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My husband sold me to a brothel. I had to accept five or six clients a day. Once a client called me and another girl; he said he was with just one other man. In fact, there were 20 of them; they treated us so badly I wanted revenge. I wanted to kill the man who called us. Then I thought his family would suffer, so I left him alone.
Somaly Mam – Cambodia
Her book The Road to Innocence, by Somaly Mam, will be published in 2006, by Virago.
Forgiveness goes together with reconciliation. The one cannot be done without the other. Ahmed Kathrada, leader in the South African resistance and jail mate of Nelson Mandela.
Ahmed Mohamed « Kathy » Kathrada – South Africa
Ahmed Mohamed « Kathy » Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). While he was at Johannesburg Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr Yusuf Dadoo and the Cachalia brothers, leaders of the freedom movement.
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Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. Psychiatrist and author writes: Diagnostic Mislabeling: The tendency to blame the victim has strongly influenced the direction of psychological inquiry.
Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. – USA
It has led researchers and clinicians to seek an explanation for the perpetrator’s crimes in the character of the victim. In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to « brainwashing » have yielded few consistent results.
Linked to our presentation of Iranian Human Rights Working Group IHRWG on December 13, 2005. And to human rights panel of the CIRA conference on the same date.
Dr. Hossein Bagher Zadeh is a writer, journalist, and ex-refugee from Iran. He now lives in Ipswich. He is Chair of the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG).
Hossein Bagher Zadeh – Iran
His Text Human Rights are Universal – Period! of the presentation given at the human rights panel of the CIRA conference in Atlanta. First, let me say that I make no apology about the bold title of my talk. This is not a proposition or an opinion I am expressing.
Gerald Nagler; Chair of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human: « The Human Rights Movement and the Helsinki Process, » 4/30/02. He is born 1929 in Vienna, Austria. Hs parents came with him to Sweden when he was two years old. He has grown up in Stockholm.
Gerald Nagler – Sweden
On the occasion of observance of the fifth anniversary of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 11 February 2000, the president of the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Gerald Nagler was presented with a special award.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore. He is author of three books including the best sellers ‘Taliban’’ and most recently ‘’Jihad.’’ He has covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia for the past 25 years and writes for the ‘Far Eastern Economic Review,’ the ‘Daily Telegraph,’and ‘’The Wall Street Journal.
Ahmed Rashid
Interview on BBC World, August 4th, 2005 – A complex three way game between the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan is undermining the war on terror and hindering nation and democracy building, writes journalist Ahmed Rashid in his latest guest column for the BBC News website.
SOME of the most down-at-heel homes in the remotest villages of West Virginia sport posters for George Bush and Dick Cheney, although their occupants surely do not expect to gain from any further reductions in capital gains tax.
Serge Halimi – France
We see a lot of « We support our troops » signs. We meet a brother and sister in the state capital, Charleston, who will vote Republican for « religious reasons »; yet the brother is a schoolteacher and he has no health insurance.
Published in University of Toronto Quarterly – Volume 72 Number 3, Summer 2003 – Sabina Spielrein, 1885-1942: Ronald Hayman, A Life of Jung, New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2001. 522, illustrated. us $35.00 – Reviewed in University of Toronto Quarterly by Linda Munk. Until the publication of The Freud/Jung Letters in 1974, Sabina Spielrein had been forgotten, even in psychoanalytic circles.
Sabina Spielrein – Russia and Switzerland – 1885-1942
Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909: ‘Spielrein is the person I wrote you about. … She was, of course, systematically planning my seduction, which I considered inopportune. Now she is seeking revenge.’
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The Belgian Armand Mattelart, a professor at the University of Paris VIII, is one of the most biting critics of the global monopolies of the communications and cultural industries.
Armand Mattelart – Belgium
How do you see the evolution of public policies on communications around the world? Is governments held hostage by the mass media? The notion itself of « public policies » in the area of communications and culture, as the non-aligned countries demanded of UNESCO a New World Information and Communication Order, during the 1970s, underwent a long journey through the desert in the last decades of the past century.
His parents left Turkey in 1972 for work in France. His father learned him work and family as great values. He learned skills with electricity and – when eighteen – found a working place. As he had to do overwork without beeing paid, he started his own enterprise. Receiving no credit from banks, he asked the little community Cenon, near Bordeaux/France for a starting capital, he received 5’000.- Euros.
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Sorry, I can not find any photo of Mustafa Yildiz – Turkey & France.
Today 25 years old he has 4 employees (two from Turkey, one from Maroc, one French). He believes to rise this year the affair volume and employe 4 more persons.
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