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Network Newsletter  Rights and Democracy Network Number 9 November 2006 Newsletter Sections |
Call for contributions: Rights & Democracy Network Multimedia Magazine – Culture, Human Rights and Democracy
For the first edition of the Network’s Multimedia Magazine, the Network is looking for contributions such as video and radio projects, interviews, artistic creations, poems or essays on the relationship between culture, human rights and democracy. A unique opportunity for students and young professionals to have their project featured, artwork and papers published on line and disseminated internationally. In addition: a chance to be chosen among the candidates to present their contribution at the launching of the event in Regina, Saskatchewan (Canada) in February 2007.1st deadline: December 15, 2006.
The Network participates in the Canadian Tour of the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) representatives
Events in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Carleton, Montreal and St-John’s
Event at the University of Alberta with more than 120 people
Once again, thank you to our partners and to the Delegations involved in this initiative.
Emil, Lou, Min, Heikal and Amanda
for the University of Victoria, BC
Thank you all for your time and enthusiasm!
For more information on the tour with ZEF
The Network participates in the United Nations challenge: STAND UP against poverty
49 000 Canadiens stood up, 23 millions worldwide: a Guinness record is established!
Source : Millenium Campaign
49 000 Canadians joined 23 millions of people from around the world, all standing up against poverty and to remind their governments that promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals must be kept.
A Guinness record was established: a symbolic act reflecting the construction of a world solidarity.
« Speak truth to power: Voices from beyond the dark »
A play presented by the Rights & Democracy Delegation at Bishop’s University
Poster of Speak Truth to Power
For more information about the play ...
UQAM hosts its first monthly action-oriented discussion on corporate social responsibility using an interactive format!
Caroline Brodeur, a Rights & Democracy consultant, presented the five case studies undertaken to develop a new methodology to examine the effects of foreign direct investment on human rights.Following the conference, participants were each given a role to play, providing them the opportunity to better understand the role of the different actors involved. To conclude, the Delegation proposed different alternatives to raise awareness on corporate social responsibility. An evening of discussion reflecting the Network’s approaches through its participative and informative approach, where participants leave with information and concrete actions to do!
For more information on the Rights & Democracy initiative on Human Rights Impact Assessment.
http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/what_we_do/index.php?subsection=documents&lang=en&id=1489
Read the Delegation’s complete article (in French only)
Artistic exhibition: 'Bring human rights home: An exhibition of Voices Against Violence'.
Bring human rights home: An exhibition of
Voices Against Violence
Stories from the field: the Network members around the world
Many members of the Network have had diverse and unique experiences throughout the world in the fields of human rights and democracy. The Network is inviting its members to share their experiences in developing countries. To participate, just write a short article of a maximum of 500 words. You can also include photos. Send your articles to network@dd-rd.ca.
Read Angelique Myles’story, a Network member at Memorial University. Angelique spent a few weeks in China last summer. Her story reminds us that, regardless of the time spent in a foreign country, it doesn’t take much to come back transformed, aware and with new perspectives. To read Angelique’s article
United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples
Peuples / Pueblas
/ Peoples : Indigenous
Logo
Zimbabwe needs vocal, visible Canadian commitment to ending human rights crisis
Montreal, November 15, 2006 - The Government of Canada’s ruling that it cannot prosecute President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe under domestic crimes against humanity laws should not mark the end of Canada’s attention to his regime’s record of murder, torture, rape and other gross violations of human rights.
Financial boycott sends Palestinian poverty numbers soaring, finds UN report
More than 1 million Palestinians, or one in four inhabitants of the occupied territories, are now mired in deep poverty as living standards deteriorate dramatically following the economic boycott of the Palestinian Authority this year, according to a United Nations report released today.
Source : UN
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20725&Cr=Palestin&Cr1=
Chadians displaced by Darfur border killings are too afraid to return home
Source : UNhttp://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/selectstory.asp?Cr=sudan
November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Source : UN
“The General Assembly has designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and has invited governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to organize on that day activities to raise public awareness on the problem ( resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999). Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. The date came from the brutal 1961 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo”
Source: UN
For more information: http://www.un.org/events/women/violence/
Source : http://www.un.org/events/women/violence/
Fellowship and internship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The opportunity for a young lawer to understand and apply the mechanisms of protection of the Inter-American Human Rights system regarding human rights issues.
Deadline: November 30, 2006
Visit the Network forum for more information.
The Network’s on-line forum announces job and internship opportunities in Canada and around the world.
To access the forum, you must be a member of the Rights & Democracy Network. Become a member by signing up here: http://www.rightsdemocracy.net/en/membres/devenez_membre.htm
If you are already a member, visit the Forum’s jobs and internships section by clicking here: http://www.droitsdemocratie.net/network-forum/index.php?login_lang=en
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