[hr-education] Requests for information: 5 - 11 May 2003

Dear members,

Below is a compilation of requests for information sent to the Global
Human Rights Education listserv during the past week. At the bottom of
each request you will find an e-mail address, so that you can respond to
the request directly.

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CONTENTS

1. Seeking materials for HRE in military
2. Looking for scholarship
3. Requesting help with HRE course for Roma
4. Looking for input from HRE professionals (Nepal)

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1. SEEKING MATERIALS FOR HRE IN MILITARY

Dear listserv members,

I am a Development Projects Manager working for the British Council. In
Georgia we are trying to develop the training materials for military
personnel covering various human rights issues.

I would really appreciate your advise on relevant materials, publications,
articles or modules on teaching human rights to military personnel.

Thanks a lot in expectations.

Kind regards,

Kote Vardzelashvili
E-mail: Kote.Vardzelashvili@ge.britishcouncil.org

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2. LOOKING FOR SCHOLARSHIP

Bonjour,

Je viens par le présent mail soliciter des possibilités de financement
pour ma participation à l'Université d'Eté des Droits de l'Homme de
Genève.

Mon nom est Edouard André GOGAN et je suis de nationalité Béninoise. Je
suis un activiste des droits de l'homme, militant et membre fondateur de
Human Rights Group Task. J'ai travaillé sur plusieurs programmes en ce qui
concerne la promotion, la garantie et la défense des droits de l'homme.

Je vous demande le bénéfice de ce financement pour renforcer mes capacités
intélectuelles, de conception et d'action-recherche en matuère de
promotion, des garanties et de la défense des droits de l'homme.

Merci,

Edouard André Gogan
E-mail: goedouadre@yahoo.fr

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3. REQUESTING HELP WITH HRE COURSE FOR ROMA

Dear colleagues,

I am trying to put together a course teaching diplomatic skills and human
rights for the Roma representatives. I tried in many ways to get the
attention of diplomats, donors and some "important" human rights activists
on the subject. The only way it worked was by putting together a web site
with diplomatic blunders in which I included some extremely racist
"blunders" by politicians targeting Roma/travellers. The link to the site
is <http://textus.diplomacy.edu/blunders/links/index.asp>.

I know it can be considered trivial but it brought enough attention to get
the support of the organization I work for to partially fund a conference
on Human Rights and Diplomacy and the course I talked about. Before
joining the Human Rights field I was a manager in the private sector and I
think the aggressive way of creating willing customers for our "products"
is the only way to get the needed mass-support for human rights education.

For those of you interested by the course (I need as much help as I can
get) and the Conference or Roma, please do not hesitate and contact me. Of
course any comments on the blunders site are welcomed too.

Thank you,

Valeriu Nicolae
E-mail: valeriunicolae2000@yahoo.com

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4. LOOKING FOR INPUT FROM HRE PROFESSIONALS (NEPAL)

Hi Members,

This email comes from Nepal, where after the declaration of cease fire by
His Majesty's Government and the rebel force called Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist), the process of institutionalizing peace has started to
take shape.

When they declared a cease fire on 29 January, both sides said they were
willing to hold talks to end seven years of bloody insurgency. The Maoist
campaign for a communist republic to replace the existing democratic Nepal
has claimed nearly 8,000 lives since 1996. As such the peace process has
support from all the Nepalese people, and human rights organizations in
the country have played a very positive role. The issue I put before you
for your opinion is how the human rights educators can help the process.

In this situation, we will be interested to know how the human rights
people can help the peace process, and make efforts for effective
implementation of human rights and humanitarian considerations in it. Your
kind inputs will be shared with a big pool of human rights people in
Nepal. It is important to create a situation that the dialogue has
involvement of the nation as a whole, and that nobody is a loser.

Bipin Adhikari
Email: lawinc@wlink.com.np



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