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2 - Yemen : Woman at risk of stoning +++ A Yemeni woman, Layla Radman 'A'esh, is at risk of execution by
stoning and Naji Hizam 'Abdullah is at risk of flogging after they were
convicted of adultery by the Court of First Instance in Aden. Naji Hizam
'Abdullah has been sentenced to 100 lashes. Layla Radman 'A'esh and Naji
Hizam 'Abdullah had appealed against the ruling, however on 22 September
2001, the Appeal Court in Aden upheld their sentences. Layla Radman
'A'esh's case is now pending before the Supreme Court for a final appeal.
3 - Royaume-uni : Une femme violée par des soldats va être expulsée ! UNE FEMME VIOLÉE PAR DES SOLDATS
EST CONFRONTÉE À L’EXPULSION PARCE QUE SA PLAINTE EST JUGÉE NON COMME
UNE ACTE DE TORTURE, MAIS COMME UN ACTE DE « GRATIFICATION
SEXUELLE » ET « DE LA SIMPLE PASSION » de la part des
soldats . l’appel contre l’expulsionlancé par
l’organisation Women Against Rape (RU) pour soutenir une femme demandeuse
d’asile dont la requête a été rejetée sous prétexte que les soldats
responsables de cette exaction n’ont fait que procéder à « un
acte très grave de gratification sexuelle ». Qualifiant le comportement
des soldats comme « étranger aux activités politiques ou militaires
des soldats », le ministère de l’Intérieur a rejeté la plainte
de la femme qui demandait asile au Royaume-Uni. Pour exprimer votre inquiétude ou agir contre l’expulsion, contactez Sian Evans ou Anne Neale, courriel : war@womenagainstrape.net LES BRÈVES DU LEF N° 01- Janvier 2003 From: "B.R. Gengou" <r.gengou@womenlobby.org> ***
4 - Pakistan : A teenage girl stoned to death for dancing Shumshad
Kehr was an innocent teenager from Sindh, who was stoned to death on
December 9 by her paternal uncle Manzoor Chandio and a mob of frenzied
villagers in front of her parents in the name of the macabre rite, "honour
killing". She was at the wedding party of her cousin. She started
dancing. Her dance was an unpardonable offence of male's "honour".
It enraged her male relatives which, could have only been washed with her
blood. Her uncle fired at her. She tried to escape but was followed by him
and the furious villagers. She was brutally beaten up with sticks. She was
taken to her village where her hands were chopped off. She was then stoned
to death. The body is still missing.
This brutal murder was hushed
up by bribing the head of the local police station. But the chairman of
the district public safety commission found out through an anonymous
letter. He investigated the matter and found it to be true. The police
have arrested Kehr's father, Mukhtiar Kehr. Her mother has very proudly
acknowledged that her daughter was fired at and later stoned to death
after her hands were chopped. She said: "We are not ashamed of what we
have done. Kehr's act had defamed all of us. We could not have faced the
people had we not murdered her. It was necessary to save our "honour". She
deserved. She also confessed that a police constable had helped the
killers strike a deal with Rind.
Kehr's case is the worst
case of honour killing, the first ever through stoning! She was shot,
severely beaten, amputated before she was dug half in the ground and
stoned to death.
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Most Afghan girls and women are
still expected to cover their bodies, be subservient, remain mostly apart
from men, even in the home when guests arrive, and live with their
husbands' families. There has been no return to the 1980s, when women in
the cities could safely wear miniskirts in public. Some of the burn
victims had lived in Iran as refugees while Afghanistan was under Taliban
rule beginning in the mid-1990s. They returned to a homeland that offers
women even fewer rights. Dowries are particularly daunting in Afghanistan.
In a poor nation, older and more established men are more apt to be able
to afford the $500 to $1,500 that the groom and his family are expected to
pay.
A woman named Paimana was burnt
over 90% of her body after setting herself ablaze. She had been married
for three years and had a 2-year-old daughter. Her husband had left her,
and she was in despair. In some cases, family members have set the victims
on fire. One woman burned her daughter-in-law for reasons that were not
clear. The victim died, but the older woman was not punished.
*Women Call For Equal
Rights Accueil de femmes des pays de l'Est
En provenance de Pologne, Hongrie, République Tchèque, Lituanie, Estonie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, responsables associatives ou parlementaires, ces femmes seront à Paris à l’invitation de la Fondation Jean Jaurès, pour rencontrer des associations féminines et féministes françaises regroupées au sein de la C.L.E.F parce que partie prenantes du Lobby Européen des Femmes. Pour cette rencontre du 28 février 2003, de 17h00 à 19h00, la C.L.E.F convie tous ses membres, en les priant de s’inscrire à l’avance (par e-mail sur clef.femmes@wanadoo.fr ou par courrier, 6 rue Béranger, Paris 3ème ) et de bien indiquer leur nom, coordonnées e-mail, fax ou adresse, pour qu’on puisse organiser la présentation des associations présentes à nos invitées de l'Europe élargie (apporter aussi des plaquettes de présentation de vos associations).
Education in
general and school education in particular is essential for tolerant and
democratic society. The best efforts are invested to work with the
authorities and schoolteachers to incorporate human rights and tolerance
and peace education related classes into the curriculum. It goes with
difficulties, especially bearing in mind the separation in programs,
introduction of separate obligatory religion classes, and insisting on
differences in classes of language and history. Of course, every human
being and people have the rights to express themselves and to be educated
in their own language, the problem starts when education does not provide
sufficient knowledge about different people and when it is not
establishing trust among different groups creating fear and
non-understanding. The continued violation of human rights after the war
and the weaknesses of human rights organisations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, plus the continuation of discrimination on the basis of
ethnicity are indicators of the necessity for action. Only through
continued pressure on official bodies, and through awakening of the people
to their internationally recognized human rights, can change be effected.
We are in the process of creating a network of citizens, activists,
academics and officials who will work towards the creation of a peaceful
and just society in the region.
In this view
Human Rights Office has established the Network 10 with included
organisations from different parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina with which we
exchange information and collaborate in different projects and campaigns.
Human Rights Office prepares and edits Monthly Newsletter about all
relevant activities of these NGOs disseminating information about
important activities. (...)
Prepared by
Nihad Mesic, Human Rights Office Tuzla,
Fra S. Matijevica 3, Tuzla,
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
E-News: Third Newsletter on
fighting against discrimination
*** 10 - Middle Est : Leaders Of Tomorrow Ayoon wa Azan (Leaders Of Tomorrow) Jihad Al Khazen Al-Hayat 2003/02/10 I will continue where I had stopped yesterday in discussing Arab women. I suggested yesterday that we offer Arab women an opportunity to govern because they cannot cause the harm that men have caused. I reiterate that call today, although I would like to point out that it is only a symbolic reference that aims at offering Arab women a wider opportunity. The five female doctors I had dinner with in Beirut a few days ago are of a distinguished caliber. Our women have emerged from darkness in the second half of the 20th century, and by the time the century was over they were ahead of men in the field of education in all Arab countries. I have known Saudi Arabia and the Gulf since the 1970s, when educating males in those areas was limited, yet by the end of the century, females were at the forefront in sciences and literature. Moreover, there is a noticeable change at the top as we wee in the activities of first ladies in many Arab countries. And since each year I attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, I meet Arab women who run large companies and advanced technological companies there. I have mentioned the names of some of them over the past few years, and I don’t want to embarrass them in mentioning their names again. But I will choose among the names of this year those that I read under the title "leaders of tomorrow.." The list included tens of names which the forum nominated to be among those who will lead their countries. I found three Arab names, including Dunia Taargi, Hind Suhail Bahwan and Karim Kewar. Dunia is a rising star in the world of finance, and she has played a significant role in the establishment of the stock market in Casablanca. Hind heads a technological company that operates between the U.S. and Oman, while Karim, who is Jordan’s ambassador to Washington, entered the list because he heads the association of information technology. Thus, the Davos conference found two Arab men and a woman among the leaders of the future, a ratio that means that 66..6 percent of our leaders are women, which reassures me to the future in as much as I am reassured to the present. I wish that were true or I wish we can work to make it true, because I am now convinced that women carry the salvation of the nation. Will it happen? Since the Beirut doctors have overwhelmed me with knowledge, I want to respond to them with some of what I know. There are several kinds of regimes, but in the Arab world we enjoy only the democratic rule, and any one who says otherwise will have his head severed. Other peoples of the world are not as lucky as we are. There are regimes, all of Greek origins. bentocrasy is the rule of the equals, meritocracy is the rule of the military, aczarshy, is the rule of the patriarchs, bureaucracy is the rule of public employees, and aristocracy is the rule of the nobility and autocracy is the one-man rule, while democracy is the rule of the people. (While the Greeks have taught us that word, their ancient democracy has excluded a role for women). Still, Kakistocrasy is the worst rule. Our countries are not of the later kind of rule, although I hope the reader would recall that word to use it when describing the regimes in Switzerland and Sweden. In our countries, if the regime is not a
democracy, it is androcracy, which is the rule of men. But I hope I will
live long enough to witness gynaucrasy, which is the rule of women. It has
to be better. Thus I am waiting for the year of women. (1) créer des incitations visant à accroître la perception et l'importance de la dimension femmes-hommes dans l'ensemble des programmes des Fonds structurels ; (2) identifier clairement, d'une part, le financement alloué à des actions spécifiques en faveur de l'égalité hommes-femmes, et, d'autre part, les programmes et projets qui contribuent à cette égalité (intégration de la dimension femmes-hommes). Les États membres devront rendre compte de ces chiffres à l'aide d'indicateurs clairs dans le cadre de la révision à mi-parcours des Fonds structurels à partir de 2003 ; (3) le recours à l'expertise en matière d'égalité femmes-hommes et l’instauration de mesures de sensibilisation et des formations en intégration de l'égalité femmes-hommes. LES BRÈVES DU LEF N° 01- Janvier 2003
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* La traite des êtres humains et la prostitution : la politique
suédoise
Séminaire à Paris
le 11 mars 2003
Compte tenu de l'intérêt porté récemment en France sur la législation suédoise concernant la prostitution et à l'occasion de la prochaine sortie en France de Lilya 4-ever, film suédois dramatique sur l'exploitation sexuelle d'une adolescente balte, l'Ambassade de Suède à Paris, l'Institut suédois et la Direction de l'égalité des chances du Gouvernement suédoise organisent un séminaire le 11 mars prochain à Paris.
En Suède, depuis le 1er janvier 1999, l'achat de services sexuels est interdit et depuis le 1er juillet 2002 la traite des êtres humains est pénalisée. La prostitution et le trafic des personnes sont considérées comme une violence faite surtout aux femmes et aux enfants. Quatre intervenants suédois se proposent d'expliquer la politique suédoise pour prévenir ces formes d'exploitation.
(...)
Le séminaire, en traduction simultanée, débutera à 9h00. La présentation des quatre intervenants fera l'objet d'un débat. Une légère collation vous sera proposée à midi. A 13h00 projection du film Lilya 4-ever du réalisateur suédois Lukas Moodysson (v.o. sous-titrée en français) dont la première aura lieu le 19 mars prochain. Le séminaire se terminera à 15h30.
(...)
Si vous nous répondez par e-mail, veuillez utiliser l'adresse suivante : ambassaden.paris-press@foreign.ministry.se AVANT LE 27 FEVREIER.
* * Le sexe, le genre et la psychologie
22 mars 2003 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2
Colloque organisé par le Réseau interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire national sur le genre (entrée libre)
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* England : Conference on
Hate Crimes
Nottingham Trent University England
Two-day conference at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Friday and Saturday February 21/22, on hate crimes. Enquiries direct to Dr Judith Rowbotham on judith.rowbotham@ntu.ac.uk
The conference covers an extraordinary range of hate crimes including 'Honour' killings, domestic violence, homophobia, anti-Semitism, ethnic hatred, police crimes etc. While most emphasis will be on the UK situation, an international perspective will be discussed by Lesley Abdela (lesley.abdela@shevolution.com) on the Balkan (rape as a weapon of war in ethnic conflict) .
Academics, lawyers, teachers, civil servants, students,
police, NGOs, Political activists v. welcome.
Please circulate.
From : tim.symonds@shevolution.com
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* Italy : ADVANCED COURSE FOR EDUCATORS AND TRAINERS ON HUMAN
RIGHTS EDUCATION
ACQUIRING THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS
OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
SUMMER SCHOOL
ROME (ITALY) JULY 7-11, 2003
The aim of this course is to provide educators and trainers with
scientific tools we have developed during twenty years of multidisciplinary
research, tools wich make it possible to stimulate the higher functions
of the human brain so that the person becomes aware of, and
responsible for, those values wich are biologically inherent in
each human being right from birth.
Training aimed at developing a consciousness of this values is needed
in order to allow educators to develop a truly effective approach
that enhances self-awareness and self-management in students.
This approach must be based on the concepts of dignity, freedom,
justice and love, from wich all rational and emotional aspects of
human behaviour derive.
This method, wich has been widely experimented with excellent results,
makes it possible to translate formal aspects of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights into human consciousness and behaviour.
For more information please visit our websites:
www.ceu.it ; www.dirittiumaniipv.org / Ceuroma@tin.it; Ipvroma@tin.it
From : <hr-education@hrea.org>.
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14 - Book / Livre
* Romania : Compass, the manual
on human rights education with young people / "Repères" le manuel pour la
pratique de l éducation aux droits de la Personne humaine
COMPASS, REPÈRES, « KOMPAC »
"Compass", the manual on human rights education with young people,
has just been published in French and in Russian. Recently produced by the
Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe, Compass provides
youth leaders, teachers and other educators, with concrete ideas and
practical activities to engage, involve and motivate young people to form
a positive awareness of human rights in their own ways in their own
communities. It promotes a broad understanding of human rights education
educational programmes and activities that focus on promoting equality in
human dignity and sees young people as a resource. An Internet version
will soon be available, too.
Compass can be ordered in any of these 3 languages at eycb.secretariat@coe.int
or online at http://www.book.coe.int
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"Repères"
le manuel pour la pratique de l éducation aux droits de la Personne
humaine pour les jeunes, vient de sortir en français et en russe.
Produit par la Direction de la Jeunesse et du Sport du Conseil de l
Europe, Repères intéresse les animateurs de jeunesse, les enseignants et
autres éducateurs.
Ils y trouveront des idées concrètes et des
activités pratiques, afin d'engager les jeunes dans la cause des droits de
l'homme et de les inciter à prendre des mesures pour sa défense, à leur
niveau et au sein de leur communauté respective. Cette publication entend
promouvoir largement la compréhension de l'éducation aux droits de l'homme
dans le sens d'activités et de programmes éducatifs axés sur la promotion
de l'égale dignité des êtres humains; elle appréhende en outre les jeunes
en tant que ressources.
Repères peut être commandé auprès du
secrétariat du Centre européen de la jeunesse de Budapest eycb.secretariat@coe.int ou sur
Internet http://www.book.coe.int
Natalia
Miklash
Zivatar u. 1-3, H-1024 Budapest / http://www.eycb.coe.int http://www.coe.int/hre
From :
Global Human Rights Education <hr-education@hrea.org>.
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* France : Demande d'archives
Bonjour
Dans le cadre de notre travail de création radio sur la contraception
et l’avortement, nous sommes à la recherche d’archives : enregistrement
sonores ou filmiques, réalisés à toutes les époques, et de toutes
qualités, concernant ces questions.
Il peut s’agir par exemple de chants, de prises de son lors de manifestations,
de récits, de témoignages…
Nous serions aussi intéressées par des enregistrements de journaux
télé ou radio des années 60 ou 70, qui aborderaient ces questions,
ainsi que par des disques de chansons militantes ou autres.
Si vous en avez conservé, ou si vous connaissez des gens qui l’ont
fait, pourriez-vous SVP nous contacter ?
Nous pouvons nous déplacer pour faire des copies si vous ne souhaitez
pas vous séparer des documents. N’hésitez pas à nous faire des propositions
même si elles ne vous paraissent pas correspondre exactement à notre
demande.
Si vous le souhaitez, nous pouvons vous présenter plus précisément
notre projet. Merci
!
Bat Sheva Papillon :
batshevapapillon@hotmail.com
Julie Chambon : juchambon@aol.com
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15 - Petition
* France : " Non à l'exclusion des soins ! "
SIGNEZ +++ http://www.paris.msf.org/
From : webmaster@paris.msf.org
*
* International : SOS Sexisme : Campagne internationale / International campaign
/ CampaÑa Internacional
(Signez nos pétitions ! Sign our petitions !)
LES FEMMES DEMANDENT REPARATION :
http://www.sos-sexisme.org/lesfemmes.htm#3
WOMEN ASK FOR COMPENSATION :
http://www.sossexisme.org/English/compensation.htm#3a
LAS MUJERES EXIGEN COMPENSACIÓN :
http://www.sos-sexisme.org/Spanish/compensation.htm#3a
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SOS SEXISME