Mois : novembre 2005

Index November 2005

Katarina Tomaševski – Croatia

Education is still not globally recognized as a right, despite endless solemn affirmations of the universality of human rights, according to a new report Education Denied: Costs and Remedies, written by Katarina Tomasevski, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

Katarina Tomaševski – Croatia

Education Denied: Costs and Remedies, published on 8 April 2003, is written by Katarina Tomasevski, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

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Anita Chaaban & Doris Vetsch – Switzerland

In February 2004 the Swiss people voted an initiative for lifelong imprisonment for sentencing of dangerous recidivist criminals. The people’s initiative was launched by a group of crime victims and families of victims. They collected over 194,000 signatures, almost double the number required to submit an initiative.

Anita Chaaban & Doris Vetsch – Switzerland

Those behind the initiative, like Anita Chaaban and Doris Vetsch, which had the backing of the rightwing People’s Party, wanted offenders found guilty of sexual and violent crimes to be handed lifelong sentences if they failed a one-off psychological assessment at the time of conviction.

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Jean Ziegler – Switzerland

Updated September 7, 2010 with the following links: with the websites Right to Food and Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights ADH, with Training on ESC Rights, with Global cereal supply and demand update. Also with en.wikipedia /last modified on 6 September 2010.

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Jean Ziegler – Switzerland

Jean Ziegler (born April 19, 1934) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Swiss federal parliament from 1981 to 1999, now he is one of the biggest protagonists of the alter-globalization movement.   Continuer la lecture de « Jean Ziegler – Switzerland »

Bader Zaman – Pakistan

Found in AfterDowningStreet.org: Written by the french journalist Sara Daniel, Le Nouvel Observateur, Translation by French language correspondent Leslie Thatcher, An Innocent Man in the Hell of Guantánamo – He’s forgotten nothing of the pain, the humiliation, the solitude. American investigators took a year to clear him. And another year to free him. Beyond the revolting injustice to which he was victim, former journalist Bader Zaman denounces the arbitrariness of American detention centers.

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He suffers from hypermnesia. It’s twelve months since Bader Zaman was released from Guantánamo prison, but he remembers every detail of his detention.

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Keiko Sugi – Japan

General Direktor Keiko Sugi, a 64 years young energic little woman, is responsible of an astonishing experience she created with the social establishment Kotoen in Edogawa, in the suburb of Tokyo. A hundreds of youngest kids share their daily life with some 60 old residents in this establishment.

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Every category of age has a waiting list with more than 100 persons wanting to joint this experience. Question: how long will it take that this experience is imitated? Here a description by Jacqueline Dix, reported in December 2004 on her first-hand experiences of intergenerational work in Japan.

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Stéphane Koch – Switzerland

Stéphane Koch carries out advice and training missions in economic intelligence, strategic scanning, information confidentiality and informational risk. Holder of a degree in Telecommunication and Public Relations, he is also a Executive Master in Economic Crime Investigations .

Stéphane Koch – Switzerland

Stéphane Koch also intervenes in cases related to reputation management, informational assets protection of companies, business marks protection on the Internet, and in other problematic cases related with cybercriminality.

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Shigeru Ban – Japan

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is one of the most innovative architects working today. His consistent design philosophy is to create uniquely free and open space with concrete rationality of structure and construction method.

Shigeru Ban – Japan

It seeks to challenge the existing construction method by using easily obtainable off-the-shelf materials in innovative and unprecedented structural/construction systems. To achieve this goal, SBA dares to go through an empirical trial (-and error) process to consistently incorporate newly discovered technology throughout the design process into its design.

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Tatiana Shaumian – Russia

Dr Tatiana Shaumian, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Moscow, publishes in The Pioneer on 23-11-2005 the following article: Azerbaijan under scanner, by Tatiana Shaumian – Has the wave of ‘orange revolutions’ abated?

The answer of some experts appears to be ‘yes’, following a fizzled attempt by Azerbaijan’s fractured opposition to challenge the results of a fraudulent election in the streets of Baku last week: There seems little doubt that Azerbaijan’s November 6 parliamentary polls were heavily rigged. Over 600 foreign observers, most of them professionals sent from Europe, found massive official manipulation of the process – before, during and after the voting. The New Azerbaijan Party, which supports President Ilham Aliyev, duly declared victory, claiming for themselves and their allies the vast majority of parliamentary seats. Aliyev himself, playing the role of ‘wise leader’, went on TV to admit a few ‘technical violations’ but insisted the elections were valid.

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Sorry, I can not find any photo of Tatiana Shaumian, Russia (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

All this has happened before. In Georgia two years ago, in Ukraine one year ago, and in Kyrgyzstan last Spring. In each of those upheavals, the opposition refused to accept defeat and took to the streets. After a few weeks of demonstrations, the governments of those three countries fell, leading to new elections that were massively won by opposition forces.   Continuer la lecture de « Tatiana Shaumian – Russia »

Firdous Tabasum – Kashmir

Linked with India and Central Asia: Vanishing distances.

Towards strategic partnership, by Dr.Tabasum Firdous – The biggest irritant in regional peace and stability in South Asia has been the question of final disposal of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. As a bone of contention between India and Pakistan, the issue has immensely strained relations between the two countries.

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Sorry, I can not find any photo of Firdous Tabasum, Kashmir (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

Three wars have been fought and the proxy war is still going on. Therefore the question of regional peace strategy has to focus on this issue. India’s complaint is that the US has not come out with outright endorsement of her position on Kashmir.

At the same time, the US could not be too forthright on Pakistan’s claim. Washington has been trying to equate the two powerful South Asian countries in the scale of its policy planning in the region.

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