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This is a spectacular proposal! I hope she
is available and willing. Thanks.
Saludos, Ginger
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:29
PM
Subject: [hr-wsis] Proposal - Speakers
list for the summit
Dear all,
Those of you who are subscribers to the CS
plenary list may have noted
that the proposed list of speakers for the
summit is currently under
hot discussion: not only the nomination process
is at stake (specially
since CS hasn't had enough time to propose
speakers, see a very
interesting note from Robert Guerra on this issue),
but the result
isn't really agreed by all, to say the least. I share these
many
concerns.
One speaker has been proposed by the caucus (Bruna
Faidutti, from the
Geneva office of the WFUNA, proposed by Jane and
Ginger), and her name
hasn't been selected.
Another speaker (myself)
has also been proposed by the caucus, but
apparently too late to be taken
into account in the list of proposed
speakers.
I would like to thank
Rikke, who proposed my name, and all of you who
supported this proposal.
However, I have no intention to speak at the
summit (not to mention the
fact that I would never be selected, being
confident that there would be
many objections, specially from the
Tunisian side, as well as from some
CSB members side (as attacks
directed towards the caucus have shown during
prepcom1 - Hammamet -
prepcom2 and prepcom3. Rikke and myself have
personnaly been the
targets of such unacceptable attacks).
I have
another idea, that I would like to share with you, so that it
could become
an HR caucus proposal if no objections are risen
(otherwise, it would be a
proposal from some members of our caucus).
Some of us are trying to check
with Shirin Ebadi, a woman, Iranian,
human rights defender, 2003 peace
Nobel prize winner, if she would be
available for the summit. We would
hopefully hear from her tomorrow.
Some of you may remember that Shirin has
been an option considered for
the Geneva summit by CS as a whole. But she
was unavailable at that
time for a very good reason, i.e. she was in Oslo
to receive her prize !
More info at: http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2003/index.html
Again,
provided that she could go to Tunis for the Summit, having
Shirin Ebadi
speaking (she would be proposed for the opening ceremony,
of course) would
be the strongest symbol of the importance of human
rights in the
information society.
FYI, current selection for the opening ceremony
is: Adama Samassekou
(this raised many concerns w.r.t. CS proposing the
president of phase 1
process, i.e. governement representative. this
selection is indeed
quite surprising, leaving aside Adama's many
qualities) and... Renata
Bloem (CONGO), which also appears quite a strange
choice.
Please let us know on this list if there are any objections to
Shirin
Ebadi proposal. In the mean time, we're trying to get her answer on
her
availability.
Best,
Meryem
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