Archivo etiqueta «Derechos Humanos»
By Mark Schneider, senior vice president at the International Crisis Group. He was principal deputy assistant secretary of state for human rights in the Carter administration and assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Clinton administration. He was director of the Peace Corps from 1999-2001 (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 18/08/11):
Now that Congress is returning from the August recess with plans to vote on pending free-trade agreements, partisan bickering must not be allowed to kill the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Colombia of President Juan Manuel Santos is a … Seguir leyendo
By Ryan Kaminski, research associate for the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 17/08/11):
As Syria continues to burn under leader Bashar Assad’s Hama 2.0 operation, all hope seems fixed solely on the United Nations Security Council. However, far from New York, the world’s newest human rights organization is in a position to take the next pivotal move to defuse the crisis if it so chooses.
Receiving little attention in June, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), formerly known as the Organization of the Islamic … Seguir leyendo
By Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission) (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/08/11):
The case of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolize the rampant and often violent corruption plaguing the Russian state. Sergei, a 37-year-old tax lawyer, husband and father working for an American firm in Moscow, blew the whistle on the largest known tax fraud in Russian history. For that he was arrested in 2008 by those he accused, and he was imprisoned … Seguir leyendo
By Mark D. Wallace, president of United Against Nuclear Iran. He served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, representative for U.N. management and reform (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 06/07/11):
Why not Iran?
Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown repressive regimes. Citizens in Syria, Yemen and other Middle East countries are demanding change. Yet in Iran, where a wave of 2009 demonstrations helped spark the movements we are now witnessing elsewhere in the Middle East, the populace is strangely silent.
What accounts for the relative quiet in Iran? The answer, at least in part, is that one of the great human … Seguir leyendo
Por Xulio Ríos, director del Observatorio de la Política China (EL PAÍS, 08/06/11):
Al presidente Hu Jintao le gustaría ser recordado por su compromiso con la armonía como principal seña de identidad de su mandato. La sociedad armoniosa que predica, formulada como objetivo a materializar en 2020, se basa, según rezan los documentos oficiales del Partido Comunista de China (PCCh), en la democracia y el Estado de derecho, la justicia, la estabilidad, la honestidad y la solidaridad y el respeto al medio ambiente. Dicha formulación ha sido presentada como una muestra del esfuerzo por perseverar en la modernización del … Seguir leyendo
By Benjamin Weinthal, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Mark Dubowitz, executive director and head of the Iran Human Rights Project (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 28/05/11):
On May 28, 1961, British lawyer Peter Benenson penned a passionate article in the London Observer, drawing attention to the plight of two Portuguese students who had delivered a toast calling for democratic reform in their country and were promptly carted off to prison for defying dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Benenson wrote in that article: “Open your newspaper any day of the week, and you will find a … Seguir leyendo
By Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher at New York-based Human Rights Watch (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 12/05/11):
In the midst of China’s worst spike in official repression in more than a decade, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke out April 14 about the need for his government to “encourage people to speak truthfully.” The irony of Mr. Wen’s words would not be lost on the globally recognized activist-artist Ai Weiwei, just one of dozens of artists, lawyers, civil society activists and bloggers detained, arrested or missing since mid-February. The crackdown, sparked by official fears of a possible Middle Eastern-style “jasmine revolution” … Seguir leyendo
By Kate Krauss, executive director of the AIDS Policy Project who has organized campaigns for the release of detained health rights activists in China (THE WASHINGTON POST, 26/04/11):
Just before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, a group of young Chinese activists was evacuated to the United States for safety reasons. Chinese officials were harassing and detaining people they thought might embarrass them during the Olympics. Three of the activists flew to Philadelphia that summer and slept on mattresses on my dining room floor.
Ironically, they brought Olympic souvenir chopsticks as gifts. “We’re not against the Olympics; they are a … Seguir leyendo
By Wei Jingsheng, a leader of the Chinese democracy movement who spent 15 years in prison for authoring The Fifth Modernization, which he posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing. He lives in exile in the United States (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/04/11):
On April 3, the Chinese Communist authorities secretly detained the well-known artist Ai Weiwei. Neither his family nor friends were notified of what happened to him, why he was seized or where he was. Like everyone else, they have now learned from the Xinhua News Agency that he is under investigation for “economic crimes.”
This … Seguir leyendo
By Salman Rushdie, the author, most recently, of Luka and the Fire of Life and the chairman of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/04/11):
The great Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern, a former power station, is a notoriously difficult space for an artist to fill with authority. Its immensity can dwarf the imaginations of all but a select tribe of modern artists who understand the mysteries of scale, of how to say something interesting when you also have to say something really big. Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider once stood menacingly in … Seguir leyendo
By Renata Capella Soler, researcher specialising in human rights with extensive experience in the Middle East. She holds a M.A. in International Relations and a LL.M. in International Law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 12/04/11):
Theme: The establishment of a human rights monitoring mechanism in the Western Sahara, preferably through an expansion of MINURSO’s mandate, would change the underlying dynamics of the conflict and allow for progress in the negotiation process.
Summary: The focus on human rights in the Western Sahara has increased the visibility of the conflict and the pressure … Seguir leyendo
By Nicholas Bequelin, senior researcher on Asia at Human Rights Watch (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/04/11):
It has taken the arrest of Ai Weiwei, one of China’s best-known contemporary artists and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, for the world to take notice that Beijing is in the midst of the largest crackdown on dissent in over a decade — one that differs ominously in scope, tactics and aims from previous campaigns.
The authorities are clearly casting a wider net over all advocates of “global values”— the code word in China for human rights, the rule of law … Seguir leyendo
By Steve Swerdlow, the Uzbekistan researcher for Human Rights Watch (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/04/11):
I should be writing this from Tashkent, where for 15 years Human Rights Watch has maintained a field office. Until last month.
Last Christmas Eve, the Uzbek government denied me accreditation to work in the country, and now it has forced us to close our office there, the first time in Human Rights Watch’s 33-years of operation that a government has shut down one of our offices.
The government hasn’t cited any official grounds, but the matter seems to have been decided long ago. … Seguir leyendo
By Geng He, the wife of a human rights lawyer missing in China (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/03/11):
With the world’s attention on the uprisings in the Middle East, repressive regimes elsewhere are taking the opportunity to tighten their grip on power. In China, human rights activists have been disappearing since a call went out last month for a Tunisian-style “Jasmine Revolution.” I know what their families are going through. Almost a year ago, the Chinese government seized my husband and since then, we have had no news of him. I don’t know where he is, or even … Seguir leyendo
Par Abbas Bakhtiari, musicien iranien et directeur du centre culturel Pouya, Paris (LE MONDE, 23/03/11):
La “Maison du cinéma” iranien comprend 5 000 cinéastes, 29 classes d’école de cinéma, des acteurs, des administrateurs, une association de scénaristes, une association de travailleurs des industries techniques. Depuis deux ans, la crise du cinéma iranien est relatée dans la presse. Cette crise n’est pas propre à l’Iran. A l’instar d’autres pays similaires, lorsque la presse est étouffée, soit les cinéastes expriment leur désaccord, soit ils arrêtent de produire et gardent le silence.
La politique du régime est de maîtriser et surveiller tous … Seguir leyendo