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Mundo Futuro / Información - Aung San Suu Kyi, 19 años de detenciones y arrestos domiciliarios por defender sus ideas

Aung San Suu Kyi, 19 años de detenciones y arrestos domiciliarios por defender sus ideas

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Seis décadas después de la adopción de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, está por cumplir el respeto de unos derechos humanos universales e indivisibles, que permitan hacer efectivo el derecho a un nivel de vida digno y el ideal del ser humano libre. Sólo en 2007 1.252 personas fueron ejecutadas en 24 países, se documentó tortura y malos tratos en 81 países, en 45 países hay presos y presas de conciencia, 854 millones de personas sufren la tortura del hambre y 1.100 millones no tienen acceso a una vivienda digna.

La Premio Nobel de la Paz, Aung San Suu Kyi, la más conocida de los cerca de 2.100 presos políticos de Myanmar, cofundadora del principal partido de oposición, la Liga Nacional para la Democracia, ha pasado 13 de los últimos 19 años detenida, y desde 2003 está bajo arresto domiciliario.

Su continuada ausencia es un recordatorio de la represión existente en Myanmar y de que la promesa de un mundo en que todas las personas disfrutan de todos los derechos humanos sigue siendo traicionada.

En el 60 aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, exige la inmediata e incondicional puesta en libertad de Aung San Suu Kyi y pide a la comunidad internacional que asuman su compromiso con los derechos humanos proclamados en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos. Para que casos como el de Aung San Suu Kyi no sigan sucediendo.

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About Miss World - History: History of the contest, The 1950s, The 1960s, The 1970s, The 1980s, The 1990s, The start of a new century, Meet Eric Morley

Interview with Miss Brigite SANTOS - Angola

Miss World ™ is the original and most popular beauty pageant in the world. Each year young women from every country compete in front of over a billion television viewers.  Judges determine which contestant has the winning combination of beauty, glamour, poise and intelligence - all the ingredients needed to be crowned Miss World.   For the first time this year, you can be the judge on MissWorld.com.

Missworld.com is the official website for the Miss World ™ beauty pageant.  Now you can vote for Miss People's Choice – catapulting your favorite contestant to the final round of the official pageant.  Visit Contestants to learn more about and message the 2008 finalists, and enjoy all of the latest Miss World news, videos and photos throughout the site.

Just remember to Sign Up to make your vote count!  Sign Up is free and ensures that all the results are fair and valid.  Watch the finals on  13th December 2008 to see if your favorite takes the crown.

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History

History of the contest

The year was 1951. The competition was the first Miss World pageant, introduced as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations, and it was the audience it attracted who guaranteed its success.

Thanks to founder Eric Morley's PR expertise, the first Miss World pageant welcomed a global audience greater than international events like the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The BBC televised Miss World from 1959 to 1979 and Thames Television picked up the contract from 1980 to 1988. At its peak, the show claimed an audience of 27.5 million in Britain alone a figure comparable to that of a royal wedding Fifty years on from the first pageant, Miss World still pulls in the crowds and can boast an annual audience of 2.5 billion.

The press went to town - the world's most beautiful women, 26 in all, gathered together in one place and happy to smile at the battery of photographers.

The 1950s

The first Miss World, Sweden's Kiki Haakonson, was the first and last winner to be actually crowned in a two-piece swimsuit.

During the first decade of the pageant's success, the outfits of contestants continued to raise eyebrows and grab headlines. In 1959, Loretta Powell of the United States arrived at the House of Commons in London clad in a Stetson, ruffled shirt and cowboy trousers. She may have got away with wearing what at the time was considered a tad outrageous, but she didn't get away with her 'guns'. The two stern-faced coppers in charge demanded she hand over her 'firearms' - even copies are not allowed in the British Parliament.

The 1960s

In 1966, India enjoyed its first success and Reita Feria proved to be a popular winner. As articulate and charming as she was beautiful, she went on to qualify as a doctor, highly respected for her brains and expertise rather than her looks. The decade finished with Sweden's Eva Ruber Staier winning the title. Later making her name in movies, Eva had a sweet tooth and when asked how she would spend her prize money, told the waiting press that: 'I'll buy lots of chocolate.'

The 1970s

The first Miss World contest of the decade, hosted by the legendary Bob Hope, was marred by feminist protesters. The quick-witted comedian simply shook his head in wonderment and remarked, "Anyone who would try and break up an affair as wonderful as this has got to be some kind of dope."

In that 1970 Miss World, two black women - Jennifer Hosten of Grenada and Pearl Jansen of Africa South - claimed first and second place, something that had never happened before at a major international pageant.

Despite feminist protests, Miss World was achieving monumental television audiences throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In the UK, Miss World 1970 was the single most-watched show of the entire year.

Wilnelia Merced (Miss Puerto Rico) won the 1975 competition. Wilnelia enjoyed a successful reign. She went on to marry one of Britain's best loved entertainers Sir Bruce Forsyth.

By 1979 the show was topping 500 million viewers world-wide. Gina Swainson won the day, as the little island of Bermuda celebrated her victory by declaring a national holiday.

The 1980s

In 1980, major changes in the Miss World judging process were implemented. For the first time personality and intelligence came into the evaluation and, of equal importance was that vital statistics were no longer deemed vital.

In 1983, the last UK winner of Miss World, Sarah-Jane Hutt, from Poole in Dorset, took the title at The Royal Albert Hall. Three years later, Halle Berry, then Miss USA, stunned the judges and audiences when she wore a bikini featuring stars and ropes of beads during a parade of national costumes. At the time she was quoted as saying that she wanted "to catch the eye from the start." Halle failed to win the contest, but as an Oscar-winning Hollywood star with a string of smash hits under her belt, she almost certainly has recovered from the disappointment. The decade finished with the first-ever Polish winner Aneta Kreglicka.

The 1990s

The one and only time that Miss World was held in the United States was in 1991 and it was there, in Atlanta, Georgia, that Ninibeth Leal won her crown, before becoming one of Venezuela's most successful models.

The years 1992 to 1995 marked a particularly successful period for the Miss World contest as the finals moved to Sun City, South Africa and viewer figures increased from 1.2 billion to 1.8 billion.

The contestants were welcomed by none other than President Nelson Mandela and over one million people turned out to see them in Johannesburg.

In 1994 Aishwarya Rai became the second Indian winner after a 28 year gap, her win marking the start of a golden age for Indian contestants who took the crown in four out of the next seven years while Aishwarya went on to become Bollywood's biggest female star.

The show's first visit to the Indian continent came in 1996 when over 40,000 people turned out to watch the show at Bangalore's cricket stadium. Irene Skliva won the title of the first-ever Greek Miss World.

In 1999, the show came to London's Olympia. A few protesters turned up to throw flour bombs, but it merely prompted the late Eric Morley to quip, "It's just like the good old days. Who would have thought it would go on for half a century?" Who indeed?

The start of a new century

Miss World reached its half-century in the year 2000 and the contest returned to London, to the Millennium Dome, for the 50th anniversary show. A massive television audience of 2.3 billion witnessed India retain the Miss World crown and in the UK alone more than 8 million people tuned in during the two-hour broadcast on Channel 5.

Miss World 2001, Agbani Darego was the first black African winner and the following year Miss World was staged in her homeland, in Abuja, Nigeria.

The 2007 contest took place in the Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, in the People's Republic of China. The 106 contestants recorded the official torch relay anthem Light the Passion, Share the Dream for the 2008 Olympics Games as a major cooperation between the Beijing Olympic Committee and Miss World Ltd. The song had its first broadcast to a global audience at the 57th Miss World final on December 1 2007, when model Zhang Zilin became Miss World. Zhang was born in 1984, more than thirty years after the start of the Miss World pageant.

With Julia Morley as Chairman, Miss world continues to break records. With franchises in over 120 countries and fundraising topping £150 million, who knows what the rest of this century will bring for Britain's most successful ever international television show.

Meet Eric Morley

Eric Morley started his career at Mecca in 1946 as a £15-a-week PR man, and finished as chairman, taking what was, in effect, a small catering business and dance company and developing into a mighty conglomerate. As the country's top entertainment group, thanks to Morley's single-minded dedication, Mecca's interests encompassed bingo, gaming, ice skating, bowling alleys, discotheques and restaurants. With 15,000 employees, it also provided the catering and entertainment facilities for the major London-based football clubs - Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspurs.

Never one to rest on his laurels, the irrepressible Morley, created the BBC Come Dancing series in 1948, which became instantly famous for its tears, tantrums and miles of sequined netting and went on to become the longest-running television series in history. Buoyed by the success of Come Dancing Morley went on to develop a programme of competitions designed to encourage a better sense of dress among those who frequented dance halls.

Perhaps it was this, coupled with his innate understanding of human nature, and the recognition that every man and woman desired that brief flirtation with fame, that sewed the early seeds of a competition concept that was to become one the most talked-about, and successful the world has ever seen, Miss World, which has spanned more than 50 years of changing tastes and attitudes.

Eric Morley was loved and revered by a great many people - those who knew him well and those who admired him from afar.

An assiduous worker for charity, Eric with his wife Julia raised more than £100 million over the years for various causes. He completed the London Marathon when he was 63, despite a damaged hamstring.

He was also a long-time supporter of the Variety Club of Great Britain, and was a Barker in 1961 and Chief Barker in 1973, when he raised over £2 million. Indefatigable, he took on the role of President of Variety Clubs International in 1978, raising the funds to build the charity's Childrens' Hospital at King's College (he personally contributed the first £250,000), for the Wishing Well Appeal at Great Ormond Street, and for the Outward Bound Trust of which he was also president. Eric Morley passed away in 2000 at the age of 82, after suffering a heart attack. Bruce Forsyth spoke for people the world over when he said "Eric Morley was a one-off. People like this can never be replaced. He gave so much to so many. Eric was a giant of a man in every sense, one of the great humanitarians of the twentieth century."

Miss World 2008 is Kseniya SUKHINOVA

Miss World 2008 is Kseniya SUKHINOVA

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Miss Kseniya SUKHINOVA

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