En septiembre de 2009, tras años de campaña realizada por defensores y defensoras de los derechos humanos de las mujeres en todo el mundo, los 192 Estados miembros de la Asamblea General de la ONU acordaron por unanimidad la creación de una entidad de la ONU para mujeres y niñas.
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Dic.30.─ El proyecto "Estado: Crítico" de Médicos Sin Fronteras se centra ahora en las experiencias de aquellas personas que han sufrido directamente en su piel las consecuencias de los diferentes conflictos en Congo.
Se trata de personas heridas, tanto física como emocionalmente, que han querido hacer llegar su testimonio para que historias tan terribles como las suyas no se repitan nunca más.
Sign also the petition for the release of Nguyen Tien Trung, a human rights activist who was formerly a student in France
Hanoi, Dec.23.─ Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh [photo] has been charged with “subversion” by the prosecutor’s office, according to the Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien. He’s now facing the death penalty.
Le was initially accused of “propaganda against the state” but now faces a subversion charge along with pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung, who was arrested on 7 July, while the lawyer was arrested on 13 June.
Both are accused of having links with the banned Democratic Party of Vietnam, producing propaganda documents against the regime and incitement to subversion on the Internet. No date has yet been announced for their trial but it could be held early next year.
Reporters Without Borders condemned the charges against Le Cong Dinh and Nguyen Tien Trung, the object of which is to create the illusion of a genuine international conspiracy against the Hanoi government, when the two men have done nothing but express their opinion. “We call for their immediate and unconditional release”, said the organisation.
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Help the children who are victims of war at the Kim Phuc Foundation International [find the link at the end of this story]Years ago in Gander, Newfoundland, a young Vietnamese woman disembarked from a plane refuelling from Moscow to Cuba and asked for asylum in Canada. Her name is Kim Phuc and she was the girl on the famous 1972 photograph that brought the world's attention to the horrors of the Vietnam war.
If there was one photograph that captured the horrific nature of all wars, one photograph that tore at our collective conscience, it was the picture of a nine year old girl, running naked down a road, screaming in agony from the jellied gasoline coating her body and burning through skin and muscle down to the bone. According the the eyewitness account of Wolfgang P. May, Advisor of a South Vietnamese battallion in Trung Lap, her village, a few miles NW of Saigon, was bombed with napalm on the 8th of July 1972, and the little girl was among the victims. It would take 14 years and 17 operations to save her life and restore her appearance. And when she finally felt well enough to put it behind her, that very photograph would make her a victim, all over again.
"Napalm is the worst pain that can ever be imagined. It is to feel that you are burning under your skin. I would faint each time that my nurses submerged my body in the healing sollution and started to cut away the dead skin", expalins Kim.
Kim's Story is both a universal and a deeply personal story. It parallells the fate of Vietnam itself. Both Kim's suffering, and her courageous recovery mirrors the plight of a whole people during and after the war. It is also the story of how one little girl's tragedy would be used by all sides. Peace activists, journalists from all over the world, and Vietnamese government officials saw Kim as a symbol to be used, not a person. Therefore, she has tried over the years to tell her story just once as a testimony, and then, she wanted to move on. That wasn't possible.
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Aug. 11.- Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor, but later commuted to 18 months of house arrest. Suu Kyi was charged with violating the terms of her previous house arrest by harboring an American man who swam to her house uninvited. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) and the U.S. Campaign for Burma (USCB), as well as government leaders around the world, have strongly condemned the verdict. AAPP and USCB are calling on the United States and the United Kingdom to press the UN Security Council to pass an arms embargo on Burma, and to initiate a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity in the country. USCB has also started an online petition for the arms embargo.
To read the statement by AAPP, go to: www.aappb.org/AAPP_media_statement_DASSK_verdict.pdf
To sign the USCB online petition, go to: http://uscampaignforburma.org/aungsansuukyiguilty
