Catégorie : World People

Linked to our presentation of The Electronic Intifada on January 8, 2006.

Laurie King-Irani is a co-founder of Electronic Intifada. She is a social anthropologist, freelance writer and journalist. She has conducted anthropological field research on local politics and family structures in Nazareth and Beirut. Former editor of Middle East Report, she now lives and works in British Columbia.

Laurie King-Irani

She edited the Middle East Report Magazine, published by the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) from 1998-2000.

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Linked to our presentation of Can Ordinary People Regain Their Power of Decision. Liée à nos deux publications Le droit, instrument concret de la démocratie – et – Investir tous les lieux de pouvoir.

Updated and re-organized on June 23, 2007.

Nuri Albala is a Lawyer (Bar Association, Paris Appeal Court) since 1966, Member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (New Delhi / Brussels), Chairman of the International Inquiry Committee « Basic Human Rights and Globalization », Founder member of « The Observatory on Globalization » (France).

He says: « I was sent for human rights inquiry missions by several NGOs (Iran 5 times, Argentina, Colombia .) and for human rights-teaching missions either by NGOs (Paraguay, Uruguay) or by the H.R. High Commissionneer of the United Nations (Haïti) ». (asef.org).

Nuri Albala – France

CALL TO SET UP THE COMMITTEE

Seattle; Nice; Prague; Gòteborg; … and then Genoa. Every time, the same scenario: those who represent the mighty of this word meet and take decisions affecting the future of our planet; while those who speak for non-governmental organizations, for citizen associations, for trade-unions and what is known as sociai movements or the civil society get together and affirm that they, as citizens, must have control over what the mighty of this word are doing.

Time and time again, there are grave incidents, even tragic incidents such as those that happened in Genoa.

Greatly concerned about these tragic events, a group of lawyers of different backgrounds have decided ta mobilize for action.

The basic rights of human beings include: freedom of expression; freedom to demonstrate; freedom to come and go; it is these rights and others that are being threatened today.

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Chibli Mallat was born in Beirut in 1960. After studies in Lebanon, France, the US and the UK, he taught law at the University of London for a decade, where he also served as Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law.

Chibli Mallat – Lebanon

He left London in 1995 to return to legal practise in Beirut as principal of Mallat Law Offices, a long-established law firm with a renewed focus on international law. He also pursued his academic career at Université Saint-Joseph, where he holds the first Jean Monnet Chair of European Law to be conferred by the European Union in the Middle East.

Also linked to our presentation of Iraq Initiative – European Colleague on January 3, 2006.

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Linked with Beyond the Law, and with the Human Rights Center.

Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health. He was the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) until December 1995. Since 1993, he has severed on several medicolegal investigations as an « Expert on Mission » to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Eric Stover, HR activist and writer – USA

In March and April 1995, he conducted a survey of mass graves throughout Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In June 1984, Mr. Stover testified for the prosecution at the trial of leaders of the military junta which ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

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Biography: Luc Walleyn was born in 1949, and has been an advocate since 1972. He is a specialist in immigration law, human rights, and humanitarian law. He is also supply judge (Juge de Paix) in Schaerbeek-Brussels, occasional lecturer at universities in Antwerp and Paris, and author of many publications, mainly on immigration law.

Luc Walleyn; Human Rights Lawyer

Walleyn was member of the Council of the Brussels Bar Association, and served as president of the organization Avocats sans Frontiéres (Lawyers without Borders) until last year. He participated in ASF programs in Rwanda, Burundi and Kosovo and represented the organization at the diplomatic conference on the International Criminal Court in Rome in 1998.

Linked to our presentation of Lawyers without Borders on December 30, 2005, and their website.

Also linked to our presentation of Rwanda Genocide Suspects On Tria on December 30, 2005.

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Guest of the ilb 2004 in Berlin, Christian Tomuschat was born in Stettin, Germany, in 1936. From 1985 to 1996 he was a member of the Human Rights Commission of the UN, and since then has been an independent advisor to various other international bodies.

Christian Tomuschat – Germany

He is Professor at Humboldt University and Director of the Institute for European and International Law.

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Born in South Africa in 1941, Judge Navanethem Pillay has been both a symbol and a standard-bearer for women’s rights in her country, in the region, and throughout the world. She works for Pro-Femmes Twese Hamw.

Navanethem Pillay, Judge – South Africa

She received her Bachelor of Arts and her Bachelor of Law degrees from Natal University in South Africa and later a Master of Law and Doctor of Juridical Science at Harvard University, U.S.A.

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Alvaro Vargas Llosa is Director of the Center on Global Prosperity. He writes on his hompage: it is a tragic fact that half of the world’s population is living in abject poverty and misery.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa – Peru

Approximately 10 percent of the present world population (roughly 600 million people) is estimated to exist at or below an equivalent economic level of $1 per day and approximately half of the world population (3 billion people) live at or below an equivalent economic level of $2 per day.

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Biography: Samantha Power was born in Ireland, grew up in America, became a journalist and war correspondent, and is the author of the acclaimed book: A PROBLEM FROM HELL, exploring why our country did nothing to stop the genocides of the 20th century.

Samantha Power – USA

Ms. Power is Lecturer in Public Policy and was Founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

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From the author of A Suitable Boy, this masterful fusion of memoir, biography and history creates an extraordinary tapestry of India, the Third Reich and the Second World War, Auschwitz and the Holocaust, Israel and Palestine, post-war Germany and 1970s Britain.

Vikram Seth – Bangladesh and England

Vikram Seth’s Two Lives is both a chronicle of a violent century seen through the eyes of two survivors and an intimate portrait of their friendship, marriage and complex love.

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