Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Linked with Plan Colombia and its Consequences in Ecuador, with A Human Rights Council’s statement.

She says: “And when we are with the others, on the edge of an eternal morning, will all of us have eaten breakfast?” (Cesár Vallejo, Peruvian poet).

She says also: « The worse attack on human rights is poverty ».

And she says: « The terrible poverty, and the desire that I felt together with the need to try to do something to remedy this situation, developed my religious vocation ». (Read about Sister Elsie Mong).

Elsie Monge – Ecuador

She works for the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights, and for the Ecuadorian Front for Human Rights (mentionned on Amnesty International).

She entered the missionary community of Maryknoll and worked with people who had gone astray. She denounced a murder during a radio transmission in Panama and was forced to leave the country. Back in Ecuador, her native country, Elsie Monge collaborated with agricultural cooperatives of afro-descendent peasants. Later, she started working with the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights, which she has directed since 1986.

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Linked with The Global African Congress GAC, with The Global African Congress GAC,  and with The Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome PTSS.

Women Who Are Shaping The World, A Leadership Summit, October 13, 2006, New York City, New York Marriott Marquis. Register here.

She holds workshops, for instance on Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, on Human Sexuality, or on African-American Male Youth Violence. (Read all on essence.com).

She says: “The nature of this work is such that each group first must see to their own healing, because no group can do another’s work” (about healing the Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, read the whole Interview).

Joy DeGruy-Leary – USA

She teaches social work at the Portland State University. See her new book ‘Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing’. (Read al on inthesetimes.com).

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Linked with Gender as a Tool in Building Peace, with Somalia – profiles, facts and reports; with Save Somali Women and Children SSWC, with Women defending Peace Conference, and with Women Peacemakers Program WWP.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She is a Visiting Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Member of Transitional Parliament of Somalia, Founder of Save Somali Women and Children SSWC, and Chairperson of The Sixth Clan.

Conference: « The Experience of Somali Women in Peace Building and Political Participation Amid Conflicts », with Hon. Mde. Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, Sunday, October 8, 2:00-4:00 p.m., at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave., Madison WI 53715 (USA). Come for an Intimate Sunday Afternoon Gathering for Coffee and Conversation. Details on speakers, agenda and registration for the Women’s Executive Leadership Summit are available by calling Mary Corbett at (608) 441-7330. (See on Tempo International).
She says: “Have one voice, and one interest as women”.

Elmi Asha Hagi Amin – Somalia

She works for ‘Save the Somali Women and Children’ SSWC.

Women’s summit features Somali peace-builder: The Hon. Mde. Asha Hagi Elmi Amin, a member of Somalia’s transitional parliament, founder of Save Somali Women and Children and chair of the Sixth Clan, will be a featured speaker at the Women’s Executive Leadership Summit on Thursday, Oct. 5, at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, 601 University Ave., Madison. Elmi, a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will speak about her relentless work to empower women and advance their political participation in the Somali peace process.

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Linked with Illicit International Transactions, with Lessons for US Policy in the Arab World, and with undergraduate study of International Political Economy.

He writes on his Homepage: Welcome to my homepage. I joined the faculty of the University of Puget Sound in 2004. I teach courses in international political economy, Middle East politics, and the illicit global economy. After receiving my PhD in political science from Columbia University in 1994, I spent a number of years teaching in Turkey and Egypt. I have also conducted research in Algeria and Morocco. My research interests include Algerian politics, Middle East political economy, and democratization. One of my current research projects is a comparative analysis of the effects of illicit transactions on reconstruction in Iraq, Palestine, and Algeria. I am also editing a special edition of Mediterranean Politics on Crime, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in the Mediterranean.

Bradford Dillman – USA

• See all about his publications on his website;
• Teachings;
• Current research;
• CV;
• The International Political Economy Program.
• His mail address.

Toward what type of political future is Morocco heading as it faces the democratization challenge? While Arab one-party regimes have clung to power by cracking down on the opposition, Morocco has taken a refreshingly different path. Its 1997 parliamentary elections were exceptionally free and fair, with an opposition-party coalition winning one third of the seats in the lower house.
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Linked with Islamist Parties in the Maghreb, with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik SWP.
She is a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.

Read: The Magnetic Pole Of Today’s World Is The West: ISABELLE WERENFELS interviews AMIN MAALOUF.

Read also: Opportunities and Risks in Rapprochement.

Isabelle Werenfels – Germany

Isabelle Werenfels, a researcher on North Africa for the Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, said: « The cartoons are pretty devastating » for the trial « because at this point it’s very important for Qaddafi to save face ». The Libyan public has been told for seven years that the Bulgarian nurses were responsible for the HIV infections, she said, and it will now be difficult for the government to come up with a different story.

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• 2006-09-01: Yuet Lin Yim – Hong Kong;
• 2006-09-02: Schuma Schumaher – Brazil;
• 2006-09-03: Devaki Jain – India;
• 2006-09-04: Michael W. Hodges – USA;
• 2006-09-05: James J. Puplava – USA;
• 2006-09-06: Bassam Tibi – Syria;
• 2006-09-07: Massimo Trombin – Luxembourg;
• 2006-09-08: Sunita Narain – India;
• 2006-09-09: Svetlana Gannushkina – Russian Federation;
• 2006-09-10: Guirong Tian – China;
• 2006-09-11: Thierry Fagart – Haiti & France;
• 2006-09-12: Stanford G. Mukasa – Zimbabwe;
• 2006-09-13: Rose Kabuye – Rwanda;
• 2006-09-14: Dylan Avery – USA;
• 2006-09-15: Palwasha Hassan – Afghanistan;
• 2006-09-16: Hildegard Goss-Mayr – Austria;
• 2006-09-17: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Brazil;
• 2006-09-18: María Cleofé Sumire López – Peru;
• 2006-09-19: Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka – Poland;
• 2006-09-20: Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo;
• 2006-09-21: Henny Yudea – Indonesia;
• 2006-09-22: Millicent Obaso – Kenya;
• 2006-09-23: Nils Daulaire – USA;
• 2006-09-24: Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon;
• 2006-09-25: Gabriela Ngirmang – Palau;
• 2006-09-26: Sihem Bensedrine – Tunis;
• 2006-09-27: Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos;
• 2006-09-28: Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel;
• 2006-09-29: Theodor Rathgeber – Germany;
• 2006-09-30: Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand.

Linked with Working out of disaster, with The Online Burma/Myanmar Library, and with stolen innocence.

Also linked with Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France, with Lao Movement for Human Rights LMHR, with Les Lao-Hmongs et leurs droits de l’homme, and with about human rights in Laos, with Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, with Douangdeuane Bounyavong – Laos.

The Belgian photojournalist Thierry Falise has covered South-East Asia and beyond since the mid-eighties, both features and news reporting (as a correspondent for Gamma photo agency and today for Bangkok-based Onasia photography agency). In 2003, TV colleague Vincent Reynaud and Falise were arrested in Laos after completing a forbidden story on a Hmong minority waiting for the return of its former American ally. Sentenced to 15 years of prison, the two reporters were released after five weeks in jail thanks to an international solidarity campaign. Falise also worked on corporate, NGOs and institutional assignments. In 2005, he published his first novel in French, “Les Petits Généraux de Yadana” – Anne Carrière). He is Based in Bangkok. (Read all on Thierry Falise).

Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand

Look at some of his photos made in Far-East.

He is a Belgian freelance reporter and a regular contributor to the French weekly magazine L’Express. He and the freelance French cameraman Reynaud were arrested in Xieng Khuang province (northeast of Vientiane) on 4 June 2003, along with the Rev. Naw Karl Mua, a US citizen of Hmong origin, and four Laotians.

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Linked with Adivasi.

He is Teaching assistant (Lehrbeauftragter) at the University of Kassel, Germany.

UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations: Theodor Rathgeber, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, April 2006 – Theodor Rathgeber summarizes the essential arguments for attributing responsibilities for human rights to transnational corporations, seeking in particular to respond to the concerns of trade unionists, but also business representatives. He reminds that on the whole, past experience with voluntary codes indicates the need for a coherent approach that can subject the natural dynamics of global systems to minimum standards of human rights. The easiest way to organize a body of rules like this would be within an international institutional framework that can apply a minimum of democratic, transparent and participatory procedures to implementing the contractual instruments … (Read all on Geneva-Office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung).

Theodor Rathgeber – Germany / see a better photo on Adivasikoordination.

He works for the German Human Rights Forum of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Germany. And he works for the Adivasikoordination.

Read: NGOs call on Member States to adopt Draft Convention on Enforced Disappearance, March 22, 2006.

Reform of the Commission on Human Rights: An introduction into the present debate on the reform of the Commission on Human Rights was given by Theodor Rathgeber on the basis of his paper “Reforming the UN Commission on Human Rights.

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