http://word.world-citizenship.org WORLD-WIDE ASIAN-EURASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:10:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en also called Sallah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Linked with Must He Die? Meet A Muslim Dissident, with Choudhury speach to IFLAC’s writers’ symposium, and with BLiTZ (the english online Version). SALAH UDDIN SHOAIB CHOUDHURY is EDITOR & PUBLISHER of BLiTZ, THE ONLY ANTI-JIHADIST NEWSPAPER in Bangladesh. His country wants to hang him, and this could ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2374 Linked with Civil Society International CSI. Holt Ruffin is the founder and executive director of the Civil Society International. "He is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, 1966) and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (MPA, 1975). Mr. Ruffin’s work experience includes six years in the Economics/Policy Research Department of ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2372 Linked with Reflections on Twenty-First Century Socialism. James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, U.S., and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published prolifically on Latin American and Middle Eastern political issues ... (full text). ... He's ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2370 Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist. Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Daily Columbian, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, and The Georgia Straight. Glavin's writing covers ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2368 Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware and the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, running alongside presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is currently serving his ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2366 ... It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, beloved mother to Mervyn Jones II, sister to Barbara L. Walker, dear colleague, loyal servant and friend to all ... Her death followed a full day of activities, including planning for an ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2364 Linked with Impeachment Begins, with Kucinich gets his day, and with Bruce Fein - USA. Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2362 Linked with Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit RMMRU.Net. Sumaiya Khair is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and an Instructor at the Department of Clinical Legal Education Programme. She has a Ph.D. from U.K. and has obtained her LL.B.(Hons.) and LL.M. degrees from the University ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2360 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born 23 April 1947, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland), also known as Bernadette Devlin and Bernadette McAliskey, is a Socialist republican political activist. She served as a Member of Parliament at Westminster from ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2358 ... Bret Benjamin is an associate professor of English at SUNY Albany, author of Invested Interests: Culture, Capital, and the World Bank, and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus ... (full text). ... His most recent work is in transnational cultural studies, studying in particular various aspects of globalization ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2356 Linked with The Janusz Korczak International News, with JKB Korczak Prize in Burundi: Encouraging peace, and with Center for the Protection of Children, Bishkek. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1877 – August 1942): (he) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, known as Pan Doktor ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2354 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Having suffered Stalin's deportation of the Chechen people to Central Asia, Maya Shovkhalova (born 1936) returned to Grozny in 1958. She graduated from the Tbilisi Music Conservatory. In the 1990s, she was a member of the Commission ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2352 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Nilda Estigarribia grew up fighting against the abuses committed by the Paraguayan military dictatorship led by General Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989). She was part of the only organization for the defense of human rights to exist during that ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2350 Linked with Muslim Women: The Dangerous Triangle, with Indian Muslims And The Media, and with ISLAMIC VOICE. Nigar Ataulla is the Associate Editor of the Bangalore-based magazine Islamic Voice. She writes: ... Muslim representation in the Indian media is dismal, while Muslims' share in media ownership is even more pathetic. Muslims do ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2348 Linked with Is Africa A Cold War Battleground; Sam Akaki is Executive Director, Democratic Institutions for Poverty Reduction in Africa DIPRA (no own website found). He has said (he is cited by Fred Khumalo): ... "“The first step is to recognise that liberal democracy, which they are enjoying in the UK today, ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2346 Linked with China - Olympics - Capitalism - Naomi Klein. Paul Jay is a Canadian journalist who is currently chair of Independent World Television - The Real News, a project to establish an independent news and current affairs network without government or corporate funding TheRealNews.com The network will be supported by ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2344 Linked with 2080 land cases treated in Mozambican city in 18 months. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Zaida Cabral, born in 1951 in Maputo (Mozambique), is an educationalist. She is currently an education advisor for the Danish NGO Danida in the Mozambiquan capital ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2342 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. When the Children’s Center "Nadjeschda" (hope) began to work with abandoned children in 1989, hardly anyone in Kyrgyzstan knew what future these children would face. In the village where the children were to be cared for, feelings ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2339 Linked with The Tragic Last Moments Of Margaret Hassan. Margaret Hassan (also known as Madam Margaret), born April 18, 1945 was an aid worker who had worked in Iraq for many years until she was abducted and murdered by unidentified kidnappers in Iraq in 2004, at the age of 59. She ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2337 Linked with Global Partnership for the Prevention of armed conflict GPPAC, and with Center for Education, Counselling and Research CESI. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Before the war, Dragica Aleksa lived comfortably with her husband and two children on their farm in the ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2334 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Binda Pandey (born 1966) has been involved in Nepal's trade union movement for the past 15 years as an activist and educator. She is a leader of the iron and chemical workers' unions, and the driving force ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2332 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Zuleika Alembert (1922) started her political militancy fighting against the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas during the Estado Novo (New State – second phase of Vargas’ first government – 1937-1945). She was elected constituent deputy for the state ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2330 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Letizia Battaglia, Sicilian, born in 1935, is a photographer. With her camera she captures Sicilian life: the cruel violence of the Cosa Nostra and the deep pain of Mafia victims. With her photographs, she breaks the "omertà", ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2328 Linked with AKHA.net; and with Articles for Indigenous Peoples on our blogs. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Sinuan does not know exactly when she was born. In 2005, she estimates that she is around 40 years old. Born in Huay Ung, on the ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2326 Elisa Gahapon del Puerto has passed away ... (just this mention on her 1000peacewomen 1/2-page) ... ... but not any mention of her dead's date, nor how she died !!! Nothing in any online-news or articles. Was this all about a brave women on this planet ?? She was one of the ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2324 Linked with mindfully.org, with Food policy and Globalization, and with Indian Food Policy IFP. Devinder Sharma is an Indian journalist, writer, thinker. He is well-known and respected for his views on food and trade policy. Trained as an agricultural scientist, Sharma has been the Development Editor of the Indian Express, the ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2322 Linked with Derechos Chile. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Since 1976, when her father was kidnapped by the Chilean Armed Forces, Viviana Díaz has never stopped looking for him. Along with the Association of Relatives of Disappeared Political Prisoners, she broke the wall ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2320 2008-07-01: Eric Alterman - USA; 2008-07-02: Gareth Porter - USA; 2008-07-03: Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo - Mexico-Jalpan; 2008-07-04: Nilda Medina-Diaz - Puerto Rico; 2008-07-05: María del Pilar Callizo López Moreira - Paraguay; 2008-07-06: Bülent Ersoy - Turkey; 2008-07-07: Kaisha Atakhanova - Kazakhstan; 2008-07-08: Nurjahan Begum - India; 2008-07-09: Sumitra - India; 2008-07-10: Rand Clifford - USA; 2008-07-11: Biserka Momcinovic ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2289 Linked with The Black Alliance for Educational Options BAEO. He is college administrator; school administrator; founder ... (full long bio and work). ... While well-known in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a long-time proponent of better educational opportunities for the city's minority student population, and as a high-profile superintendent of the city's public schools ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2318 Danilo Dolci (Sesana, June 28, 1924 – Partinico, PA, December 30, 1997) was a social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet. He is best known for his opposition against poverty, social exclusion and the Mafia on Sicily and is considered to be one of the protagonists of the non-violence movement ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2316 Linked with Amy Goodman - USA, with Parecon and Aspirations, with Mandisi Majavu - South Africa, with Participatory Economics, with again Alternative Economy, with the parecon idea, with ParEcon - A Participatory Economy, with Which Way Venezuela, with the London Project for a Participatory Society LPPS, with Social Reports 2005 and  ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2314 Linked with the American Freedom Agenda AFA, with Liberty, and with Kucinich gets his day. Bruce Fein is a lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitutional and international law. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and his father was the famous Louis Fein who pioneered the internet and electronics ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2312 Linked with The World Future Council. Professor Prabhu Guptara (born 1949 in Delhi, India) is an authority on the impact of technology on globalization, on strategy, on knowledge management, on corporate social responsibility, on comparative and cross-cultural ethics, and on management and leadership issues Widely known as a speaker and broadcaster, ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2310 Linked with Congress, banks and home owners. Danny Schechter, nicknamed "The News Dissector," is a television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic who writes and lectures frequently about the media in the United States and worldwide ... Schechter worked as a civil rights worker and communications director of the Northern ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2308 Linked with Women in Black worldwide, with The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, with Global Action, and with Britain's new nuclear abolitionists. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Rebecca Johnson is a feminist, peace activist and citizen diplomat, whose work on disarmament negotiations prompted ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2306 She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. A nurse and therapeutic specialist, Sr. Maria Christina Färber (born in 1957) worked with children from broken homes in Germany. In 1999, during the Kosovo War, she moved to the Albanian city of Shkodra, where she helped ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2304 Linked with Women’s Earth Alliance WEA. She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005. Marta is a Salvadoran activist, theologian and educator. She is the Founder of Ecohouse and the International Institute for Cooperation Amongst Peoples-IICP. Marta has developed ecological programs at the local, regional and ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2302 Edward Wadie Saïd, MRSL (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, a cultural critic, a political activist, and an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is a founding figure in postcolonial theory ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2300 nked with videos concerning the US, with blogpac bp, and with Finding Your Obviousmeter. Matt Stoller writes at the progressive strategy site OpenLeft.com and is the President of the political action committee BlogPAC. He consults for the Sunlight Foundation on open government, for Actblue, and for Working Assets, a progressive phone ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2298 Linked with Women’s Earth Alliance WEA, and with Wiser Earth.org. Ms. Nadya Boneva is well-known within Bulgaria and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development. She has deep experience working within governmental, business arenas and has created partnerships among NGOs and different ... http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2296