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Linked to our presentation of Hossein Bagher Zadeh – Iran on December 13, 2005. And to human rights panel of the CIRA conference on the same date.
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) is an Internet-based community of individuals committed to campaigning for the improvement of human rights in Iran:

History: The following text was provided to SCI Site by IHRWG in Nov 1999:

It all started with the news of a yet another stoning (to death) in Iran in March 1994.

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A joint event will happen, organized by FIDH, 3D and IATP in parallel to the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. Please see the programme hereafter: Human Rights and the WTO: examining the impacts, 14 December, 2005, 10 – 13.00, WTO Convention Center, Room A.

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Updated on May 21, 2011: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre iDMC.

We are pleased to announce that the Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council has changed its name to Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The name change is accompanied by a relaunch of the IDMC’s website and its online IDP database. Please go to the Homepage to visit the new website and the IDP database.

New name: We believe our new name better reflects the main focus of our work: monitoring situations of internal displacement, advocating for solutions to the plight of the world’s 25 million internally displaced people, and strengthening the capacity of actors on the ground to improve their responses to IDP crises. The Centre continues to be an integral part of the Norwegian Refugee Council and its mandate remains unchanged.

Improved website: The IDMC’s new website provides free and easy access to comprehensive and frequently updated information and analysis on all situations of conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. The new inter-active IDP map opens an additional gateway to the over 50 country pages currently featured on the IDMC’s website. Each country page serves as a portal to a host of IDP-related reports, news, maps and other resources. Several thematic resource pages are also available on the new website.

Re-register now: As part of the relaunch, we are updating our distribution lists. If you would like to continue to receive the bi-weekly IDP News Alert or e-mail notifications of new IDMC reports and profile updates, please re-register now on our subscription page.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council, Chemin de Balexert 7-9, CH-1219 Châtelaine (Geneva), Tel.: +41 (22) 799 07 03, Fax +41 (22) 799 07 01, mail here.

op-icescr is an abbreviation for the Optional Protocol for the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This is the UN official terminology making a debate since 1999 on rights other than just political and personal ones. People generally think that only the political and personal rights can be claimed by law, at least in countries that have signed the Chart of Human Rights.

Many observers think that economic, social and cultural rights should also be in the category of rights admissible by law. Among the countries strongly supporting this view to be admitted by the UN General Assembly are Brazil and Mexico.

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The New York Times Versus The Civil Society, Protests, tribunals, labor, and militarization and wars, by Edward S. Herman, Z Magazine Online, December 2005, Volume 18 Number 12 – The biases of the New York Times surface in one or another fashion on a daily basis, but while sometimes awfully crude, these manifestations of bias are often sufficiently subtle and self-assured, with facts galore thrown in, that it is easy to get fooled by them. Analyzing them is still a useful enterprise to keep us alert to the paper’s ideological premises and numerous crimes of omission, selectivity, gullible acceptance of convenient disinformation, and pursuit of a discernible political agenda in many spheres that it covers.

The veteran Times reporter John Hess has said that in all 24 years of his service at the paper he “never saw a foreign intervention that the Times did not support, never saw a fare increase or a rent increase or a utility rate increase that it did not endorse, never saw it take the side of labor in a strike or lockout, or advocate a raise for underpaid workers. And don’t let me get started on universal health care and Social Security. So why do people think the Times is liberal?” The paper is an establishment institution and serves establishment ends. As Times historian Harrison Salisbury said about former executive editor Max Frankel, “The last thing that would have entered his mind would be to hassle the American Establishment, of which he was so proud to be a part” … rest see this link.

Open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social an Cultural Rights (op-icescr), 6 February – 17 February 2006 in Geneva

DRAFT PROGRAMME OF WORK

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The IRFF news, from the International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF International) and (IRFF Europe), tells us on 28.11.05 – Notre Dame 2006 Annual Peace Conference: Call for Papers (Kroc Institute Student Peace Conference) – The University of Notre Dame’s annual Student Peace Conference will take place on March 31 and April 1, 2006. The conference is officially sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and is planned and directed entirely by undergraduate peace studies students of the University.

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Please find here an information on a publication from WHO on June 2005: A press release was issued and a press conference held to launch the WHO Resource Book on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation on Monday, 20 June.

The WHO Resource Book provides information on how international human rights standards are relevant to people with mental disorders. It discusses the obligations of countries to use legislation to promote, respect and fulfill the human rights of this uniquely vulnerable population. It also offers practical guidance on what should go into a mental health law and how good mental health law can promote access to care and prevent some of the stigmatization and discrimination that people with mental disorders face all too often. Finally, it provides strategies for developing and adopting mental health law as well as to ensure its effective implementation.

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SECOND PHASE OF WSIS, 16-18 NOVEMBER, TUNIS STATEMENT FROM RENATE BLOEM PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE OF NGOS (CONGO)

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Hereafter some links for more informations:

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Information Note to non-governmental organizations: The Secretariat of the Commission on Human Rights has the honour to inform non-governmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC that, at the initiative of the President of the 60th session of the General Assembly and the two Co-chairs,

1) Open-ended informal consultations on the establishment of a Human Rights Council will be held on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. in room XVII of the Palais des Nations.

2) A meeting with non-governmental organizations on “The 2005 World Summit Outcome: follow-up and implementation” will be held on Tuesday, 22 November 2005 from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. (room still to be confirmed).

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Roundtable Panel on PRO-POOR ICTS FOR EDUCATION, Innovation, research, monitoring and evaluation, Parallel Events of WSIS Tunis:

Thursday, 17 November 2005, 9:00 – 11:00AM, Salle/Room Nabeul

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You are invited to attend the parallel event mentioned below, supported by the education, academia and research taskforce. Divina FRAU-MEIGS, coordinator.

Lundi 14 novembre 2005:

OUVERTURE OFFICIELLE

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You and your colleagues are invited to attend a seminar on legal issues in the global information society, Thursday, 17 November, 10 a.m., Kram Exhibition Center, Room Gafsa. In response to several inquiries, we confirm that there is no fee, and there is no need to pre-register for the session.

Center for International Legal Studies, P.O. Box 19, A5033 Salzburg, Austria, Tel +43 662 835399, Fax +43 662 835171, US Fax 1 509 3560077.

MENTOR (INT’L ASSO. FOR MEDIA EDUCATION) IS ORGANIZING A PARALLEL EVENT IN TUNIS IN CO-ORDINATION WITH THE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TASKFORCE

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