Index January 2006

Jaribu Hill – USA

Linked to our presentation of HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY on January 30, 2006.

Linked also to our presentation of Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights on January 31, 2006.

And linked to our presentation of Economy and Human Rights – one on January 30, 2006.

Jaribu Hill – USA

She is the Executive Director and Founder of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights.

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George Alagiah – England-Africa-Sri Lanka

George Aligiah is a Journalist raising humanitarian issues. He was born in 1955 in Sri Lanka, but moved to Ghana when he was just 5 years old. Alagiah was there at a time when African Independence was just emerging and this has been at the core of his interests. This eventually led to George Alagiah’s career in television reporting and correspondence.

George Alagiah – England

He grew up in Ghana but he attended Durham University in England, where he obtained his degree in Politics. He started a career in print journalism with South Magazine where he worked as an African Correspondent in Zimbabwe for several years before being appointed the African Editor of the magazine. Seven years later in 1989, George Alagiah moved on to the BBC where he undertook the position of South African correspondent.

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Divina Frau-Meigs – France

Linked to our presentation of Taskforce on Education, Academia and Research on January 28, 2006.

Linked to our presentation of Education, academia and research on January 28, 2006.

Divina Frau-Meigs. She is an American Studies- and Media Sociology -teacher at the ParisIII-Sorbonne University.

Divina Frau-Meigs – France

She studied in Paris, Stanford and at the Communication School of Annenberg (University of Pennsylvania).

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Schafik Handal – El Salvador 1930 – 2006

Khaleej Times Online: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Schafik Handal, a communist guerrilla commander during El Salvador’s brutal 12-year civil war and a former presidential candidate, died of a heart attack on Tuesday at the age of 75.

Schafik Handal – El Salvador

Handal was a senior leader of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, rebel group that fought a series of US-backed right-wing governments throughout the 1980s in a war that claimed around 75,000 lives.

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Domitila Barrios de Chungara – Bolivien

She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: “I want to leave future generations the only valid inheritance: a free country and social justice.”

Domitila Barrios de Chungara – Bolivien

She works for the Mobile School Project

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Noelí Pocaterra – Venezuela

She is one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Linked to our presentation of Network of Wayuu Indigenous Women on January 26., 2006.

She says: “We women, as givers of life, are also responsible for taking care of that life and, for that reason, we need strong organizations of indigenous women.”

Noelí Pocaterra – Venezuela

She works for the Network of Wayuu Indigenous Women, and for the Permanent Commission for Indigenous People in the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

She is an indigenous woman, a Wayuu woman. She is militant, socially and politically, and has committed herself, for over 40 years, to the defense of the human, political and territorial rights of her country’s native people.

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Wahu Kaara – Kenya

Linked to our presentation of Moving politics … to the people on January 25, 2006.

Also linked to our presentation of THE KENYA DEBT RELIEF NETWORK on January 25, 2006.

She worked actively for preparing the World Social Forum WSF 2006 in Mali.

She is also one of the 1000 women proposed fort the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

Wahu Kaara – Kenya

She says: « African women are not dying for Africa anymore, they want to live for Africa. »

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Aminata Dramane Traore – Mali

Goes with ‘Assuming Authority‘.

Aminata Dramane Traoré (born 1942) is a Malian author, politician, and political activist. She served as the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mali from 1997 to 2000 and is a former coordinator of the United Nations Development Programme.

Aminata Dramane Traoré

She is the current Coordinator of ‘Forum pour l’autre Mali/ Forum for the other Mali’ and Associate Coordinator of the International Network for Cultural Diversity and was elected to the board of the International Press Service in July 2005.

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Eric Toussaint – Belgium

Linked with WSF 2006 – Third World Dept on January 21, 2006. Added February 7, 2008: and linked with Crise à la Banque mondiale et au FMI.

Eric Toussaint is the President of CADTM Belgium (Comité pour l’Annullation des Dettes du Tiers Monde / Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World’s Debt).

Eric Toussaint – Belgium

December 8, 2005 he writes, together with Millet Damien, President (CADTM France) on ‘Europe solidaires sans frontières’ (Europe solidarity without borders):

The World Bank’s bombast about good governance, corruption and reducing poverty is a farce. In reality, the World Bank is supporting an oil pipeline project that allows a notorious dictator to fill his pockets and thumb his nose at the world. Meanwhile, the people of Chad are bleeding themselves dry to repay a monumental debt without enjoying the fruits of a natural resource that is rightly theirs. We propose to take a closer look at a so-called neo-liberal model that has been forced on Chad by the international institutions for the benefit of the major powers and world finance.

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