Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Linked to our presentation of SUMMARY REPORT OF THE YAOUNDE COLLOQUIUM of February 4, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation of African Civil Society for the Information Society ACSIS

and the CEFEPROD, a NGO with ECOSOC status, concomitantly Coordinator of the Central African Sub-region Civil Society under the African Civil Society for the Information Society

both of February 4, 2006.

Delphine NANA MEKOUNTE – Cameroun

Présidente ACSIS ( African Civil Society for the Information Society), Representante de SCASI (la Famille Africaine sur la Société de l’Information).

She is also General Coordinator of CEFEPROD, concomitantly Coordinator of the Central African Sub-region Civil Society under the African Civil Society for the Information Society and Representative of the African Civil Society at the World Bureau of WSIS,

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Linked to our presentation on Association for Women’s Rights in Development of February 3, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation on again op-icescr of February 3, 2006.

Magdalena Sepúlveda – Chile & Colombia

First: In the context of UPEACE Activities, Magdalena Sepúlveda is giving the following course: Global and Regional Human Rights Mechanisms, next Feb 27 – Mar 03, 2006, Category: International Law and Human Rights, Location: Council Room. Location: University for Peace, San José, Costa Rica.

Bio: Dr. Magdalena Sepulveda is a Chilean lawyer. She got her graduation in 2000 at the University of Essex, Human Rights Center.

She holds a Ph.D in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and an LL.M in human rights law from University of Essex, UK. She lectures at several universities in Latin America and has provided technical assistance and training on human rights to NGOs, IGOs and governments. Magdalena has worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and was the Co-Director of the Department of International Law and Human Rights of the United Nations affiliated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Linked to our (french spoken) presentation ‘violence contre les femmes vient à 91% de l’entourage’ of January 2, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation on Rethinking Islam of January 20, 2006.

Also linked t our presentation on Safia Hussaini – Nigeria of October 31, 2005.

And linked to our presentation Moslems Protest for pictures of January 3, 2006.

She says: « Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out NO! »

Taslima Nasreen – Bangladesh, a physician, a writer, a radical feminist, human rights activist and a secular humanist.

She says:  »They have made Noorjahan stand in a hole in the courtyard, there she stands, submerged to her waist with head hanging. They are throwing stones at Noorjahan, those stones are striking my body. »

She says also: « If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can’t accept that religion. »

She says: « The political parties use religion for their own interests and whenever they find any criticism about religion, they can’t tolerate it. »

Images of beaten, hanged, dying, desperate and violented women.

Taslima Nasreen says: ‘Humankind is facing an uncertain future. The probability of new kinds of rivalry and conflict looms large. In particular, the conflict is between two different ideas, secularism and fundamentalism. I don’t agree with those who think the conflict is between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam, or Judaism and Islam. After all there are fundamentalists in every religious community. I don’t agree with those people who think that the crusades of the Middle Ages are going to be repeated soon. Nor do I think that this is a conflict between the East and the West. To me, this conflict is basically between modern, rational, logical thinking and irrational, blind faith. To me, this is a conflict between modernity and anti-modernism. While some strive to go forward, others strive to go backward. It is a conflict between the future and the past, between innovation and tradition, between those who value freedom and those who do not.’

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The Glass Ceiling in the Netherlands (for women to rise high level responsibility), Part I – The Dutch Paradox (a discussion) – Dr. Eva Latham, President, Human Rights Teaching International in The Hague, feels the problem in the Netherlands has deep, and unique, cultural roots:

Eva Latham – Netherlands

« It is not only that men do nothing to promote equality in policy measures, but what I observe is also that women who have the power to push for those policies, do not do so. Mostly these are women who themselves got through the glass ceiling by the help of their relationship with men on an individual basis, be it in politics or otherwise. So what you see in the Netherlands, at least when you see women who have broken through the glass ceiling, is that other mechanisms than « gender equality policies » were the reason.

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• 2006-01-01: Eric Stover – USA;
• 2006-01-02: Jemma Hasratyan – Armenia;
• 2006-01-03: Chibli Mallat – Lebanon;
• 2006-01-04: Rela Mazali – Israel;
• 2006-01-05: Zazi Sadou – Algeria;
• 2006-01-06: Nuri Albala – France;
• 2006-01-07: Margaret Dongo – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-01-08: Laurie King-Irani – Canada;
• 2006-01-09: Florian Klenk – Austria;
• 2006-01-09: Tolekan Ismailova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2006-01-10: Manfred Nowak – Austria;
• 2006-01-11: Irina Grushevaya – Belarus;
• 2006-01-12: Alfred Sirleaf – Liberia;
• 2006-01-13: Shami Chakrabarti – India & England;
• 2006-01-14: Usha Menon – India;
• 2006-01-15: Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan;
• 2006-01-16: Alfred W. McCoy – USA;
• 2006-01-17: Silja J.A. Talvi – USA;
• 2006-01-18: John Shattuck – USA;
• 2006-01-19: Hero Ahmad – Iraq ;
• 2006-01-20: Ziauddin Sardar – Pakistan;
• 2006-01-21: Claire Mahon – Australia & Switzerland;
• 2006-01-22: Rémy Herrera – France;
• 2006-01-23: Eric Toussaint – Belgium;
• 2006-01-24: Aminata Dramane Traore – Mali;
• 2006-01-25: Wahu Kaara – Kenya;
• 2006-01-26: Noelí Pocaterra – Venezuela;
• 2006-01-27: Domitila Barrios de Chungara – Bolivia;
• 2006-01-28: Schafik Handal – El Salvador 1930 – 2006;
• 2006-01-29: Divina Frau-Meigs – France;
• 2006-01-30: George Alagiah – England-Africa-Sri Lanka;
• 2006-01-31: Jaribu Hill – USA;

Linked to our presentation of HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY on January 30, 2006.

Linked also to our presentation of Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights on January 31, 2006.

And linked to our presentation of Economy and Human Rights – one on January 30, 2006.

Jaribu Hill – USA

She is the Executive Director and Founder of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights.

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George Aligiah is a Journalist raising humanitarian issues. He was born in 1955 in Sri Lanka, but moved to Ghana when he was just 5 years old. Alagiah was there at a time when African Independence was just emerging and this has been at the core of his interests. This eventually led to George Alagiah’s career in television reporting and correspondence.

George Alagiah – England

He grew up in Ghana but he attended Durham University in England, where he obtained his degree in Politics. He started a career in print journalism with South Magazine where he worked as an African Correspondent in Zimbabwe for several years before being appointed the African Editor of the magazine. Seven years later in 1989, George Alagiah moved on to the BBC where he undertook the position of South African correspondent.

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Linked to our presentation of Taskforce on Education, Academia and Research on January 28, 2006.

Linked to our presentation of Education, academia and research on January 28, 2006.

Divina Frau-Meigs. She is an American Studies- and Media Sociology -teacher at the ParisIII-Sorbonne University.

Divina Frau-Meigs – France

She studied in Paris, Stanford and at the Communication School of Annenberg (University of Pennsylvania).

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Khaleej Times Online: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Schafik Handal, a communist guerrilla commander during El Salvador’s brutal 12-year civil war and a former presidential candidate, died of a heart attack on Tuesday at the age of 75.

Schafik Handal – El Salvador

Handal was a senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, rebel group that fought a series of US-backed right-wing governments throughout the 1980s in a war that claimed around 75,000 lives.

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