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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.