Mois : novembre 2005

Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, he took his doctorate.

Wole Soyinka – Nigeria, Arts and political activism in Nigeria and worldwide

During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time, he taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan, Lagos, and Ife, where, since 1975, he has been professor of comparative literature.

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Post Scriptum October 10, 2006: Iranian Journalist Akbar Ganji will receive the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, by the Martin Ennals Foundation, on Wednesday October 11, 2006, together with Arnold Tsunga from Zimbabwe. They will receive the award from Mrs. Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Ceremony will take place at the ‘Batiment des Forces Motrices’ in Geneva/Switzerland, within the International North South Media Festival. A reception will follow immediately after the ceremony from 18.30-20.30h.

This site has been linked later (April 02, 2006) with the text IRANIAN PERSONALITIES ON THE ATOMIC CRISIS.

Post Scriptum March 18, 2006: Iranian Journalist Akbar Ganji Released! Human Rights First welcomes the release on March 18 of jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji. Mr. Ganji served a six-year prison sentence in reprisal for publishing numerous articles and a book that implicate government officials in the murder of Iranian intellectuals and writers in the 1990s.

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Akbar Ganji’s long-time hunger strike has nearly cost the Iranian dissident his life. He was sentenced in January 2001 to ten years imprisonment for his investigative articles and speeches, announced his hunger strike on 20 May with the words: “No one should be imprisoned – not even for a second – for expressing an opinion”.

Akbar Ganji – Iran

He and other Iranian dissident intellectuals are fighting for free speech against an extreme religious ideology based on violence, dictatorship, fanaticism and terrorism.

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Ellen R. Reese had a BA in Sociology 1991, Reed College; MA Sociology 1993, University of California, Los Angeles; PhD Sociology 1998, University of California, Los Angeles; Today Ellen Reese is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

Ellen R. Reese – USA

Awards: Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies, 1997; Jean Stone Dissertation Fellowship Award, sponsored by UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women.

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Kritaya Archavanitkul, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, demographer with the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR) at Mahidol University in Thailand.

Kritaya Archavanitkul

The Institute, with more than 20 years of reseach experience, has completed 75 research projects. Since its first project, the « Attitude Behavioral Survey of the Family Planning Program in an Urban Community » conducted in Bangkhen in 1968, the Institute has continuously conducted research and project evaluation at both local and national levels.

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Goes with ‘Assuming Authority‘.

Alice Karekezi, Lead Researcher and Project Coordinator, Justice, Human Rights and Governance Programme, Center for Conflict Management, National University of Rwanda, Butare, Rwanda. Research Project: Building on Community Strengths: Rethinking the Implementation of Gacaca Jurisdictions.

Alice Karekezi – Rwanda

Alice Karekezi, who has worked directly with witnesses at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

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Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.

Paul Farmer

Dr. Farmer’s work draws primarily on active clinical practice (he is an attending physician in infectious diseases and chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and medical director of a charity hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti) and focuses on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor.

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Dr.Firouzeh Nahavandi is a sociologist professor in ULB in Brussels. She is lecturing about Iran Central Asia and….Recently she has become director of institute of Sociology. She says that there is no real democratic opposition in Iran or outside Iran.

Firouzeh Nahavandi – Iran and Paris

She believes iranian are very romantic when it comes to politics. « When Khatami became president, people fell into romantism again. They thought Khatami will change everything but nothing happened ». When I asked her can federalism work in Iran? She answered without democracy NO.

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Dr. Jared Diamond, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA School of Health, and Professor of Geography, UCLA. Diamond’s formal training is in physiology and membrane biophysics. He has also pursued a parallel career in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Jared Diamond – USA

A recent outgrowth of Diamond’s evolutionary studies has been in the area of human history. In 1988, his book Guns, Germs, and Steel won both the Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction and Britain’s Science Book Prize. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1999.

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Corinne Gobin is director of the Group of research on the international actors and their speeches (GRAID), Free University of Bruxelles. She conducts research projects like ‘Reforms of the retirements and right of the workers’, and ‘Resources of the Workers, Employment and Social Rights in Europe’ (RESORE), or policies of education of the European Commission: analyze lexicon and statistics on education.

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Sorry, I could not find any photo of Corinne Gobin.

Comparison with other international organizations’, and also ‘the social movement of the anti- alter-mondialisation in French-speaking Belgium. Analyze of the actors and their social-political representations’.

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Steven Clift writes in his last newsletter: « Try to imagine a government interested in encouraging local online citizen activism … … over the years, I’ve scanned the e-advocacy scene.

Steven Clift

To be honest NIMBY (« not in my backyard ») campaigns led by a particularly upset citizens dominate the local scene with virtual pitch forks.

What if you democratize e-activism by making easy to use online tools more accessible to a diverse range of community campaigns? I am keeping my on projects like the BBC’s Action Network and the open source CivicSpace platform in the U.S. along with this new UK project … … look further on DoWire.org.

Steven Clift’s normal work has to do with democracy online. See also his actual 10 blog favorites. See also e-democracy political news. Interesting also Steven Clift’s link to a solar-powered Wi-Fi Network.

More links:

transmediale.01;

OMIDYAR;

CIO;

Development Gateway;

Buzz Webster;

Global Learning Group, WSIS.