Mois : janvier 2006

Alfred Sirleaf is punished for educating Liberians: In a country where newspapers are a luxury for the minority that can actually read, citizen of capital Monrovia Alfred Sirleaf came up with a novel way to bring the news to the locals. Every morning he would enter the wooden shack that he called the newsroom and started sketching the day’s top stories on a rotating blackboard.

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Sorry, I could not get any photo of Alfred Sirleaf.

Making do with limited tools such as a 70s dictionary donated by a diplomat, he would craft his front page and then turn it around to face pedestrians and drivers. He, who has no formal journalism training, says: “Poverty dominates this country but that doesn’t mean that people don’t want to know what’s going on”.

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Linked to our presentation of Special Rapporteur on Torture on January 10, 2006.

Manfred Nowak – Austria

Direct from the web of the International Commission of Jurists: Prof. Manfred Nowak was elected to the Commission in May 1995.

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Wien – Florian Klenk ist « Journalist des Jahres« . Der « Falter »-Journalist, der nun für zwei Jahre den Österreich-Teil der « Zeit » macht, hat 2005 « Meilensteine » gesetzt – « wieder einmal », wie die Jury feststellt. Zum zweiten Mal hat der « Österreichische Journalist » eine Jahresbilanz der journalistischen Arbeit in diesem Land gezogen. Chefredakteure wie Herbert Lackner, Karl Amon, Andreas Unterberger haben in der Jury mitgewirkt, auch renommierte Medienjournalisten, wie Bernhard Baumgartner und Harald Fidler. Und auch Armin Wolf, « Journalist des Jahres 2004 », war in der Jury.

Siehe auch seinen Artikel in Die Zeit Nr. 52 vom 21. Dezember 2005 zum UN Sonderberichterstatter über Folter, Manfred Nowak.

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Sorry, ich fand keine Photo von Florian Klenk.

Siehe auch unseren Beitrag auf unserem NGO-Blog vom 10. Januar 2006 über die UN-NGOs-Govs-working group in Genf vom 23.Febr. – 5. März 2006.

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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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