Catégorie : World People

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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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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Linked with Lao Movement for Human Rights LMHR, with Les Lao-Hmongs et leurs droits de l’home, and with about human rights in Laos.

And with Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand and Douangdeuane Bounyavong – Laos, with Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples, with
Texts about Economy and Indigenous Peoples, with The Online Burma/Myanmar Library, and with Indigenous Webs for Information.

She says, that « the health system (of the Lao-Hmong minority) is characterized by high mortality and morbidity, low use, poor quality of services and inefficient public spending … nearly a third of children between the age of 6 and 14 do not attend school », and « about one half » of the students who start school drop out before completing Grade 5″, according to this report. Its conclusion suggested that in order to ensure the success of the LPDR’s eradication of poverty plan, the LPDR government « must do all that is possible to ensure that all national budget allocations, international loans or donor funds reach their intended project targets, and do not become part of the cycle of externally funded corruption ». She also denounced the desperate plight of the Lao-Hmong minority from the Saysomboun and the Bolikhamsay regions, « which is being tracked down day and night in the jungle by the armed forces, which is being denied the right to food and is forced to live out of roots and leaves, unable to cultivate the land or pick the fruits from the forest, unable to build permanent homes, for fear of being spotted and killed by the army ».

Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France

She works as Président for the Lao Movement for Human Rights

LAOS –Absence of the Economic and Social Rights denounced at the UN – Geneva, Wednesday 30 March 2005: At the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Vanida S. THEPHSOUVANH, president of the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR) and member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party, on behalf of which she spoke on Wednesday afternoon, denounced the situation of health service and education in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) as being « at the very limit of what is acceptable », pointing more particularly at the situation of the 80% portion of the population living in rural zones, in spite of the hundreds of million euros of aids received from the international community.

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Linked with Police terror in postcard state.

In 1980, she became a reporter for the independent journal Le Phare. When the journal stopped publication, she became political chief at Maghreb, and then at Réalités. When Maghreb ceased publication because of the food riots in 1983, she became editor-in-chief of Gazette Touristique and founded l’Hebdo Touristique. At the same time, she was overseeing the opposition newspaper El Mawkif. (wikipedia).

Sihem Bensedrine (born October 28, 1950) is a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist. She was born at La Marsa, near Tunis and went to France to study at the university in Toulouse, where she took a degree in philosophy. She founded the publishing house Arcs in 1988, but it became bankrupt in 1992 because of the human rights crisis. In 1998, she became literary chief for the publishing house Noir sur Blanc.

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Linked with Nils Daulaire’s speech, with ‘about available health care‘, with Nils Daulaire’s Keynote address, with Importance of Global Alliances … , and with Global Health Council.

Listen to the GHC Panel, Intro with Nils Daulaire, Stan Bernstein, By Ian on Tuesday, May 30, 2006.

Read: Hands on Health Care. He is president and CEO of the Global Health Council, the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. The Council, founded in 1972*, has built a global coalition in more than 100 countries that promotes improvement and equity in health for all the world’s citizens.

Listen audio or see video about: The Global Health Crises and Child Survival.

He says: « It is wrong when a woman dies because she cannot afford the basic care that could save her life. And it is socially and politically destabilizing to have a world divided into medical ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ « .

Nils Daulaire – USA

He works as President and CEO for the Global Health Council.

Read his Keynote Address at International Conference on Healthcare Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS.

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Linked with The African Women’s Initiative AWI, and with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

She says: « My long-term goal is to save the lives of women. There is so much death in Africa, and so much disease — malaria and AIDS are just part of the problem. I want to work with the most vulnerable to improve their lives. »

Millicent Obaso works as a reproductive health officer in the Great Lakes region of Africa – she works in fourteen countries. She is married for the second time and has three children. But she says she has paid a price for her professional career – the cost was a painful divorce from her first husband which was not accepted at her first by her family. (Listen to her video on BBC).

Millicent Obaso – Kenya

She works as Senior Officer for the African Women’s Initiative AWI, and for the American Red Cross. See also: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Earlier this year, American Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy appointed Millicent Obaso as special advisor on international women’s health issues.

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Linked with Servicio Paz y Justicia.

He got The Nobel Peace Prize 1980.

He said: « Our hands seek to speak the language of those who labor, to add to the effort to construct a new world solidarity founded on love, justice, liberty and truth » (in the Nobellecture, December 1980).

Read the article ‘Eternal Debts‘, by Adolfo Perez Esquivel, August 2004. Same in german, in french, in russian, in spanish, in arabian.
He wrote:  » … you closed your ears and your heart when the United Nations, churches, humanitarian and human rights organizations demanded that the rule of law and the consideration of the people had to prevail. You were not interested in hearing it » … (in A Letter to President Bush, April 30, 2003).

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Brazil

As a child, he admired peace heroes like Mahatama Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. As an adult, he desired to put his faith into action as he had seen these men do. In the early 1970s, he traveled to Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Honduras to work for peace with local movements, often aiding poor peasants in their struggles against the large landowners. In 1976, he was arrested in Ecuador and expelled from the country during a pilgrimage across Latin America. He was arrested again on April 4, 1977 in Argentina, where he was detained for fourteen months without a trial and was subjected to psychological and physical torture.

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First my remark: we are not willing and not able to imagine fellows abel to create such an horror (including the biggest question of all, why the United States would do this to itself). Maybe a bad guy like Osama, but not some compatriots living with us. We do not WANT imagine they could create this horror, just to allow them war-on-terror, with hope for world power .

But who said, facts go always much farer than our imagination?

So let’s look at some questions:

Dylan Avery, together with Korey Rove and Jason Bermas put a puzzle of questions together to a film named Loose Change2. You can download it on 911 blogger.com.

Dylan Avery – USA

FIVE years after September 11, more than one-third of Americans believe the US Government was complicit in the attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. This extraordinary reaction to one of the most widely witnessed, reported and investigated incidents of modern times has been fuelled by what adherents like to call the « 9/11 Truth Movement ». (Read all on adelaide now, Sept. 11, 2006).

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Linked with Assuming Authority.

She says: « At some point, I realized that other women were not there—that I was alone in all the meetings ». And: « Why should their (women’s) ideas be left behind? I always remind people that we can’t ignore 54 percent of the country—whether in the army, in the police, in decision making. We are leaving a big part of the population out. I say all the time, don’t look at them as women, look at them as … people! As Rwandans ». (See on women waging peace).

Rose Kabuye – Rwanda

go to Harvard’s JFK Jr. Forum Video and Podcast Archive, click there on the Nov 13, 2001 video: ‘Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies‘, and listen to it (1h 21 minutes).

A difference that Kabuye has already made is with talking to women from other conflict areas. “In the course of a day, I work with women from both [Hutu and Tutsi] groups. We get new ideas and hear about new ways to tackle the obstacles we face.” Rwandans throughout the country have been trying to bridge the divide between Hutus and Tutsis.

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