Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Goes with ‘Assuming Authority‘.

Aminata Dramane Traoré (born 1942) is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and is a former coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme.

Aminata Dramane Traoré

She is the current Coordinator of ‘Forum pour l’autre Mali/ Forum for the other Mali’ and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005.

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Linked with WSF 2006 – Third World Dept on January 21, 2006. Added February 7, 2008: and linked with Crise à la Banque mondiale et au FMI.

Eric Toussaint is the President of CADTM Belgium (Comité pour l’Annullation des Dettes du Tiers Monde / Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World’s Debt).

Eric Toussaint – Belgium

December 8, 2005 he writes, together with Millet Damien, President (CADTM France) on ‘Europe solidaires sans frontières’ (Europe solidarity without borders):

The World Bank’s bombast about good governance, corruption and reducing poverty is a farce. In reality, the World Bank is supporting an oil pipeline project that allows a notorious dictator to fill his pockets and thumb his nose at the world. Meanwhile, the people of Chad are bleeding themselves dry to repay a monumental debt without enjoying the fruits of a natural resource that is rightly theirs. We propose to take a closer look at a so-called neo-liberal model that has been forced on Chad by the international institutions for the benefit of the major powers and world finance.

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Linked to our presentation of Good Governance against Good Government ? on January 16, 2006.

Rémy Herrera – France

Rémy Herrera, economist, is a CNRS researcher (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, National Centre for Scientific Research) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

books: Cuba Revolutionnaire (Hardcover);

See a database with articles of Rémy Herrera: Interrogation de la base des publications MATISSE.

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Linked with op-icescr – again in Geneva of January 31, 2006.

Added February 28, 2008: her photo and this link of Human Rights Tool.org.

Claire Mahon – Consultant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She joined the Internat. Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in November 2004 as a Legal Consultant responsible for ICJ’s work on economic, social and cultural rights, in particular the campaign for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR).

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Claire Mahon – Australia & Switzerland

An Australian and New Zealand national, she obtained her LLB (with honours) and BA in International Relations from the Australian National University in Canberra, and later went on to study International Law and International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

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Linked to our presentation of Rethinking Islam on Jan. 20, 2006.

Ziauddin Sardar writes: the truth about the torture of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq is simple. The Bush administration sanctioned it, the military deployed it, and the American public gave it a tacit nod of approval. Most of the people who were and are being tortured are innocent. And they are all Muslims.

Ziauddin Sardar – Pakistan

The Torture Papers provides a blow-by-blow account of how the US adopted torture as a standard policy after the events of 11 September 2001. A few days after the attacks, the deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo wrote a memo in which he reasoned that because Afghanistan under the Taliban was a « failed state » and because al-Qaeda was not a state, the Geneva Conventions were applicable neither to the Taliban nor to Qaeda operatives, given that the conventions dealt only with « states ». (Read more of this article in the ‘New Statesman‘).

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Mr. Shattuck is a 1970 graduate of Yale Law School. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Rhode Island, Kenyon College, the University of Western Bohemia in the Czech Republic, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. He received his BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1965 and an MA with First Class Honors in law from Cambridge University in 1967. (Read more on JFKlibrary).

John Shattuck – USA

Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Short bio.

Paul Kirk, in an introduction speak in December 2003 about John Shattuck: In keeping with the ideals that were at the heart of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, we focus this evening on the topic of freedom and human rights.

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Silja J.A. Talvi’s writings on prison and criminal justice issues have appeared in such publications as In These Times (where she is a senior editor), the Christian Science Monitor and AlterNet. She is a three-time SPJ Western Washington Journalism Award recipient, and her work appears in the anthology Prison Nation (2003). She is based in Seattle. Her work appears in the anthology, « Prison Nation » (Routledge, 2003). See also her story about suffering killing women on Zmag.

Silja J.A. Talvi – USA

CRIMINALIZING MOTHERHOOD, by Silja J.A. Talvi, 12/2003, published in Media Awareness Project:

Regina McKnight is doing twelve years in prison for a stillbirth, carving out a dangerous intersection between the drug war and the antichoice movement. In the eyes of the South Carolina Attorney General’s office, McKnight committed murder.

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