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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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.

Continuer la lecture de « Adivasi – the tribal people of India »

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 …