Mois : mai 2006

Irene Rodriguez – Switzerland and Argentinia

Linked with our presentation of FIZ – Women’s Information Center.

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

She says: « Solidarity is the heart of people. In the name of life, we need respect. »

Irene Rodriguez – Switzerland and Argentinia

She works for Minka alter Latina, and for Infoladen Kasama , and also for Women’s Information Center (FIZ),

Irene Rodriguez was born into a large poor family in Argentina. Her life was filled with rape, brute force, pain, and misery. With only three years of school, Irene soon became a victim of prostitution and slave trade. With unbelievable toughness she managed to survive, to actually free herself, and legalize her existence in Switzerland. She is now a source of power for those who are in the hands of prostitution and slave trade, a tireless fighter for those who are willing to get out. Irene Rodriguez fights for the basic rights of illegal migrants, a voice for those who have none.

Once upon a time there was a little girl in Missiones in Argentina. Her family was big and poor and violence was the daily bread. Not knowing anything else Irene thought that this is life as it is. She never stands up against her mother who permits the male members and friends of the family to rape the young body and soul. The child is only nine or ten when her mother finally comes to the conclusion that something is wrong about how her little girl is being treated.

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Snjezana Mulic–Busatlija – Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

She says: « The biggest barricades are in people’s heads. »

Snjezana Mulic – Busatlija – Bosnia and Herzegovina

She works for the ‘Dani Magazine’, Sarajevo, and for the ‘Women’s Association Bosancic’.

For the past 12 years, Snjezana Mulic-Busatlija has been working to promote and protect human rights, exposing herself to innumerable risks in a militarized environment and a society driven by nationalism and ethnic division. Through her work as a journalist, she has drawn public attention at national and international levels to the conditions of people during and after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has never renounced the highest journalistic principles or given in to numerous forms of pressure. Her courage demonstrated that it is possible to implement the Dayton Peace Agreement.

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Aïda Chouk – France

She is a judge to the Bobigny’s court. She is also the Présidente of the magistrature’s union. She has succeeded Evelyne Sire-Marin in 2004. The magistrature’s union is placed on the left on the french political arena. Like this, the work’s axis of the Presidente are, notably, the independance of the public prosecutor’s office facing political power and the community justice. She is opposed to the increase in immediate appearance and to the emergency justice. (Read the rest on Ideas diary).

Aïda Chouk – France

Excerpt: France – Wiesenthal Center officials met with the heads of the French Magistrates Union … The President of the Magistrates Union, Judge Aida Chouk, felt that, « though, since 2001, the law had been reinforced, the volume of juvenile delinquency and recidivism had overloaded the judicial system. Moreover, as prison sentences were repressive and counter-productive, the tendency was to impose a research assignment on antisemitism. [Because] most offenders are uneducated minors from Paris slum peripheries, such [prison] penalties are not the answer, » he asserted. Chouk felt that a global approach was needed to train judges, police and teachers as partners to the solution. The Wiesenthal Center will continue to urge that tougher sentencing become a part of that approach.
(Red the rest on the Blog of Simon Wiesenthal Center).

Read this text in english, translated from french (by Patrick Bolland ), about ‘The Suburbs: In the Wake of the Uprising’ (Cyrille Poy: Banlieue, lendemains de révolte), to get a picture of the situation.

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