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EDIEC Newsletter June/July
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From:
Iratxe Florez <i.florez@aimforhumanrights.nl>
Subject:
EDIEC Newsletter June/July
Date:
2008-06-09 11:24
Dear all,
Please see here the1st edition of the Enforced Disappearances Information Exchange Center bi-monthly newsletter. This newsletter is also available for download at http://www.ediec.org/home/
Let us know your comments or questions,
Best regards,
Iratxe Flórez
Officer Content Management EDIEC
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The aim of the Enforced Disappearances Information Exchange Center is to centralise and exchange information about enforced disappearances and facilitate contact and communication between interested parties. EDIEC has been developed and is maintained by Linking Solidarity , a programme of the organisation Aim for human rights thanks to the co-financing of the European Union.
Enforced Disappearances Exchange Information Center
Bi-monthly Newsletter. June/July
This is the first publication of the EDIEC newsletter. This newsletter provides an overview on news, publications, agenda items and interesting articles about the issue of enforced disappearances. If you had questions, comments or suggestions about this newsletter or the EDIEC, we would like to hear and answer them.
Email us at info@enforceddisappearances.org .
News Highlights
The 'Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo' nominated for Nobel Peace Award [English, Spanish]
After two unsuccessful attempts, the Norwegian Nobel Committee that evaluates the candidates of the Nobel Peace Prize accepted the nomination of 'Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo'. The nomination filed last January by Senator Daniel Filmus, former education minister, has just been approved.
The Grandmothers had been candidates for personal initiatives in 2001 and 2007, but the proposal did not prospered so far. Filmus began working on the project last year, when his tenure as minister of education ended. He presented the project in January this year, as a national senator.
Creation of new family members committee for the presentation with life of the Detained-Disappeared in Mexico . [Spanish]
The Latin American Federation of association of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (FEDEFAM) and Asociación of Relatives of Disappeared and Victims of Human Rights Violations in Mexico (AFADEM) introduced the new Comité de Familiares por la Presentación con Vida de los Detenidos Desaparecidos (1990-2008). This committee aims to demand the presentation of missing relatives alive, to achieve truth and justice, and to end the impunity that allows the continuation of this abhorrent practice that affects both victims and society as a whole
AFAD Commemorates the Week of the Disappeared . [English]
'The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances joins all families of the disappeared persons around the world in the commemoration of the International Week of the Disappeared from May 26 to June 1. This week of the desaparecidos was first commemorated by the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared-Detainees (FEDEFAM) more than a couple of decades ago.' Continue reading the Statement made by AFAD in this commemorative week.
Resources published recently
The State of the World's Human Rights . Report [English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian]
Algeria - Documenting Disappearance: Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image . Documentary [English and French]
Indonesia - Truth and Reconciliation in Aceh . Documentary [English]
Kashmir - Facts Under Ground: A fact-finding mission on nameless graves & mass graves in Uri area . Report [English]
Perú - El Estado frente a las Víctimas de la violencia. ¿Hacia donde vamos en polítcas de reparación y justicia? . Book [Spanish]
Sri Lanka - State Responsibility for "Disappearances" and Abductions in Sri Lanka . Report [English]
Also of interest
Lebanon - Liban: Disparitions forcees et detentions au secret . Report [French, Arab]
UNWGEID - Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances . Report [English]
Perú - Chuschi: Dieciséis años de Lucha, Hasta Alcanzar Justicia . Book [Spanish]
Argentina - M . Documentary [Spanish]
Agenda
Quezon City, Philippines 4th of June. The Asian Federation Against Disappearances commemorated its 10th anniversary . The celebrations were attended by all the member organisations of AFAD and representatives of FEDEFAM in between others. The celebrations had had a common theme of 'A Decade of Journey Towards a World Without Desaparecidos.'
Huancavelica, Peru 14th of June. The Peruvian human rights organisation Qatary Panituri organises a forum over enforced disappearances . Participants to this event will be mainly family members of the disappeared, lawyers and representatives of the judicial system of the region. After the forum a training for representatives of family member organisations of all provinces in this region will follow. This training covers some of the legal action mechanisms that can be put into practice in case of an enforced disappearance. This training is part of the Linking Solidarity LiLA capacity building programme.
Rabat, Morocco 12th - 14th of June. The Euro-Mediterranean Federation against enforced disappearances (FEMED) will hold the 'Second Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Families of Disappeared' with the theme 'The Convention against Enforced Disappearances in the Euro-Mediterranean countries'.
Buenos Aires, Argentina 20th - 26th of July. The UN Working Group against Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances will celebrate their second annual session in Buenos Aires, Argentina . According to non-official sources the UNWGEID meeting session will take place from the 23rd to the 26th of July
Featured articles
ICRC - Women and the Missing: the burden of those left behind . Interview [English, Spanish]
Guatemala - Desaparición Forzada en Guatemala: Desenterrando el olvido . Documentary [Spanish]
The EDIEC website is a reliable way of spreading information for and to those who work against enforced disappearances. If you would like use the EDIEC to make your publication, organisation or news known or would like to collaborate with us in the EDIEC please contact us at info@enforceddisappearances.org . Also feel free to link www.enforceddisappearances.org to your website. We will also link to your website.
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