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ま
す。
HRNとしてははじめてとなりますが、アフリカでジェノサイドに匹敵するといわれる事態が発生しているスーダン、ダルフール地方の人権状況をとりげたシ
ンポジウムの開催です。
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東京大学「人間の安全保障」プログラム ＆ ヒューマンライツ・ナウ 共催シ
ンポジウム
今そこにある危機
ダルフール・ジェノサイドに何ができるか
Genocide in Darfur: It is our responsibility
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http://human-security.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium/sympo20091018.htm
日時： 2009年10月18日（日） 13:30-17:00
Date & Time: 13:30-17:00 Sunday, October 18, 2009
場所： 東京大学駒場キャンパス 18号館ホール
Venue: Hall, Build.18 of Komaba Campus, the University of Tokyo
開会挨拶 (13:30-13:40) Opening Remarks
山影 進 Susumu YAMAKAGE
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科長
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo
学生の発表 Presentation by Students (13:40-13:50)
第一部: Part I (13:40-13:50)
講 演 Speeches (13:50-15:00)
木寺 昌人 Masato Kitera
外務省国際協力局長・前アフリカ審議官:
Director-General of International Cooperation Bureau/ Former
Director-
General for Sub-Saharan African Affairs
サリー・オスマンSalih Osman
スーダン国会議員・弁護士
Member of National Parliament in Sudan/ Advocate
休 憩 Break (15:00-15:20)
第二部: Part I (13:40-13:50)
パネルディスカッション Panel Discussion (15:20-16:45)
伊藤 和子 Kazuko ITO
ヒューマンライツ・ナウ事務局長:
Human Rights Now
コメンテーター Commentator (15:20-16:45)
サリー・オスマンSalih Osman
スーダン国会議員・弁護士
Member of National Parliament in Sudan/ Advocate
パネリスト Panelists (15:20-16:45)
ヨハン・セルス Johan Cels
UNHCR 駐日代表: Representative of UNHCR Tokyo
土井 香苗 Kanae DOI
ヒューマン・ライツ・ウォッチ： Human Rights Watch
佐藤啓太郎 Keitaro SATO
外務省アフリカ紛争・難民問題担当大使兼国連改革担当大使:
Ambassador in Charge of Peace Building and Refugee-Related Issues in
Africa/ Special Envoy for UN Reform
福井美穂 Miho Fukui
難民を助ける会:
Association for Aid and Relief Japan
学生からのメッセージ Message from Staff (16:45-16:50)
学生スタッフ Student Staff
閉会挨拶 Closing Remarks (16:50-17:00)
丸山 真人 masato MARUYAMA
東京大学総合文化研究科「人間の安全保障」プログラム運営委員長:
Chair of Human Security Program, the University of Tokyo Human Rights
Now
-スタッフより-
アフリカ、スーダン、そしてダルフールというと、「遠いところ」、「無関係な
ところ」、「知らないところ」、というイメージがもしかしたらあるかもしれま
せん。しかし、ダルフールの人々も私達と同じように、日々笑い、悲しみ、生き
ているということを思ったとき、このとてつもなく大きな人権侵害に無関心では
いられないと私達は考えました。そして勉強していくうちに、ダルフールと日本
は、世界の様々な利害や思惑を背景に密接に関係していることが少しずつ分かっ
てきました。ダルフールのことにもっと関心をもっていただきたい、そして望む
らくは何か少しでも人権侵害を止める一助になりたい。そんな思いで、私たち学
生が中心となってこのシンポジウムを企画しました。 私たちに何ができるのか？
大学を通じて、NGOを通じて、政府を通じて、国連を通じて。ダルフールにつ
いて何も知らなくても大歓迎です。様々な視点からダルフール問題について一緒
に話し合いましょう。
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でご回答下さいますよう、お願いいたします。
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(特定非営利活動法人)ヒューマンライツ・ナウ
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科 「人間の安全保障」プログラム
東京大学ジェノサイド研究会
Monday, October 5, 2009
[info_ngo_hrn] 10月18日HRN& 東大主催シンポ「今そこにある危機 ダルフール・ジェノサイドに何ができるか」
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Migrants' journey of hope ends in tragedy
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/611581
Africans seeking new life in Europe feared dead as overloaded boat sinks
Apr 01, 2009 04:30 AM
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Olivia Ward
FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER
Hope has been abandoned for about 300 missing African men, women and children, who are feared to have drowned on a perilous voyage from Libya to Italy seeking economic survival at a time of growing global desperation.
"The search has stopped, and we have no more information on their fate," said Michele Bombassei, head of technical co-operation for the International Organization for Migration in Tripoli, Libya.
A boat said to be carrying 356 people – but designed to hold just 75 – capsized Sunday near an oil platform 50 kilometres off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
Libyan coast guard officials retrieved at least 23 bodies and rescued 23 survivors before halting the search.
Two other vessels lost radio contact in turbulent weather; the Geneva-based group said it was unclear whether they were local fishing boats or other shipments of migrants.
An Italian-Libyan pact to patrol the Libyan coast will be launched May 15. But it is unlikely to stem the flow of thousands of illegal migrants trying to escape starvation, war and political persecution in Africa.
A recent report by the British government says the impoverished continent faces economic decline because of the global financial downturn, driving many to seek riskier escape routes.
"Smugglers often use unseaworthy and overcrowded boats to carry migrants who have had to pay large sums for their journey," the migration group said, adding that last year nearly 36,000 people arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a beachhead for migrants seeking work in Europe. The numbers more than doubled since 2007.
In Geneva, migration group spokesperson Jean-Philippe Chauzy told reporters that migrants heading for Italy often face appalling conditions.
"There's no safety equipment on those boats – no buoys, dinghies or anything – because the purpose is to cram (in) as many people as possible ..."
Those who make it to Lampedusa – the closest Italian point from Libya – get a hostile reception. It is home to swelling numbers of migrants who once were removed to the mainland for detention, but are placed in a full-to-bursting camp.
Italy, hard hit by the economic shock, is hoping the sea patrols will prevent a catastrophic migration crisis. More than 600 new arrivals were found along Italy's southern coast this week alone.
In a phone interview from Tripoli, Bombassei said many of the migrants who arrive in Libya stay there if they find jobs in the oil-rich country. With a small population of 6.2 million, it has labour shortages at a time when other countries are grappling with unemployment.
"Notwithstanding the (low) price of oil, Libya is in an economic boom," Bombassei said. "The government has started an important program of refurbishing cities, and news of jobs travels quickly."
Some migrants find construction work or more skilled employment. But the majority have a day-to-day struggle for survival, and the discouraged try to move on to Europe.
Early spring marks the beginning of the smuggling season in the Mediterranean Sea, said Ron Redmond, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The sea is generally warmer and calmer during this time of year, though strong storms still occur.
With files from the Star's news services
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Dear Mr President, I want to buy a foreign policy-SOUTH AFRICA
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71639?oid=123510&sn=Detail
Howard Sackstein
31 March 2009
Howard Sackstein writes to Kgalema Motlanthe asking what's on offer, and how much it will be
Dear Mr President,
Please forgive me. I was both inexcusably wrong and hopelessly naive. I mistakenly used to believe that South African foreign policy should somehow reflect the moral lessons that we, as a nation, learned during the lengthy period of our dark ages. But Mr President, I now realise that I was utterly puerile and hopelessly callow.
Why should our facade to the world reflect those lofty and wishy-washy ideals contained in our constitution? I have now belatedly realised that, like so many other state assets, we have merely privatised our country's foreign policy - and why not, I ask?
So what, if we have sold our foreign policy on the occupation of Tibet and the oppression of the people of Burma to China. I am sure we have received good value for this - and those trendy knock-off shoes sown by those industrious little 6 year olds and the thousands of prisoners on death row will no doubt be shipped to us even cheaper. And let's face it, during these tough economic times who can afford a pair of real Prada shoes when fake ones come at one hundredth of the price.
I now understand that Deputy Minister Hajaig's racist anti-semitic outburst was probably sponsored by Iran, as was out refusal to co-sponsor the General Assembly resolution on Holocaust denial and our mysterious absence to vote in its favour. I hope we got proper money from those Iranians, I hear they have a glut of Persian carpets, also handily made by entrepreneurial tweens, and they are good hagglers so, I hope we bargained well for the best deal.
I presume our entire Middle East policy has been purchased by Arab petro dollars - I hope they didn't pay us in oil - you know what's happened to the price of crude these days. Don't do anything for Hamas or Hizbollah without pre-payment - I hear from other countries that they are not good payers.
Rumour has it that we bartered our Zimbabwe foreign policy to Bob for some farms. I hope the rumour's not true that the farms went to politicians rather than to the treasury - foreign policy is a state asset and we all need to benefit from its sale. Did we give him back Captain Morgan because he didn't pay us in full?
I can't for the life of me understand what President Lt-Gen Omar el-Bashir of Sudan gave us in return for the protection we have afforded him for his genocide in Darfur - I don't think those Sudanese have much? But then again I hear that the Chinese are generally willing to underwrite el-Bashir's debts, maybe we gave his protection as part of a bigger package deal, like one of those Fifa 2010 packages you can buy on the internet. Make sure you get a guarantee from a Chinese Bank. Let's face it, when its time to collect, the last place you want a guarantee from is Citi Bank or Barclays.
It's quite evident to me that our participation in the much maligned UN Human Rights Council must be a very lucrative enterprise for us. It's almost like a spot on the International Olympic Committee. I bet Pakistan and the Organisation of Islamic Congress coughed up lots of cash for our vote against freedom of expression on religion and to not support the General Assembly declaration on gay rights - how did those things get into our Constitution anyway?
Trevor Manual must be loving it! Who needs taxes when your entire Budget can be funded by foreign countries and organizations buying your foreign policy. No wonder he came out in support of our decision to deny a visa to the Dalai Lama. From what I understand His Holiness, the saffron clad monk, earns very little salary and could probably not even have afforded the Visa fees even if we had granted it to him. The Pope, on the other hand, has an entire empire and art works worth billions - when he wants a Visa let's put the price up - he can afford it. It's a similar system that the British seem to be using against us when we want to go watch their Queen in concert at Buckingham Palace.
You may have to share a little of the bounty with Minister Hogan - those random outburst of rational principle are enough to frighten away any purchaser.
So now Mr President, this brings me to the real point of my letter. It's my mother's birthday in April and I was really not sure what to buy her as a gift - and then I thought, why not buy her one of our country's foreign policies.
I don't have that much money, so I doubt I could afford a really important foreign policy like condemning Russia for its invasion of Georgia or its gross human rights violations in Chechnya or for that matter condemning the abuse of women in Arab countries or their lack of democracy and I am convinced I couldn't afford a policy to criticise Hamas for firing nearly 10 000 rockets at Israel over the last few years. I am sure that would cost a lot because I would have to pay the government, ANC and Cosatu.
I was thinking more on the lines of doing something to an obscure un-important nation. So, how much would it cost to impose sanctions on Micronesia? Or what is the price to lobby to elect the King of Bhutan as Secretary General of the United Nations?
I was also thinking of an international campaign against the banking secrecy or tax evasion status of Belize or the Cayman Islands, but if any of our politicians have stashed their cash there, it may be a little too rich for my budget to buy that particular foreign policy.
I am sure I have not exhausted all the options on the menu so, I kindly ask you or your foreign minister to e-mail me a price list for all of our foreign policy options and I am sure I will be able to find one that will make my mother really happy on her special day, and that I can afford.
I live in hope that one day, the people of this great tapestry which is our nation, will be able to once again look upon our government with respect and pride.
Warm Regards,
Howard
Thursday, March 26, 2009
South Africa’s decision to ban Dalai Lama outrages Nobel peace laureates
http://blog.taragana.com/n/south-africas-decision-to-ban-dalai-lama-outrages-nobel-peace-laureates-20758/
LONDON - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been barred from entering South Africa to take part in a peace conference linked to the 2010 football World Cup, plunging the country into a diplomatic row.
The decision was met with outrage by fellow Nobel peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the former President F. W. de Klerk, who are organising the conference on March 27 with the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee.
Archbishop Tutu urged the South African Government, which has close ties to China, to reconsider its “disgraceful” decision and threatened to boycott the meeting, planned to promote the first World Cup tournament to be held in Africa, The Times reported.
“If His Holiness’s visa is refused, then I won’t take part in the upcoming 2010 World Cup-related peace conference. I will condemn the Government’s behaviour as disgraceful, in line with our abysmal record at the UN Security Council, a total betrayal of our struggle history.”
“We are shamelessly succumbing to Chinese pressure. I feel deeply distressed and ashamed,” he said from California.
South Africa vetoed proposals for tougher sanctions against Zimbabwe and Burma when it occupied a non-permanent seat on the Security Council last year.
An invitation to the conference was also issued in the name of Nelson Mandela, another laureate. He has not yet reacted to the Government’s decision.
A senior presidential aide told The Times that the Dalai Lama’s presence in the country “would not be welcome as it would divert attention away from the World Cup” towards the Tibet issue.
Dave Steward, a spokesman for the F. W. de Klerk Foundation, said that the former President has expressed concern to the presidency and the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
South Africa is China’s main trading partner in Africa and accounts for more than 20 per cent of Beijing’s trade with the continent. (ANI)
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