Mois : janvier 2006

Added December 13, 2008: linked with Kenneth Roth – USA, with After Guantánamo; with Cop violence up due to the culture of impunity, and with The price of rights.

One of the important NGOs of these times has proven his value by publishing last November the report about CIA camps of torture in East-Europe. As often, the big medias had not jumped on the news, as it came ‘only’ from an NGO.

Now these days in January, our german speaking Swiss journal for dead dogs, the Sonntagsblick, published a paper out of the Intelligence group world (a fax from Egypt to the British office), unfortunately not cripted, and other Intelligend Groups like the Swiss capted it.

No official statement, declaration, reaction or information. Now our dead dog press had his day, as the same news out of a governmental leack is much more worth than given by the NGO world. Now the European big medias are jumping high.

In any way: thanks to Human Rights Watch. See their recent pages about Tortures and Abuses.

See also our different January pages of our World Peoples Blog, and our blog Humanitarian Texts.

« Much more could have been achieved ». Read the statement of the Civil Society World after the World Symposium of the Information Society WSIS, published by CONGO.

Linked to our presentation of Mutabar Tadjibayeva – Uzbekistan on January 15, 2006.

The Website of the Committee for Freedom of Speech and Expression, Uzbekistan is actually unavailable.

Derechos.org, a NGO defending Human Rights, writes about the Freedom of Speak and Expression: this is one of the most fundamental rights that individuals enjoy. It is fundamental to the existence of democracy and the respect of human dignity. It is also one of the most dangerous rights, because freedom of expression means the freedom to express one’s discontent with the status quo and the desire to change it. As such, it is one of the most threatened rights, with governments – and even human rights groups – all over the world constantly trying to curtail it’. … This page is just being born, but in the future we hope to provide you with thorough information about what freedom of speech means, why it is important to protect it and what are the attempts to curtail it. Meanwhile we hope you find the information we do offer useful … (Read here more of this article).

links:

blogrunner;

reporters without borders;

Linked to our presentation of Manfred Nowak on January 10, 2006:

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

It is again time for action: Found on choike.org (a best source for human rights informations), this anouncement – from Monday 6 to Friday 17 February 2006, governments and civil society representatives are meeting in Geneva to discuss future work on the development of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).The meeting of this « Open-Ended Working Group » will report back to the Commission on Human Rights in its upcoming session (15 March to 23 April 2004), with recommendations for future actions on the development of the Optional Protocol, an individual complaint procedure to the ICESCR.

The meeting is a pivotal point in the campaign for the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR in determining whether governments move forward towards drafting – and ultimately adopting – the Optional Protocol. Four of the six international human rights treaties currently have Optional Protocols. An Optional Protocol to the ICESCR, similar to the one that has been in place for 25 years under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), is important for ensuring that full recognition is accorded to economic, social and cultural rights.

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Linked to our presentation of Zazi Sadou – Algeria on January 5, 2006. And also linked to our presentation of Shadow Report on Algeria on the same date.

About us: WLUML, Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

For more than two decades WLUML has linked individual women and organisations. It now extends to more than 70 countries ranging from South Africa to Uzbekistan, Senegal to Indonesia and Brazil to France.

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