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28.11.2005 Civil Society organisations had earlier written to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan expressing serious concern about the suitability of Tunisia as a host country for the WSIS because of its poor huiman rights record. They have now asked him, again, to take follow up measures after serious attacks on human rights and the right to freedom of expression at the summit.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Information & media] [Freedom of expression] [ICT] [United Nations]
Migranti dopo uno sbarco - da UNHCR/E.Dagnino
25.11.2005 I prossimi 27 e 28 novembre i leader di 35 paesi europei e della riva sud del Mediterraneo si incontreranno a Barcellona, in occasione del decimo anniversario del lancio del Processo di Barcellona, un ampio quadro di rapporti politici, economici e sociali fra i 25 paesi membri dell'Unione Europea e 10 partner mediterranei. In quest'occasione i leader dei 35 paesi dovrebbero approvare un piano d'azione destinato a fornire le basi della cooperazione euro-mediterranea per i prossimi cinque anni. L'Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati (UNHCR) accoglie con soddisfazione questo importante e ambizioso processo, ma chiede di porre maggior attenzione alla cooperazione in materia di spostamenti di popolazione. "In questo settore č necessario lavorare ancora molto, alla luce del dramma delle centinaia di persone che ogni anno perdono la vita in mare nel tentativo di raggiungere l'Europa con mezzi irregolari".
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From: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Migration] [Refugees] [Human rights]
Image: Migranti dopo uno sbarco - da UNHCR/E.Dagnino
Razor's Edge
25.11.2005 An estimated three million girls in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East undergo genital mutilation every year, but the practice could be eliminated within a generation, says the UN Children's Fund.
* Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation, OneWorld TV
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From: United Nations Children's Fund
Related topics/regions: [Middle East] [Africa] [Children] [Gender]
Image: Razor's Edge
Woman in South Darfur Displaced by Violence
22.11.2005 The U.S. should urge the U.N. to provide a stronger mandate and larger force to protect the vulnerable in Darfur, Sudan, said Africa Action Monday. The U.S. is in a strong position to initiate an intervention and Americans want it, the group said, citing the thousands of postcards U.S. citizens have sent to the White House calling for action.
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From: Africa Action
Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [United States] [Geopolitics] [Conflict] [United Nations]
Image: Woman in South Darfur Displaced by Violence © Refugees International
21.11.2005 The legitimacy of the World Summit On the Information Society had been put in question by the interference of the Tunisian authorities, and no UN-sponsored summit should ever again be held under such oppressive conditions, said a leading right group.
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From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Freedom of expression] [United Nations]
21.11.2005 E' cominciato con atti di repressione verso i giornalisti e censura di siti internet da parte del governo tunisino e si č concluso senza alcun impegno finanziario dei Paesi ricchi per sostenere il "Fondo di solidarietą digitale" per ridurre il "digital gap", il divario di accesso ad internet tra Nord e il Sud del pianeta.
Nel mezzo, il “Summit mondiale della societą dell'informazione” (WSIS) dell'Onu, che si č tenuto a Tunisi dal 16 al 18 novembre, ha registrato un compromesso sulla gestione di internet, la rinuncia dell'Onu a farsi carico della rete ed una dichiarazione formale che pur sottolineando l'importanza della libertą d'espressione e della libera circolazione dell'informazione, non prevede sanzioni verso quei Paesi che continuano ad ignorarle.
di Giorgio Beretta
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From: Unimondo
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Human rights] [Information & media] [Freedom of expression] [Activism]
20.11.2005 On the afternoon of Friday, November 18, 2005, one of three stakeholders taking part in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) drew a line in the sand. Civil society (CS) representatives from all continents lined up on a panel to deliver a stark closing statement. At the same time, International Telecommunications Union UN-o-crats drew conclusions of their own a couple of hundred meters away in the plenary room.
APC WSIS BLOG Article
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Freedom of expression] [ICT] [Internet] [Knowledge]
19.11.2005 L'eco delle iniziative della dissidenza tunisina č entrata anche al Vertice mondiale sulla societą dell'informazione (WSIS). Mentre si teneva una manifestazione promossa dal premio Nobel per la pace 2003, Shirin Ebadi, al centro di Tunisi in un edificio dove dal 18 di Ottobre otto persone sono in sciopero della fame, nella sala "La Goulette" nella sede del vertice ufficiale si teneva un forum sulle riforme delle istituzioni internazionali organizzato da Ubuntu e Cris dove diversi sono stati gli interventi sul tema. Al Vertice, che si č chiuso oggi, nessun impegno concreto č stato perņ assunto dai Paesi ricchi, che hanno rifiutato di destinare risorse al Fondo per la solidarietą digitale lanciato proprio a Ginevra, con l’obiettivo di ridurre la distanza tra il Nord e il Sud del pianeta in questo settore.
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From: MISNA , CRIS Italia
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Human rights] [Freedom of expression] [Internet] [Democracy]
18.11.2005 Prvi dan sam bila očajna tražeći žene po prostoru uz toliko nadmoćnu prisutnost muškaraca, posebno onih uniformiranih i naoružanih. No, kad sam malo pogledala uokolo, vidjela sam (osim participanata) pretežno žene u ružičastom koje rade kao čistačice i hodaju okolo vukući vreće sa smećem.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Gender] [ICT] [Internet]
Taurai Maduna
18.11.2005 “Jam shumė i ēuditur prej varieteteve tė ICTs qė pėrdoren kėtu. Kam parė lidhjet qė kanė njerėzit me celularin Nokia, me tė cilin bėjnė foto tė ndryshme” thotė Taurai Maduna teksa pi pijen e tij nė hollin e ekspozimeve tė konferencės WISIS nė veri tė Tunizis.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [ICT]
Image: Taurai Maduna
18.11.2005 "I guess, once again, the “All” in ICTs for all seems to be selective in its application", writes Jac sm Kee, the regular contributor to the APC WSIS blog.
Read the full article at APC WSIS Blog.
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Gender] [ICT] [Internet]
18.11.2005 Swiss Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger denies a rupture with Tunisia over his government's controversial stand on the host government's treatment of journalists and human rights activists before the UN World Summit on the Information Society.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Switzerland] [Tunisia] [Freedom of expression]
Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
18.11.2005 "Zadivljen sam raznim nacinima upotrebe ICT-a, koji su ovde prezentovani. Video sam Nokijin stand prepun ljudi koji su se slikali mobilnim telefonima i nosili bedzeve sa tim slikama", culo se kako je rekao Taurai Maduna dok je pijuckao pice u holu sale u kojoj se odrzava WSIS, u severnom Tunisu.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia]
Image: Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
18.11.2005 The African Union will tarnish its credibility and condone the Sudanese government’s complicity in crimes against humanity if it allows Khartoum to host the organisation's summit in January, a leading rights group has told heads of state.
* More trouble at another Summit: Amnesty International delegates prevented from meeting leading Tunisian human rights group; Tunisia slated over net controls
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Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Africa] [Geopolitics]
Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
18.11.2005 APC vi go pretstavuva Taurai Maduna, informaticar od nevladina organizacija od Zimbabve, Kubatana i ucesnik na WSIS.
Maduna e ucesnik na rabotilnicata koja ja organizira HIVOS, nerecena "Izrazuvanje pod reprasija", koja se odrza deneska. Kako sto izjavuva, nego ne go interesira sto imaat da kazat vladite prisutni na WSIS, koi idat i nametnuivaat uslovi za koi ne moza da se pregovara, tuku go interesiraat ucesnicite od gragjanskite organizascii od cel svet i razmenata na idei.
APC WSIS Blog article.
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Civil rights] [Freedom of expression] [ICT] [Internet]
Image: Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
18.11.2005 Taurai Maduna is an information officer with the Zimbabwean NGO online community Kubatana, and we met up with him in the middle of the exposition centre of the Kram, Tunis. APC's Karel Novotny reports from Tunis.
APC WSIS Blog article.
Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Civil rights] [Freedom of expression] [ICT] [Internet]
Image: Taurai Maduna, Kubatana information officer
18.11.2005 Digital Opportunity Channel familiarisation and community engagement programme was hosted at the BCO Souk in the WSIS II, Tunis reports Atanu Garai from Tunis.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia]
18.11.2005 Latha Gauri, a video reporter from Kothlapur village, Andhra Pradesh India, was the second grassroots knowledge worker to take the voices and concerns of the grassroots communities across the world, to the international policy platform at WSIS II at Tunis on November 17, 2005.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia]
18.11.2005 A High-Level Round Table on “Shaping the Future through Knowledge”, the second of three events organised by UNESCO at the Tunis meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, is taking place today.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia]
18.11.2005 The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo, launched the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, an alliance of national and regional assemblies, bilateral and multilateral agencies, international organisations, media, corporations and civil society.
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Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [ICT] [Governance]
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