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| Even monks can use a nice massage after a heavy lunch under a heavy tropical heat in the early afternoon before continuing on with the Courage Without Borders curriculum training at the beautiful Wat Damnak Siem Reap on this International Women's Day. For more info and photos, please visit www.civicus-cam.org. |
Showing posts with label Human rights issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human rights issues. Show all posts
Friday, March 09, 2012
Group Massage at Wat Damnak
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Speak Truth To Power performance at Meta House in Phnom Penh on 13 September 2011
Part 1 of 2
http://www.box.net/shared/loco73p32i7h166nggnh
Part 2 of 2
http://www.box.net/shared/2r87uek5mkbpf4ckmbob
Khmer Version (ជា ភាសា ខ្មែរ)
http://www.box.net/shared/nmx5im9x0ukc8gp9vnz5
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
CIVICUS Cambodia-RFK Center Speak Truth To Power Photo Exhibit
VIRTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OF COURAGE WITHOUT BORDERS (Speak Truth To Power) hosted by CIVICUS Cambodia, a partner of the RFK Center at Meta House. Free Admission. Please follow the virtual tour with the attached document of summary biography of these global heroes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqcXTxGICk
http://www.box.net/shared/k0m0qksnrc3hteuofz49
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
CIVICUS Cambodia-RFK Center's Speak Truth To Power (Courage Without Borders) Reception to open the month-long Photo Exhibition at Meta House Main Gallery
CIVICUS: Cambodian Center for Cambodian Civic Education hosted a very, very successful reception on Tuesday, 30 Aug. 2011, to present the full photo exhibit of the Speak Truth To Power (Courage Without Borders in Khmer) at Meta House main gallery. We had officials from the Ministries of Planning, Environment, Information, as well as members from the Senate, Constitutional Council, National Assembly; we had diplomats from the Embassy of Britain, Vietnam as well as heads of UN offices, e.g. UNOHCHR; heads of educational departments at Pannasastra University, World Education etc. joined us at the packed gallery reception. The Photography Exhibition is displayed during the full month of September and is free of charge to visitors. Khmer and English captions are available with each portrait and to take home for further reading.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Speak Truth To Power (“Courage without Borders”) Series in KI Media - Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala) “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights”
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Speak Truth To Power (“Courage without Borders”) Series in KI Media - Asma Jahangir & Hina Jilani (Pakistan), “Human Rights Strategies”
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, November 19, 2010
2010 RFK Human Rights Gala
RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights
Honors George Clooney with Ripple of Hope Award and Raises $3 Million to support Human Rights Defenders around the World at Star-studded Gala attended by Theary Seng
(Chelsea Piers, New York City, 17 Nov. 2010)
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| George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis, Kerry Kennedy (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010) |
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| Mary Kennedy Richardson, Dr. Doan Viet Hoat (Vietnam’s Sakharov), Bobby Kennedy Jr., Kerry Kennedy (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010) |
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| Dr. Doan Viet Hoat (the Sakharov of Vietnam), Harry Wu – both former prisoners of conscience and my dinner companion at the George Clooney gala (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010). |
More about these inspirational heroes at:
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| My inspirational dinner companion, Harry Wu who was imprisoned for 20 years in China (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010) |
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| George Clooney accepting the award at the $1,000 a seat fundraising gala to support human rights defenders around the world (NYC, 17 Nov. 2010) |
For more photos of celebrities (Jon Stewart, supermodel Liya Kebede, Jamie Foxx, Nicolas Kristof, Gail King, out-going and incoming NY Governors, etc.), see:
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Mu Sochoa Receives Award from the Eleanor Roosevelt Project for Leadership in Human Rights
Mu Sochua receives the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for leadership in human rights from Allida Black, Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Project at The George Washington University.
The Courage to Lead:
A Human Rights Summit for Women Leaders,
December 8-10, 2009.
A Human Rights Summit for Women Leaders,
December 8-10, 2009.
The Courage to Lead Summit brought together experienced and emerging human rights leaders from over thirty countries to share and build on their experiences and to promote mentoring and
collaboration among women who play a key role in promoting human rights worldwide.
The conference is organized by The Eleanor Roosevelt Project of the George Washington University and Vital Voices Global Partnership with support from the U.S. Department of State, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Labour Organization. The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) coordinated logistics for the event.
Morning sessions of the December 8-10 summit at the ILO are also open to the public.
US Mission Photo: Photo by Eric Bridiers
collaboration among women who play a key role in promoting human rights worldwide.
The conference is organized by The Eleanor Roosevelt Project of the George Washington University and Vital Voices Global Partnership with support from the U.S. Department of State, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Labour Organization. The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) coordinated logistics for the event.
Morning sessions of the December 8-10 summit at the ILO are also open to the public.
US Mission Photo: Photo by Eric Bridiers
Friday, November 20, 2009
Journalist seeks help
Originally Posted at South Asia Mail
I am a freelance journalist from the US, looking for human rights-related story ideas in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. I plan to spend 3-6 months (probably from January 2010 onward) traveling and reporting in these countries for US-based publications. I plan to work in print, still photography and video.
I am 30 years old, and have been working in journalism for about the past seven years. I've won a number of awards for my reporting, including the National Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon and the Weltner Hero Award for Courage in Journalism from the Georgia First Amendment Foundation. In the past year and a half, I've begun reporting from South Asia with trips to India, Pakistan and Nepal. I've lived in India for the past six months, and am back in the States planning my next trip.
Any leads, ideas, contacts, etc, etc, etc, welcome: joeldelliott@gmail.com
I am 30 years old, and have been working in journalism for about the past seven years. I've won a number of awards for my reporting, including the National Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism from the University of Oregon and the Weltner Hero Award for Courage in Journalism from the Georgia First Amendment Foundation. In the past year and a half, I've begun reporting from South Asia with trips to India, Pakistan and Nepal. I've lived in India for the past six months, and am back in the States planning my next trip.
Any leads, ideas, contacts, etc, etc, etc, welcome: joeldelliott@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
U.S. can lead field of human rights
March 4, 2009A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News (Guam)
The Burmese student who asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 17 at Tokyo University about U.S. policy toward Burma, put to the test President Obama's words in his inaugural address: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
The clenched fist reference is about all authoritarian regimes, including Burma, Cambodia and China, among others.
"We want to see a time when citizens of Burma and the Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi can live freely in their own country," answered Clinton. "Because we are concerned about the Burmese people, we are conducting a review of our policy," she said.
A day later, she told reporters in Jakarta, "Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," but "reaching out and trying to engage them has not influenced them either."
On Feb. 19 the Washington Post reported, "Shift Possible on Burma Policy." It published former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson's "Burma's Agony," about the world community's "failing to produce an effective, moral, organized response" to the Burmese generals who "defy world opinion."
On Feb. 20, Stanley Weiss of Business Executives for National Security argued in the International Herald Tribune's "Whom do sanctions hurt?" that "punitive sanctions" had "failed to moderate (Burma's) behavior"; the U.S. "must find a new way forward" and "should increase humanitarian assistance, channeled via the United Nations and NGOs."
On the same day, the Post editorialized in "Burma's Clenched First: Is it time for the United States to reach out to the junta?": "We hope that the coming policy review is truly realistic. ... The United States and other countries have been supplying food and fuel to North Korea for over a decade, with no appreciable change in that regime's horrific treatment of its people. Mr. Obama should conduct a policy review, by all means. But he must stick to the priorities implied in his inaugural address: If the United States is to extend a hand to Burma, that country's tyrants must first relax their grip on power."
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Hoagland's Feb. 22 "Obama vs. Clenched Fists" summarized Obama's "dominant foreign policy metaphor": "An American hand reaching out to an unclenching authoritarian fist, ... a simile of hope, as the president intends -- but also one of vulnerability, as Obama may discover sooner than he expects."
Clinton's remarks in Beijing that human rights issues "can't interfere" with discussions with China -- the biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt, says the Post -- on other important topics, brought human rights groups' response: This does not eliminate the gravity of Bejing's human rights abuses.
In "Not So Obvious: The secretary of state underestimates the power of her words," the Feb. 24 Post editorialized, "Ms. Clinton's statement ... will demoralize thousands of democracy advocates in China, and it will cause many others around the world to wonder about the character of the new U.S. administration."
Last Nov. 24, the Post editorialized in "The Freedom Challenge" that "the United States can regain and retain the stature to lead in the world, only if it is using its power on behalf of universal ideals."
It seems America's founding fathers' belief in the equality of all men, "with certain unalienable rights," and in the creation of government "to secure these rights," has found an echo in the Chinese human rights Charter 08 that "freedom, equality, and human rights are universal values of humankind and ... democracy and constitutional government are the fundamental framework for protecting these values."
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights warns, "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts," and "it is essential, if man is not to be compelled ... to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law."
It cites "the highest aspiration of the common people" for a "world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want."
The nonprofit Global Integrity tracks governance and corruption trends in the world. Its 2008 report reveals concerns about the transparency or the flow of currency between and among governments and the danger that "foreign governments" funnel money to ruling parties "in exchange for economic and commercial concessions."
In its 2008 rankings of corruption in 180 countries, Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand lead the list of "highly clean," followed by Singapore, fourth. Cambodia is 166th and Burma, next to the last. Somalia is the most "highly corrupt."
"Governance ... is as old as human civilization," says the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; it is a decision-making process and a process of implementing the decisions made.
ESCAP says "good governance" that includes rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, accountability, is an "ideal" -- a topic worth examining.
To "ensure sustainable human development," says ESCAP, "actions must be taken to work towards this ideal with the aim of making it a reality."
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. Write him at peangmeth@yahoo.com.
The clenched fist reference is about all authoritarian regimes, including Burma, Cambodia and China, among others.
"We want to see a time when citizens of Burma and the Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi can live freely in their own country," answered Clinton. "Because we are concerned about the Burmese people, we are conducting a review of our policy," she said.
A day later, she told reporters in Jakarta, "Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," but "reaching out and trying to engage them has not influenced them either."
On Feb. 19 the Washington Post reported, "Shift Possible on Burma Policy." It published former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson's "Burma's Agony," about the world community's "failing to produce an effective, moral, organized response" to the Burmese generals who "defy world opinion."
On Feb. 20, Stanley Weiss of Business Executives for National Security argued in the International Herald Tribune's "Whom do sanctions hurt?" that "punitive sanctions" had "failed to moderate (Burma's) behavior"; the U.S. "must find a new way forward" and "should increase humanitarian assistance, channeled via the United Nations and NGOs."
On the same day, the Post editorialized in "Burma's Clenched First: Is it time for the United States to reach out to the junta?": "We hope that the coming policy review is truly realistic. ... The United States and other countries have been supplying food and fuel to North Korea for over a decade, with no appreciable change in that regime's horrific treatment of its people. Mr. Obama should conduct a policy review, by all means. But he must stick to the priorities implied in his inaugural address: If the United States is to extend a hand to Burma, that country's tyrants must first relax their grip on power."
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Hoagland's Feb. 22 "Obama vs. Clenched Fists" summarized Obama's "dominant foreign policy metaphor": "An American hand reaching out to an unclenching authoritarian fist, ... a simile of hope, as the president intends -- but also one of vulnerability, as Obama may discover sooner than he expects."
Clinton's remarks in Beijing that human rights issues "can't interfere" with discussions with China -- the biggest foreign holder of U.S. debt, says the Post -- on other important topics, brought human rights groups' response: This does not eliminate the gravity of Bejing's human rights abuses.
In "Not So Obvious: The secretary of state underestimates the power of her words," the Feb. 24 Post editorialized, "Ms. Clinton's statement ... will demoralize thousands of democracy advocates in China, and it will cause many others around the world to wonder about the character of the new U.S. administration."
Last Nov. 24, the Post editorialized in "The Freedom Challenge" that "the United States can regain and retain the stature to lead in the world, only if it is using its power on behalf of universal ideals."
It seems America's founding fathers' belief in the equality of all men, "with certain unalienable rights," and in the creation of government "to secure these rights," has found an echo in the Chinese human rights Charter 08 that "freedom, equality, and human rights are universal values of humankind and ... democracy and constitutional government are the fundamental framework for protecting these values."
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights warns, "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts," and "it is essential, if man is not to be compelled ... to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law."
It cites "the highest aspiration of the common people" for a "world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want."
The nonprofit Global Integrity tracks governance and corruption trends in the world. Its 2008 report reveals concerns about the transparency or the flow of currency between and among governments and the danger that "foreign governments" funnel money to ruling parties "in exchange for economic and commercial concessions."
In its 2008 rankings of corruption in 180 countries, Denmark, Sweden and New Zealand lead the list of "highly clean," followed by Singapore, fourth. Cambodia is 166th and Burma, next to the last. Somalia is the most "highly corrupt."
"Governance ... is as old as human civilization," says the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; it is a decision-making process and a process of implementing the decisions made.
ESCAP says "good governance" that includes rule of law, transparency, responsiveness, accountability, is an "ideal" -- a topic worth examining.
To "ensure sustainable human development," says ESCAP, "actions must be taken to work towards this ideal with the aim of making it a reality."
A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam, where he taught political science for 13 years. Write him at peangmeth@yahoo.com.
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