Mois : octobre 2006

Linked with NGO Forum on Cambodia, with The Khmer Rouge next at Trial, with DCA DanChurchAid Cambodia – the right to food, and with Boua Chanthou – Cambodia.

She received in 2000 the Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life, see on WWSF, the Laureates of the Women’s World Summit Foundation, Switzerland, see also their Homepage.

Thong Thavrin works with Aphiwar Srei, in Battambang, which provides psycholgical and social support through home visits, and of which she is the Director.
Phone: 012-694-390, e-mail. See Independent Journalism Foundation IJF.

Aphiwar Srei is supported by KHANA and the Frontiers Prevention Project.

She participated in the following events:

• of the NGOforum.org; (see their Homepage in english, and in Homepage in local language;
• as Participant of the Consultation Workshop on ADB-NGO-Government Cooperation, Cambodia;
• A study of two villages in Poipet Commune: Analizing Development Issues ADI (Homepage), Trainee and Team Researchers (Participants).

More informations and a photo may follow.

Added on June 17, 2007: sorry my request for a photo at the WWSF has given no result (see also my comment ‘Brave women without photos‘).

Linked with Strategies and Preparedness for Trade and Globalisation in India, with Rethinking Financial Dependency, and with La décennie perdue et la finance «vicieuse». with Creation of a Global Trade Facility, and with Oxfam, the IMF and the World Bank.

He writes: ”The breakdown of certain capital inflows classified according to their specification (bonds, credits) is useful for analysing the modification of some external constraints and the margin of manoeuvre of governments » (see on UNCTAD India.org, page 38).

Pierre Salama – France

New Causes of Poverty in Latin America. Pierrre Salama: The price rises in Latin America in the 1980s, often in fact hyperinflation, had an inversely proportional effec on incomes. But control over inflation has often in the long run caused a drop in the incomes of the middle and poorer classe. Formerly, poverty spread as inflation accelerated, but now it increases with the growth in unemployment, characterised in particular by the development of the informal economy. In the transition from a relatively closed economy to an open system, the region is seeing a shift in the poverty problem. The means of production era being destroyed rather than restructured.

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He is the first Sri Lankan who became this past May the prestigious Camera d’Or award for Best First Film at the world reknowned Cannes Film Festival for his Sinhalese language film Sulanga Enu Pinisa /The Forsaken Land. He previously directed a documentary called The Land of Silence in 2001 and a short film, Empty for Love, in 2002.

He says: « If The Forsaken Land has something to do with my country’s history, it is especially through its conveyance of the suspended state of being simultaneously without war and without peace – in between the two. I wanted to capture this strange atmosphere… For me, filmmaking is an ideal vehicle for expressing the mental stress people experience as a result of the emptiness and indecisiveness they feel in their lives. With the film, I wanted to examine emotional isolation in a world where war, peace and God have become abstract notions. » (Read more on Festival de Cannes).

Vimukthi Jayasundara – Sri Lanka

Born in Ratnapura, southern Sri Lanka, Jayasundara worked in the advertising industry and wrote film reviews before studying at the Film and Television Institute of India from 1998 to 2001. Returning to Sri Lanka, he joined the Government Film Unit and made The Land of Silence, a black-and-white documentary about the victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war. In 2001, he received a grant to continue his film studies in France at Le Fresnoy, where renowned Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang – who served as a guest lecturer to the faculty – left a lasting impression. Working with Tsai, Jayasundara made Empty for Love (2002), a short film that was selected for Cinéfondation, the student category at Cannes. Sulanga Enu Pinisa became a reality with grants from Fonds Sud and Prince Claus.
The beautifully shot film takes place in Sri Lanka in an indefinite setting, where politics, war, love and sex exist in a suspended state of being. Painfully evocative, Sulanga Enu Pinisa attempts to capture the emptiness experienced by the victims of a prolonged civil conflict, using a highly experimental visual style. Zhuang Wubin talks to Vimukthi Jayasundara in New Delhi during the 7th Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival, the pre-eminent festival in the world for Asian cinema, where Sulanga Enu Pinisa made its Asian premiere.(Read much more on contemporary magazine.com).

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Linked with Self Employed Women’s Association SEWA.

She is one of the Laureates awarded in 2006 with the Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life given annually by the Women’s World Summit Foundation WWSF.

She says: ”Water is life! ».

Gauriben RaysinghbHai KOLI – India

She works together with the Self Employed Women’s Association SEWA.

Water is growingly scarce in many parts of the world today, and that is certainly the case in the village of Bharada, Gujarat State. The State Water Supply and Sewerage Board invited SEWA to undertake the work of pipeline repairing in the area – formerly strictly a man’s job. « We will die of thirst if you undertake this job » the men told the women.

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Linked with ‘some Nativ American’s websites‘, and with Chief Arvol Looking Horse – Sioux Nation USA.

She says: « We must recognize that there was a North American holocaust of native people. We ask ourselves, where do we go now? We must build bridges, bridges to cover the gaps among all nations ».

She says also: « We pray for the safety of our teenagers who kill themselves six times more often than those of other cultural groups. Sixty-five percent of our sons will go to jail before they turn 20 years of age. We know that there is up to a 90 percent chance that our children, if they survive at all, will not succeed in the white man’s school system. »

And she says: « When we discuss conflict resolution, we must keep in mind that it is the women and children who have been impacted most profoundly by the destruction of our Indigenous ways. The best way to understand the concerns of Indigenous women is to let us speak for ourselves. »

And: « We must recognize that there was a North-American holocaust of Native people. We ask ourselves, ‘Where do we go now?’ We must build bridges, bridges to cover the gaps among all nations. »

Doreen Spence – Canada

She works for the Canadian Indigenous Women’s Resource Institute CIWRI, the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School Society, and the Alberta Civil Liberties Association. See also National Centre of First Nations Governance NCFNG.

Doreen Spence has dedicated the majority of her life to volunteering in native and nonnative communities with a consistent emphasis on aboriginal issues and concerns. Her work in the field of human rights and the protection of fundamental freedoms for her people is unsurpassed.

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Anabell Guerrero has worked exclusively with photography since 1986. In 1998 she worked on images of the Indians of Arawab (Wayus) orgins who live on a semi-desert peninsula between Venezuela and Colombia. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, she has lived and worked since 1986 between France and Venezuela. (See her website).

Anabell Guerrero – Venezuela & France

Her website in french.

Voir aussi ExpoRevue en français:

See some of her photos on:

• Seraphin Gallery;
• ExpoRevue, and click on ‘suivante’;
• analitica.com;
• ADF-photo.org and click on enter.

Densely complex implications in the photographic work of Anabell Guerreo defy generalizations and reductive interpretations.

La Guajira, a world on the borderline:

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Linked with Iraq, The United States, & the End of the European Coalition, with The death of deterrence, and with The Decline of the American Empire.

Gabriel Kolko is a historian, a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. He is the author of ‘Anatomy of a war: Vietnam, the United States, and the modern historical experience’, the classic ‘Century of war: Politics, conflicts and society since 1914’ (1995) and Another century of war? (2002). He spent 30 years working in Vietnam. (See NTHposition).

He says: « The world is increasingly multipolar, and the US’ desire to maintain absolute military superiority over the world is a chimera. »

Sorry, I can not get any photo of Gabriel Kolko – USA, but a picture of his book ‘the Age of War’.

Kolko received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1962. While there he was a member of the Student League for Industrial Democracy with Jesse Lemsich. Following graduation he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at SUNY-Buffalo. He joined the York University History Department in 1970 and is now an emeritus professor of history there. Kolko’s research interests include American political history, the Progressive Era, and foreign policy in the twentieth century.

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Linked with Islamic Feminism in the Islamic Republic, and with IRANIAN PERSONALITIES ON THE ATOMIC CRISIS.

She says: « Obviously, the apparent and quantitative equality is not the only goal of socio-cultural advancement of women. After the Islamic revolution in Iran, the attempt to obtain quantitative equality of women with men in educational centers, offices and factories, in and of itself, is no longer the criterion of progress. »

She says in german: « Insgesamt kann ich die Entstehung dieses bedrohlichen Klimas verstehen, obwohl ich mich als Muslimin weigere, den Islam mit Terror gleichzusetzen. Natürlich sind nicht alle Muslime Terroristen, doch umgekehrt sind leider immer mehr Terroristen Muslime. Deswegen noch einmal: Man darf ihnen gegenüber nicht einknicken ».

Und: « Neben allem Religiösem und Politischem sind Iraner wunderbare Menschen, für die es sich lohnt, die öffentliche Meinung zu formen. »

Katajun Amirpur – Germany & Iran

She studied Islamic Studies in Bonn and Teheran, and holds a doctorate from Bamberg University on a contemporary Islamic theorist. Katajun Amirpur teaches at the Universities of Berlin, Bamberg and Bonn, and is both author and journalist – particularly for the German public radio stations, DLF and WDR. She is currently carrying out post-doctoral studies on Shiite Koran exegesis, funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Insitute).

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