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Saving the world with the Human Rights Declaration is a game..
On web there is a game in which you win points not killing people but with the Human Rights Declaration and the freedom of press. Considering the violence of many games, this game, created by Liberal Internation (LI) for the defence of human rights, is unusual.
The game- Your avatar, a serious UN Secretary General wearing a suit and tie, has to catch some objects coming down from the sky and it has to skirt other objects to not lose points. So it has to catch the Human Rights Declaration which is 100 points and takes in your arms the woman with the child who represents “refugees” (75 points), but also the other woman with the microphone who is freedom of expression and it’s 100 points. Other objects to catch to make points: the journal (freedom of press), the blue hat of ONU , the rice and the medical camp of Red Cross.
The difficulty is that you have also to skirt other objects as the political prisoner, a man orange-wearing, which could make you lose 75 points, the envelope with money which represents corruption, the child soldier, the kink (death penalty). The game is over if your avatar touches the death’s head which means the genocide.
In brief, your avatar has to work as a Un Secretary General- and not only- would do to promote peace and human rights, choosing the good instead of the bad.
The game ( www.saddleup.co.uk/liberalinternational ;) has been created by Liberal International, the world federation of liberal and democratic political parties, and it has the aim to protect human rights and to repeal everything which threatens them. Surely it’s very different from many others game on web in which killing people is a winning factor.
The reality- In a first moment the game could seem a little bit automatic, but there is also an educative process. In fact you can read information not only about your score but also about your world. So you can learn that more than 300,000 of children are forced to actively participate in armed conflicts or that refugees are persons owing to a well-founding fear of being persecuted for reason of race, religion, nationality, membership of a political or social groups and for that is outside of their country, or that death penalty is again in 68 countries.All this information and data about the real world are coming directly from the Onu. So you could also increase your points if you then answer to some question about this key-themes.
In fact the avatar can’t only be a puppet which moves from right to left, but it should have also a knowledge of the world.
It would be greater to think that if the avatar moves in this way to not catch the death’s head is because it knows that in the last 15 years there have been 3 genocides in which the International Commission has not intervened to stop, and it don’t want to make the same mistake.
