Saturday, July 04, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Em entrevista ao Programa Mais Você (TV Globo), o cineasta bahá'í Flavio Azm Rassekh fala sobre a violência no Irã
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Testimony at the UN
Isn’t the objective of this conference to help victims?
Durban Review Conference
Oral Statement by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer
23 April 2009
Thank you, Mr. President.
The stated objective of this Durban Review Conference is to review countries’ progress on racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, in order to help millions of victims worldwide.
Today, after the conference outcome text has been adopted, we ask: Did the conference live up to its promise? Did it help millions of victims worldwide?
To answer that question, we need to listen to the victims. We did exactly that on Sunday, across the street from here, when more than 500 human rights victims, scholars and activists assembled at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy.
UN Watch was proud to be among the 40 human rights groups from around the world that organized this momentous event.
We heard from victims, who know about racial and ethnic discrimination.
From Ester Mujawayo of Rwanda, whose mother, father and husband were murdered in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, and yet who lives on — not only to remember the dead, but to treat the survivors.
From Gibreil Hamid of Darfur, who told us, in tears, about 50 of his relatives murdered in the racist genocide that continues there.
From Kristyiana Valcheva, one of the five Bulgarian nurses, and from Ashraf El –Hajoj, the Palestinian doctor — all of whom were framed, convicted and tortured in Libya, discriminated for being foreigners.
We also heard from victims of discrimination on grounds cited in Section 2 of the DDPA, based on sex, religion, political or other opinion.
We heard victim testimony from Soe Aung, a dissident from Burma.
From Nazanin Afshin-Jam, President of Stop Child Executions, about children on death row in Iran
From Ahmad Batebi from Iran, the student demonstrator who was tortured for 9 years in Iran, with his picture on the front cover of the Economist holding his friend’s bloodied t-shirt.
From Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the former political prisoner from Egypt.
From José Castillo, the former political prisoner from Cuba.
From Marlon Zakeyo, who fights political repression in Zimbabwe
From Pavel Marozau, human rights defender from Belarus.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: Islamic Republic of Iran—what’s the point of order?
IRAN: Thank you Mr. Chairman. We should kindly advise the speaker to confine his observation to the theme of item number 9 and reframe from making references to names of countries—member state countries. Otherwise, according to your ruling, he should be stopped from continuation of his speech.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: May I ask the speaker to please take into consideration the observations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and stick to subject under discussion, namely the issues arising from the objectives of the review conference.
[UN Watch resumes testimony]
Now, here in my hands I hold the outcome of this conference.
To the distinguished delegates in this hall, I ask:
Why are does it ignore all of the situations represented by these victims?
In a conference that promised to review country performance on racism, why did the conference in fact fail to review a single country that perpetrates racism, discrimination and intolerance?
Why did the conference fail to review a single abuser?
Why is it silent on women facing systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia?
Why is it silent on gays persecuted and even executed in Iran? On ethnic repression in Tibet?
Why is this conference, which promised to help Africans, silent on black Africans now being raped slaughtered by racist Sudan?
Mr. President,
I ask: If this a Review Conference, can someone tell me who has been reviewed?
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: There is a point of order again from Iran—the Islamic Republic of Iran.
IRAN: Yes, thank you Mr. Chair. I don’t think that I will need to repeat my proposal. I would ask you to kindly pronounce the speaker out of order and stop him from continuation of his statement. I thank you.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: I think I do call the speaker to order and I would like to introduce the appropriate language. You only have minutes left so stick to the points—the objectives of this review conference.
[UN Watch resumes testimony]
I shall conclude merely with one question: has this conference really helped millions of victims worldwide? If so, who are they?
Thank you, Mr. President.
Durban Review Conference
Oral Statement by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer
23 April 2009
Thank you, Mr. President.
The stated objective of this Durban Review Conference is to review countries’ progress on racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, in order to help millions of victims worldwide.
Today, after the conference outcome text has been adopted, we ask: Did the conference live up to its promise? Did it help millions of victims worldwide?
To answer that question, we need to listen to the victims. We did exactly that on Sunday, across the street from here, when more than 500 human rights victims, scholars and activists assembled at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy.
UN Watch was proud to be among the 40 human rights groups from around the world that organized this momentous event.
We heard from victims, who know about racial and ethnic discrimination.
From Ester Mujawayo of Rwanda, whose mother, father and husband were murdered in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis, and yet who lives on — not only to remember the dead, but to treat the survivors.
From Gibreil Hamid of Darfur, who told us, in tears, about 50 of his relatives murdered in the racist genocide that continues there.
From Kristyiana Valcheva, one of the five Bulgarian nurses, and from Ashraf El –Hajoj, the Palestinian doctor — all of whom were framed, convicted and tortured in Libya, discriminated for being foreigners.
We also heard from victims of discrimination on grounds cited in Section 2 of the DDPA, based on sex, religion, political or other opinion.
We heard victim testimony from Soe Aung, a dissident from Burma.
From Nazanin Afshin-Jam, President of Stop Child Executions, about children on death row in Iran
From Ahmad Batebi from Iran, the student demonstrator who was tortured for 9 years in Iran, with his picture on the front cover of the Economist holding his friend’s bloodied t-shirt.
From Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the former political prisoner from Egypt.
From José Castillo, the former political prisoner from Cuba.
From Marlon Zakeyo, who fights political repression in Zimbabwe
From Pavel Marozau, human rights defender from Belarus.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: Islamic Republic of Iran—what’s the point of order?
IRAN: Thank you Mr. Chairman. We should kindly advise the speaker to confine his observation to the theme of item number 9 and reframe from making references to names of countries—member state countries. Otherwise, according to your ruling, he should be stopped from continuation of his speech.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: May I ask the speaker to please take into consideration the observations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and stick to subject under discussion, namely the issues arising from the objectives of the review conference.
[UN Watch resumes testimony]
Now, here in my hands I hold the outcome of this conference.
To the distinguished delegates in this hall, I ask:
Why are does it ignore all of the situations represented by these victims?
In a conference that promised to review country performance on racism, why did the conference in fact fail to review a single country that perpetrates racism, discrimination and intolerance?
Why did the conference fail to review a single abuser?
Why is it silent on women facing systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia?
Why is it silent on gays persecuted and even executed in Iran? On ethnic repression in Tibet?
Why is this conference, which promised to help Africans, silent on black Africans now being raped slaughtered by racist Sudan?
Mr. President,
I ask: If this a Review Conference, can someone tell me who has been reviewed?
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: There is a point of order again from Iran—the Islamic Republic of Iran.
IRAN: Yes, thank you Mr. Chair. I don’t think that I will need to repeat my proposal. I would ask you to kindly pronounce the speaker out of order and stop him from continuation of his statement. I thank you.
KENYAN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMOS WAKO: I think I do call the speaker to order and I would like to introduce the appropriate language. You only have minutes left so stick to the points—the objectives of this review conference.
[UN Watch resumes testimony]
I shall conclude merely with one question: has this conference really helped millions of victims worldwide? If so, who are they?
Thank you, Mr. President.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Juristas debatem liberdade religiosa
OAB de São Paulo reúne advogados, magistrados e estudantes de direito para tratar do tema.
A Missão Portas Abertas, entidade internacional que defende a causa da liberdade religiosa, participou na última quarta-feira, dia 18 de março, de uma palestra sobre o tema no salão nobre da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) de São Paulo. O evento, intitulado “A universalidade dos direitos humanos e liberdade religiosa” contou com a exposição do desembargador Antonio Carlos Malheiros, do Tribunal de Justiça paulista, do vice-presidente da Associação Brasileira de Liberdade Religiosa e Cidadania (ABLIRC), Aldir Guedes Soriano e do conselheiro seccional da OAB-SP, Marcelo Ferrari Tacca.
Cerca de 100 pessoas, a maioria advogados e estudantes de direito, além de representantes de Portas Abertas, acompanharam os debates. Os três palestrantes destacaram a liberdade de crença que existe no país e mencionaram a dificuldade de expor a questão e a importância de se salvar vidas, servindo às pessoas que sofrem com restrições à sua fé ao redor do mundo. Segundo Malheiros, pior que o desconhecimento é o desinteresse. “Jesus Cristo foi corajoso, tolerante e defensor dos direitos humanos”, frisou. No entender do magistrado, a solidariedade caminha junto com tais direitos.
Aldir Soriano lembrou que a liberdade religiosa envolve vários direitos, já que esses não existem isoladamente, mas são interelacionados. “O Estado deve proteger as pessoas porque elas têm direito de escolha e a religião pode ser um bem a quem a pratica, mas também pode ser um mal quando está associada a interesses estatais”, alertou. “Os direitos fundamentais não são dados pelos governantes. São direitos natos de todo ser humano. O Estado não os deu e não pode tirar ou restringir sem uma razão plausível.” Segundo o advogado, a perseguição religiosa alcança todas as religiões, mas pelo fato de o cristianismo ser a maior religião no mundo, o risco para os cristãos também é maior. Para ilustrar sua fala, ele usou em sua exposição o mapa da classificação de países por perseguição religiosa, elaborado todos os anos por Portas Abertas.
A Missão Portas Abertas, entidade internacional que defende a causa da liberdade religiosa, participou na última quarta-feira, dia 18 de março, de uma palestra sobre o tema no salão nobre da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) de São Paulo. O evento, intitulado “A universalidade dos direitos humanos e liberdade religiosa” contou com a exposição do desembargador Antonio Carlos Malheiros, do Tribunal de Justiça paulista, do vice-presidente da Associação Brasileira de Liberdade Religiosa e Cidadania (ABLIRC), Aldir Guedes Soriano e do conselheiro seccional da OAB-SP, Marcelo Ferrari Tacca.
Cerca de 100 pessoas, a maioria advogados e estudantes de direito, além de representantes de Portas Abertas, acompanharam os debates. Os três palestrantes destacaram a liberdade de crença que existe no país e mencionaram a dificuldade de expor a questão e a importância de se salvar vidas, servindo às pessoas que sofrem com restrições à sua fé ao redor do mundo. Segundo Malheiros, pior que o desconhecimento é o desinteresse. “Jesus Cristo foi corajoso, tolerante e defensor dos direitos humanos”, frisou. No entender do magistrado, a solidariedade caminha junto com tais direitos.
Aldir Soriano lembrou que a liberdade religiosa envolve vários direitos, já que esses não existem isoladamente, mas são interelacionados. “O Estado deve proteger as pessoas porque elas têm direito de escolha e a religião pode ser um bem a quem a pratica, mas também pode ser um mal quando está associada a interesses estatais”, alertou. “Os direitos fundamentais não são dados pelos governantes. São direitos natos de todo ser humano. O Estado não os deu e não pode tirar ou restringir sem uma razão plausível.” Segundo o advogado, a perseguição religiosa alcança todas as religiões, mas pelo fato de o cristianismo ser a maior religião no mundo, o risco para os cristãos também é maior. Para ilustrar sua fala, ele usou em sua exposição o mapa da classificação de países por perseguição religiosa, elaborado todos os anos por Portas Abertas.
Friday, December 05, 2008
China: 400 estudantes cristãos foram detidos e interrogados
Mais de 400 estudantes cristãos foram detidos e interrogados na china por freqüentarem pequenos grupos que se reúnem em residências (igrejas-casa). Quatro líderes espirituais foram enviados para campos de reeducação ou trabalhos forçados.
Tal repressão faz parte do programa de restrição do direito à liberdade religiosa após as Olimpíadas de Pequim.
Fonte: ChinaAid_1
Para saber mais:
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ChinaAid_3
Tal repressão faz parte do programa de restrição do direito à liberdade religiosa após as Olimpíadas de Pequim.
Fonte: ChinaAid_1
Para saber mais:
ChinaAid_2
ChinaAid_3
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