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George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Borjas received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975. Prior to moving to Harvard in 1995, he was a Professor of Economics at the University of California at San Diego. (full text).

He says: ”Any ‘reform’ that gives amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants without taking care of the underlying illegal -immigration problem is a lemon. After all, what guarantees that the current batch of 12 million illegal immigrants will not be replaced by another 12 million in just a few years? What guarantees that guest workers will not stay illegally in the United States after their visa expires? What guarantees that border enforcement will be taken seriously by the Bush administration in the next two years or by the Democratic administration after that? » (full text, May 17, 2007).

Look at: The Borjas’ Blog, George Borjas’s thoughts on immigration, labor markets, and random stuff.

George J. Borjas – USA

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Listen to his Google video: George J. Borjas, Costs of Immigration, 54 min, 5 Jun 2006. Harvard economist George Borjas details the hidden costs of current American immigration policies.

His CV.

He writes: « It has been a year since Heaven’s Door was published. And it has been an interesting year, both in terms of the reactions to my book and in terms of how the debate over immigration policy has evolved ». (full text).

• Read: Immigrants In, Wages Down, April 25, 2006;
• Read: Increasing the Supply of Labor Through Immigration, Measuring the Impact on Native-born Workers, May 2004;
• Read: Food Insecurity and Public Assistance, 54 pages, May 2001;
• Read: Immigration, on ‘the concise encyclopedia of economics’.

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Ms. Donna Fernandes is a key figure in the Indian womens movement. She has worked on gender issues for over 20 years and is one of the founding members of Vimochana, THE most prominent womens organisation in Bangalore. Donna has covered issues ranging from violence against women, to problems of rural and urban women, to the girl child, female infanticide, trafficking, dowry deaths, domestic workers problems. She has travelled the length and breadth of India raising awareness on womens issues. She is also known in the international womens movement for her passionate and totally committed approach to fighting for womens rights. (full interview text).

She says: « If women are not emotionally independent, then they cannot be economically independent — and violence against women will continue ». (full text).

News headlines about the theme:
IT City plagued by dowry deaths, July 16, 2007.
Domestic Violence Act yet to be implemented, January 25, 2007.
India’s first domestic violence law takes effect, Oct 27, 2006.

Donna Fernandes – India

She works for Vimochana (named on India together).

Donna Fernandes of Vimochana, a women’s organization in Bangalore, addressed the students of IIJNM on Friday, October 31, 2003. Fernandes touched upon a wide range of women’s issues in India, including female infanticide, female feticide, sexual abuse and the evils of dowry. This is Fernandes’s second visit to IIJNM. During her first visit, Donna spoke about the feminist movement in India on Wednesday March 19, 2003. She noted how the patriarchal system in India continues to exploit women in the form of dowry and female infanticide. She said that the problem of such social evils cannot be eradicated only by a few NGOs, but both men and women in general should come forward to solve the problem. She also believed that there are plenty of loopholes in the existing legal framework and that many of the laws need to be updated and amended. Quoting the example of the Mathura rape case, she mentioned how a women’s organization was successful in securing justice to a victim of rape, who otherwise was accused of being characterless and therefore did not deserve justice. (full text).

Lire: Meurtres en série pour cause de dot.

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Madhu Kishwar is the founder and editor of « Manushi: a journal on women and society ». Kishwar is one of India’s foremost thinkers in the arena of women’s rights, social justice, collective responsibility and perspectives on social change. As an activist scholar, Kishwar advocates the politics of engagement. She has made prolific editorial contributions to Manushi since its inception in 1979, and her work has appeared in several anthologies. Her writing is appreciated worldwide for its incisiveness and thought-provoking, challenging quality, and she is an invigorating speaker. Kishwar is currently a senior fellow at the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies in New Delhi, India. (full text).

Read: Feminism in India has no integrity. You can’t trust it, (full long interview).

She says: « For many feminists, getting along with a mother-in-law, or even having a happy marriage is a sign of mental slavery! I was repelled by this insistence on joyless, confrontational living ».

Madhu Kishwar – India

She works for Vimochana (named on India together).

Destined to fail: The present day dowry system symbolizes the disinheritance of women and the resulting desperation of parents to push their daughters out of their homes after marrying them off. Madhu Purnima Kishwar points to inherent flaws in the anti-dowry legislation, and argues that equal inheritance is the way forward. (full text).

Books from Manushi.

Statements before Justice Nanavati Commission.

Mishra Commission Affidavits.

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• 2007-07-01: Alicia Amalia Rodríguez Illescas – Guatemala;
• 2007-07-02: Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella – Tanzania;
• 2007-07-03: Katsuko Nomura – Japan;
• 2007-07-04: Cissé Hadja Mariama Sow – Guinea;
• 2007-07-05: Zarema Omarova – Russian Federation;
• 2007-07-06: Asha-Rose Migiro – Tanzania;
• 2007-07-07: Nimalka Fernando – Sri Lanka;
• 2007-07-08: Thomas Stocker – Switzerland;
• 2007-07-09: Xiaoxia Zhu – China;
• 2007-07-09: Jiuhua Wu – China;
• 2007-07-09: Jianhua Wang – China;
• 2007-07-10: Richard Rodriguez – USA;
• 2007-07-11: Lester Brown – USA;
• 2007-07-12: Chalmers Johnson – USA;
• 2007-07-13: Toita Yunusova – Russian Federation;
• 2007-07-14: Stephen A. Marglin – USA;
• 2007-07-15: Itsmania Erohyna Pineda Platero – Honduras;
• 2007-07-16: Byubyusara Ryskulova – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-07-17: Bahia Hariri (Bahiyya Hariri) – Lebanon;
• 2007-07-18: Guangren Zhou – China;
• 2007-07-19: Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan;
• 2007-07-20: Daofu Chen – China;
• 2007-07-21: Marcel Barang – France & Thailand;
• 2007-07-22: Jonathon Espie Porritt – England;
• 2007-07-23: Latifabano Mohammad Yusuf Getali – India;
• 2007-07-24: Florentine Bodo Ramambasoa – Madagascar;
• 2007-07-25: Irene Chaluluka – Malawi;
• 2007-07-26: Sr. Paola Battagliola – Italy;
• 2007-07-27: Mary Brownell – Liberia;
• 2007-07-28: Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan;
• 2007-07-29: Ernest Callenbach – USA;
• 2007-07-30: Yue Chen – China;
• 2007-07-31: Jürgen Cain Külbel – Germany.

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He is a former criminal investigator of the GDR, who became a journalist after the reunification of Germany, Jürgen Cain Külbel is the author of a counter-investigation on the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, which the Voltaire Network presented to the Arab public during a widely covered conference in Damascus, May 7, 2006. In this interview, he discusses the political role of the UN Commission and the unexploited leads pointing to Israeli responsibility. (on his english homepage).

See his international homepage.

He says: « Syria is innocent and has nothing to do with that crime or the other assassinations » (of Rafik Hariri). (on souria.com).
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Jürgen Cain Külbel – Germany

… The thing about this book is; everything is documented and the writer expected this war six months before it happened. The murder of Hariri was the beginning of a large scale destabilization plan of all Lebanon, and it tracks, lead to the Lebanese civil war and ends in the Washington, New York and Jerusalem in recent days … (full text).

When going too far is never enough.

Anti-neocon Book Scuttled.

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Ernest Callenbach Visit: August 16, 2007, Carbondale Economic Localization, Colorado /USA.

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was drawn into the then ‘new wave’ of serious attention to film as an art form.

After six months in Paris at the Sorbonne, watching four films a day, he returned to Chicago and earned a Master’s degree in English and Communications … Recently, Callenbach has introduced the story of a real-world community movement in Japan that is reminiscent, in its aims and practices, of his Ecotopian society. He visited Japan and investigated the Yamagishi movement. It encompasses some three dozen intentional communities founded on the same underlying principles: living an ecologically based integration of people with agriculture (pig, cattle, and chicken livestock rasing, and organic-vegetable and fruit farming), and living a social life based on principles of democracy, mutual understanding, support, and health. Each individual settlement is referred to as jikkenji (‘demonstration community for the world’). (full text).

He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement.

Ernest Callenbach – USA

Read: A Citizen Legislature, Stretching our thinking about how we govern ourselves.

He says: « It is time to think of the Plains in new ways. As Native Americans are demonstrating by their reintroduction of bison on many reservations, bison can again become part of the natural Plains landscape–and, for Indian people, not only a source of self-sufficiency in food production but also a powerful spiritual and religious presence. For whites, bringing back the bison and their companion grazers on a large scale in Plains parks and on other public lands will provide us the opportunity to see what a sustainable ecosystem in the Plains is like. And growing numbers of bison on private ranch lands will help us learn what a permanently viable agricultural system could be. Moreover, because the Plains are also very windy, they could become producers of a significant amount of wind-generated electrical energy, making the region self-reliant in energy. (full text).

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Mr. Muhammad Anwar Dar is a renowned personality of Gujranwala. He chairs a progressive business organization, the Dollar East Group that has a diversified portfolio and operates in the areas of financial services, stock market, education and poultry medicines. He is a person strongly committed to the welfare of the people of his native region and has been strenuously working for their uplift, particularly the youth. He envisions emergence of Gujranwala and its environs as an affluent and progressive region contributing towards the progress of the country. (full text).

Read: First Convocation Ceremony (at GIFT University).

Muhammad Anwar Dar – Pakistan

He says (about GIFT University): ”We are promoting opportunities for learning and sharing best practices. We are deeply committed to our values of lifelong learning as a premier educational institution. These values and commitment are inherent in each and every alumnus, in our faculty, administration and staff. Our co-curricular activities and programmes enhance life long learning, foster personal growth and develop leadership qualities. We remain committed to excellent teaching that prepares students for the changing economic, social, and moral challenges of our society ».

President’s speech echoed at annual general assembly meeting of NGO group for CRC, Switzerland. (full text).

A revolution begins with a great idea. In the case of GIFT University, it was the vision of the Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Anwar Dar and his associates, who wanted to provide the country with gifted people instead of degree toting individuals. That is why he named this institute as GIFT University for all those who seek to become enlightened individuals rather than be a part of the spoon-fed educated population. (full text).

Read: Principal Officer US Consulate visits Roshni Homes.

Roshni Homes is a private charitable trust being run by a Board of Trustees. Roshni Homes is devoted towards housing and educating the orphaned-abandoned children of the community. Roshni Homes believes equal treatment and non-discriminatory practices and cares for children regardless of race or creed. We help children who are orphaned or abandoned, and we give these children an opportunity to build lasting relationships within a family. We provide care and education to enable these children to become active members of their community. (full text).

Sorry, no more english news found in the internet about Muhammad Anwar Dar, Pakistan.