Mois : septembre 2006

Linked with Thierry Falise – Belgium & Thailand, and with Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos & France.

Classified and annotated links to more than 11,000 full text documents on Burma/Myanmar.

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Reading Room (by source):  Bibliographies, universities, institutes, libraries, other research tools; Burma news (archived); Burma news (breaking); Burma news (current); Burmese Community sites; Burmese-language news sources; Conferences/seminars etc.; Discussion Groups; Electronic Newspapers; Films, videos, photographs and other images of Burma; General information, profiles, statistics; Major Burma portals; Major online locations of reports and articles on Burma; Maps (by date); Multilingual resources; Online sale of books, CDs, magazines etc.; Search engines.

Alphabetical list of subjects: Complete list of categories and sub-categories.

New: La dimension des droits de l’homme dans les relations internationales : le cas de la Birmanie / Myanmar (to be downloaded, 103 pages).
text-description in french.

reg.burma archive (1993-2001): This is the 220MB archive of the IGC online conference which was the main vehicle for online Burma communications for most of the ’90s. The archive, which is fully searchable from the reg.burma search, contains all the issues of the BurmaNet News from 1993-2001 and its predecessors, early numbers of « Burma Issues » and about 30,000 pages of other material, including some long documents. This is the conference that was searchable from the « Burmanet Gopher » which disappeared a couple of years ago. Now, thanks to IGC, ibiblio and OBL, it is back for searching (not for posting).

Burma Press Summary: Complete Text Archive (i.e. minus graphics)  of Hugh MacDougall’s abstracts of « The Working People’s Daily » and « The New Light of Myanmar » April 1987 to December 1996. Many full texts of speeches, laws etc. An important resource for Burma researchers. Warning: some big files.

Linked with Theodor Rathgeber – Germany.

See also wikipedia, and Promoting the Rights, Voices and Visions of Indigenous Peoples,

The Adivasi, the Tribal People of India is a popular believe that the four hundred or so adivasi communities of India, representing about 7% of the population, are some sort of primitive remnant of early Homo Sapiens. They persist in an archaic and primitive lifestyle. Many of them are hunters and gatherers or rudimentary agriculturists using slash and burn methods of cultivation. Many of them live in isolation in hills and forests and are isolated in their culture and religion, infact, they are not integrated into the surrounding Hindu or Muslim communities. In some areas they are the dominating group and therefore they do not live in isolation, in this cases they are settled agriculturists cultivating the land in a wide range of ways.

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Linked with Aida Touma-Suliman – Israel.

WAV’s Mission: We believe women should have full rights over their self and body and have the right for self-accomplishment and development. We condemn and reject all violence against women. We reject all laws that discriminate against women, and we seek to change social norms that treat women as “mere housewives” or “sexual objects.” WAV sees violence against women as a social problem practiced, legitimized and intensified by the traditions, norms and laws of society. The most extreme form of this is the murder of women which is justified by protecting the so-called “family honor.”

WAV’s Goals:

Exposing the problem of violence against women;
Establishing support services for women victims of violence;
Promoting the status of women within our community.

Projektvorstellung Women Against Violence (WAV) Nazareth, Israel.

III INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY  OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SOCIAL FORUM, PERVOLIA, CYPRUS, 26-28 MARCH 2004.

Contact: Women against Violence, P.O.Box 313, Nazareth 16000, Israel, Tel: +972. 4. 456 6059, Fax: +972. 4. 655 3781, e-mail.

The Diplomatic Club.

Linked with Vanida S. Thephsouvanh – Laos.

There exist a website in the original Laos language, having the french titel  ‘Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l’Homme‘.

English texts of the Lao Movement for Human Rights are mainly visible through other websites, mainly of western NGOs or Parties. The most engaged are the people of the italian radical party, with the link Press Review of the TRP – GLOBAL ARCHIVE – Latest articles,
or the pages concerning LAOS.

Other websites refer to the Lao Movement for Human Rights:

• fidh.org;
• usp.com;
• AsiaNews.it;
• waysandmenas.house.gov;
• democracycaucus.net;
• rghr.net;
• smhric.org;
• theepochetimes.com;
• phaseloop.com;
• factfinding.org;
• angelfire.com;
• quebec.indymedia.org;
• necf.org;
• uygur.org;
• lrwc.org.

and so on …

News, comments, analyses, in english and french. Homepage

Today’s Head:

Hell in Guantánamo Distresses Wall Street Lawyers, by Carole Vann – InfoSud: Barbara Olshansky, an Israeli-American lawyer, coordinates a network of 600 attorneys who are committed to defending the detainees in Guantánamo. She tells us about how these brilliant, Bush-voting New Yorkers are coming back from the Caribbean island with their beliefs shattered.

Asylum and Immigrants: Swiss Press Sees a Victory for the Rightwing, by Scott Capper – swissinfo: September 25, 2006 – Press commentators say Sunday’s ballots on tighter restrictions for asylum seekers and immigrants are a « personal victory » for the rightwing justice minister, Christoph Blocher.

Swiss set human rights priorities, by Frédéric Burnand – swissinfo : September 18, 2006 – The second session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opens on Monday in Geneva and will focus on special reports into the situation in Lebanon. Switzerland will continue to keep a particularly close eye on the main innovation of the Human Rights Council: regular human rights reviews of all 191 UN member states.

Read all these articles on their specific site of Human Rights Tribune … and many more concerning Columbia, Nepal, Sudan, Vietnam, Iraq …

Linked with Eric Stover – USA.

The Human Rights Center of the University of California, Berkeley has developed (since 1995) several research projects aimed at documenting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide throughout the world.

In 1999, the Human Rights Center helped publish a guidebook on international humanitarian law for journalists and aid workers. Edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff, Crimes of War: What the Public Must Know (W.W. Norton and Company, 1999) contains essays and photographs on specific armed conflicts and an A-Z directory of war crimes and crimes against humanity, as defined by the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other international treaties and charters. More than 100 journalists and legal experts contributed articles to the book. A spin off of the book has been the establishment of the Crimes of War Project. The project has created a website to assist journalists and aid workers in the field and to keep the public informed of the latest developments in international humanitarian law. For more information about the book and the Crimes of War Project;

Eric Stover and Gilles Peress have published two books based on their research for the Human Rights Center in the former Yugoslavia:

Eric Stover and Gilles Peress, The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (Zurich: Scalo, 1998);

Fred Abrahams, Gilles Peress, and Eric Stover, A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (Berkeley: University of California, 2001);

Molly Ryan and Eric Stover, « Breaking Bread with the Dead » (Tucson, AZ: The Society for Historical Archaeology, 2001);
Eric Stover, « Dreamtime of Vengence in Kosovo« , Crimes of War Project, Spring 2001.

Linked with Hedwig Vinyou – Cameroon.

ACAT(UK) was formed in 1984 by the then British Council of Churches, with the active support of Amnesty International. ACAT is affiliated to the Inteernational Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FiACAT) in Paris, and is a Body in Association with Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. ACAT’s aim is to work, as Christians, for the abolition of torture worldwide. We seek to increase awareness in the Churches and among christians of the widespread and evil use of torture and the need, for reasons of Christian faith, to campaign for its abolition.

FI.ACAT – the International Federation of ACAT: FI.ACAT – the International Federation of ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) – is one of the six members of CINAT, the recently formed Coalition of International NGOs Against Torture, which also includes Amnesty International, FIDH – IFHR (the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues), IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture victims), OMCT (World Organisation Against Torture) and APT (Association for the Prevention of Torture).

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Linked with Nils Daulaire – USA, with Nils Daulaire’s speech, with about available health care, with Nils Daulaire’s Keynote address, and with Importance of Global Alliances … .

The Global Health Council is the world’s largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. The Council works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed. Our diverse membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that work to ensure global health for all.

The Council works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.

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Linked with Millicent Obaso – Kenya., and with The African Women’s Initiative AWI.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. Founded in 1919, the International Federation comprises 185 member Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, a Secretariat in Geneva and more than 60 delegations strategically located to support activities around the world. There are more societies in formation. The Red Crescent is used in place of the Red Cross in many Islamic countries. The Federation’s mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. Vulnerable people are those who are at greatest risk from situations that threaten their survival, or their capacity to live with an acceptable level of social and economic security and human dignity. Often, these are victims of natural disasters, poverty brought about by socio-economic crises, refugees, and victims of health emergencies. (Read the big rest on WHO WE ARE). See also the photo gallery.

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Linked with Millicent Obaso – Kenya, and with The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

The Africa Women’s Initiative AWI is a joint effort by the American Red Cross and African Red Cross and Red Crescent societies to reduce the high rate of maternal and child mortality in Africa. AWI is a five-year, integrated, community-based health education and advocacy program with a gender component. Spanning from July 2001 – July 2006, the program aims to recruit and train a large number of volunteers who will educate women about health issues. Women are the primary caretakers of children, extended families, the sick and the elderly of their communities. Women spend many hours a day in search of clean water, firewood and food, while bearing the greatest burden of poverty, disease, water/food insecurity and conflict. Gender inequality exacerbates the vulnerability of women in all areas by reducing their decision-making power at the family and community level. For women to be effective in their contribution to development and child-rearing, it is important that the health and development problems affecting them be addressed.

Goal: To save the lives of women and children in Africa

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Linked with Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo.

RWA is a registred Charity. It is a London wide organisation and is the first of its kind in Britain. (See on the Homepage).

To Empower Refugee Women, we do this through:

• Providing advice and guidance on education, training, employment, health and social care.
• Disseminating quality information on issues which matter to them.
• Organising culturally sensitive customised training programmes.
• Influencing/Lobbying policy makers.
• Being committed to refugee women – being consistent and clear about our service provision, not diluting our principles of support to refugee women.
• Involving them in our activities at different levels.

To learn more, go to information, partnership, news, training, Contact, all on their web.

Linked with Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo.

CRC, NYANKUNDE-BUNIA (République Démocratique du Congo). Le CRC a été créé, en 1993, sur l’initiative de M. Ben Mussanzi wa Mussangu, qui était à l’époque radiologue au Centre Médical Evangélique de Nyankunde-Bunia.

La région des pays des grands lacs d’Afrique centrale était en train de souffrir de toutes sortes de conflits au niveau local, national et régional.

Le 1er août 1997, le CRC Nyankunde est devenu une véritable organisation à rayonnement national et international.

Au CRC nous avons une vision d’un monde d’amour ( amour de Dieu et du prochain ), de tolérance , de respect mutuel, de culture de paix et de non-violence, les préjugés etant réduits au sein des communautés voisines unies par le sort (Dieu) pour vivre ensemble malgré leurs divergences de vue.

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Linked with Kongosi Onia Mussanzi – Dem. Republic of the Congo.

Le CME fut crée en 1966, de 1’effort de cinq communautés évangéliques et de leurs partenaires en mission: AIM, UFM (maintenant Cross World), WEC, CBMI et CMML. La Communauté des Assemblées de Dieu est devenue le sixième partenaire en 1990. Donc les 7 communautés de l’Eglise du Christ au Congo qui dirigent le CME sont ; Communauté Emmanuel (CE 39), Communauté Evangélique au Centre de l’Afrique (CECA 20), Communauté Baptiste du Congo Nord (CBNC 14), Communauté des « Assemblies of God » (AOG 12), Communauté Nation du Christ en Afrique (CNCA 21), Communauté des Eglises Baptistes du Congo Est (CEBCE 55), Communauté Evangélique de Christ au Cœur de l’Afrique (CECCA 16)
Sur la carte de l’Afrique, à mi-chemin entre le nord et le sud, 1’est et l’ouest vous trouverez Nyankunde. Le paysage de la savane est limité à I’horizon par les Monts Bleus, et à 70 km vers l’ouest par l’immense forêt de l’Ituri. La population de la région s’adonne aux cultures vivrières (manioc, haricot, mais), et à 1’é1evage du gros bétail. L’ancien marché du café s’est effondré. Certains jeunes cherchent de l’or dans les rivières. L’économie de la région stagne en raison des difficultés politiques locales et nationaux.

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Updated 2010-04-25: Project Syndicate – a world of ideas.

Project Syndicate is an international association of 287 newspapers in 115 countries, devoted to the following objectives:

bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere;
strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries;
upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.

Available Languages: english, spanish, french, russian, german, czech, chinese, arabian.  Continuer la lecture de « Project Syndicate »

Linked with Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – Brazil, with International Fellowship of Reconciliation ifor, with Deepening the Work; and with Hildegard Goss-Mayr – Austria.

The organization Servicio Paz y Justicia (The Peace and Justice Service) is human right organization. The Peace and Justice Service (SERPAJ) was founded in 1974 by 1980 Peace Nobel Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel. SERPAJ is very interested in the work of the Truth and human rights in South America and in the world. SERPAJ want to emphasize the importance of truth and justice in the process of democracy building.

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