continued to mean fewer promotional opportunities for Aboriginal workers in the public service.
"A law degree is one qualification considered desirable for career advancement in the public service and that is one area in which we have very few students, and great efforts are being made by the profession to improve these numbers," he said.
Aboriginal people were first awarded equal pay for equal work in the 1960s and the current inequality is based on fewer promotional opportunities and a larger attrition rate.
A 10-year-old minimum target for the number of Aboriginal people employed in the pubic service, 2 per cent, has also lead to an influx of younger and lower-paid Aboriginal workers.
South Australia passed the Prohibition of Discrimination Act in 1966 and in 1984 created the Equal Opportunity Tribunal which prosecutes cases of racial discrimination.
Faith Thomas, 78, who became the first Aboriginal public servant in SA when she entered as a nurse in 1954, said she made good friends in the service but was not welcomed by management.
"I was considered an embarrassment being Aboriginal, even in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, and I didn't get promoted in two years," she said.
"I still keep in touch with the people I worked with and we just had our 57th reunion.
"It doesn't surprise me that workers now are still earning less when I remember their attitudes at the time - it would take a long time to change that."
食品の放射能―安全・安心につなげよ
食品に含まれる放射性物質について、福島第一原発の事故以来使われてきた暫定基準にかわり、４月からようやく新しい基準が適用される。
厚生労働省の審議会に昨年末に報告された基準案は、世界的に見ても厳しい。
大切なのは、これを国民の安心につなげることだ。基準値が意味することを、科学的な根拠とともに十分に説明し、国民の納得を得ることが欠かせない。
新基準は、原発事故で放出されて食品に含まれる放射性セシウムの許容被曝（ひばく）線量が、暫定基準の年間５ミリシーベルトから１ミリシーベルトに強化されたのに対応するものだ。年齢別の摂取量など最も厳しい想定で設定された。
野菜や穀類、肉、魚などの一般食品は１キロ当たり１００ベクレルと暫定基準（５００ベクレル）の５分の１になる。新たに乳児用食品に５０ベクレルの基準が設けられたほか、飲料水はすべての人が毎日飲むことから、暫定基準の２００ベクレルから１０ベクレルに強化された。
この規制によって、食べ物からの被曝はどうなるのか。
厚労省は実際に流通している食品を購入して、平均的な食事をした場合にセシウムで被曝する１年間の線量を計算した。
その結果、福島県で０．０１９ミリシーベルト、東京都で０．００３ミリシーベルトと、新しい許容被曝線量の１ミリシーベルトをすでに大きく下回っていた。基準が厳しくなることで、今後さらに下がりそうだ。
ちなみに、多くの食品にもともと含まれている放射性カリウムによるものは、福島、東京ともに約０．２ミリシーベルトだった。こちらは日本での年間平均１．５ミリシーベルトの自然放射線に含まれ、ふだんから浴びているものだ。
こうした調査を重ね、規制のあり方の再検討に役立てたり、消費者の判断材料として提供したりすることが大切だ。
新基準の実施に当たっては、課題もある。まず、基準値を超える食品が出回らないようにするための検査態勢の整備が欠かせない。とくに、飲料水は精度の高い測定が必要になる。
コメや牛肉などは対応に時間がかかるとして数カ月の経過措置を設けるというが、消費者を戸惑わせ、基準そのものへの信頼性を失わせかねない。
規制の強化は、生産現場への影響も大きい。農林水産省は新基準を受けて、コメの作付けについて新たな禁止策をとる。魚介類では、海底にいるヒラメなど新基準値を超えるものが続出しており、監視が必要だ。
里親制度―なり手を掘り起こそう
東日本大震災で親を失った子どもとその養育家庭を支援しようと、仙台市に「東北・ＳＯＳ子どもの村情報センター」ができた。
設立したのはＮＰＯ法人「子どもの村福岡」。親と暮らせない事情がある子と里親のために一昨年春、住宅を５戸そろえた「村」を福岡市に開いた。専門家の支援を受けつつ、里親が家庭的環境で養育する全国初の取り組みだ。
仙台市のセンターも、宮城県内に同じような「子どもの村東北」（仮称）を１４年６月に開く計画だ。長期的な支援の輪を広げ、子どもや養育家庭を支える仕組みにしたい。
振り返ると、第２次大戦後、戦災孤児が世界中で社会問題になった。欧米では、オーストリアで４９年、国際ＮＧＯ「ＳＯＳ子どもの村」が設立されたのを機に、里親家庭に託される流れが広がった。
一方、日本では児童養護施設での養育が主流になった。しかも、施設は定員４０人以上の大規模型が７割を占める。
子どもは家庭的な環境で育てるという国際社会の潮流から立ち遅れ、日本は国連子どもの権利委員会から３回も厳しい勧告を受けている。
養育環境が子どもの成長に及ぼす影響は大きい。厚生労働省も昨年春、養護が必要な場合は「原則、里親」とするガイドラインを作った。政府が施設中心から家庭的養護へとかじを切ったのは画期的だ。１０年後の里親委託率をいまの１０％から３０％に増やすことをめざす。
福岡市でも、０４年度の里親委託率は６．９％と低かった。だが、０５年に市が「子どもＮＰＯセンター福岡」に里親普及事業を委託したのを機に昨年３月には２４．８％と飛躍的に伸びた。
市民に里親制度に関心を持ってもらおうと、「新しい絆」フォーラムが毎年２回開かれた。出前講座など多彩なメニューが生まれ、参加者が２年ほどかけて里親登録する流れができた。この歩みの中から世界１３３カ国目の「子どもの村福岡」も誕生した。
「行政の仕事だと思っていたことが市民の課題になった。それが最も大きかった」と子どもの村福岡の大谷順子専務理事。意識の変化が、里親のなり手を掘り起こしたといえる。
親の病気や虐待で、家庭で暮らせない子は全国に約４万７千人。登録里親は１０年３月で７１８０人、里子は４０５５人だ。
市民や関係機関と上手に連携した福岡市の取り組みを全国に広げていきたい。
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