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H.E. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Country: Kingdom of Bahrain
President of the sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly
H.E. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa was elected President of the sixty-
first session of the General Assembly on 8 June 2006. At the time, she
was serving as Legal Adviser to the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Sheikha Haya brings to the post a long and distinguished legal career at
both the national and international levels, spanning three decades. One
of the first two women to practise law in her country, she has held many
senior positions with leading legal organizations of the world including the
International Bar Association, where from 1997 to 1999 she was vice-
chairwoman of the arbitration and dispute resolution committee, the first
woman from the Middle East to serve in this capacity. Her pioneering role
in the legal sphere has been coupled more recently with prestigious
diplomatic assignments as her country's Ambassador to France, from
2000 to 2004, and as non-resident Ambassador to Belgium, Switzerland
and Spain. Over the same period she was the Kingdom's permanent representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). She also was a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration Centre Consultative Committee and became Bahrain's representative on the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, an appointment that she still holds today.
A champion of women's rights, particularly in the legal sphere, Sheikha Haya has been an active participant in the movement to elevate the position of women in Bahrain before the Islamic sharia courts and is an advocate of a progressive interpretation of Islamic texts as they apply to women. She was a vice-president of the Bahrain Bar Society as well as a member of the Supreme Council of Culture, Art and Literature, and is currently a member of her country's Child Development Society and the Arab Women's Legal Network.
Sheikha Haya, who is trilingual in Arabic, English and French,has presented numerous papers at legal conferences across the United States, Europe and Asia, on diplomacy, international arbitration, dispute resolution and the status of women in the Middle East. She holds an LLB from the University of Kuwait and studied international public law at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds postgraduate degrees in civil private law from Alexandria University and in comparative law from Ain Shams University in Egypt. She is only the third woman to serve as President of the United Nations General Assembly, and the first since the twenty-fourth session in 1969.
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Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury Country: Bangladesh
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is the Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States of the
United Nations since March 2002.
A career diplomat, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United
Nations in New York from 1996 to 2001. He also served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Chile, Nicaragua,
Peru, Venezuela and as Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the Bahamas and Guyana.
Ambassador Chowdhury served as President of the United Nations Security Council for two terms in 2000 and 2001 and President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2000. He also chaired the Administrative
and Budgetary Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in 1997-1998.
He spearheaded a pioneering initiative at the United Nations on culture of peace which resulted in the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 of the landmark “Programme of Action on a Culture
of Peace”. He also initiated the declaration by the United Nations General Assembly of the “International
Decade for Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010)”.
Ambassador Chowdhury is the recipient of the U Thant Peace Award and the UNESCO Gandhi Gold Medal for Culture of Peace. In March 2003, the Soka University of Tokyo, Japan, conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate for his work on women’s issues, child rights and culture of peace as well as for the strengthening of the United Nations. His initiative in March 2000 as the President of the Security Council led to the adoption of the groundbreaking UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on the role of women in peace and security. In 2001-02, he was Distinguished Adjunct Professor, School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati (Swami J)
Swami Jnaneshvara was initiated in meditation by Swami Rama in 1986, and as a monk of the Shankaracharya lineage in 1993.
Initiation as dandi (staff-bearing) swami, a most honorific initiation of the monastic order, was given in 1999.
His previous education includes a BS in Management from Florida State University and an MA in Consciousness, with emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy
University, in California.
All peoples, philosophies, religions, and psychologies are embraced as emerging from the same, one Absolute Reality, called by many names, including God.
Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati is inspired by the goal of providing the ancient wisdom and practices in what his own teacher has called "the simplest manner possible." He teaches the
most practical aspects of Meditation, Yoga, Vedanta, and internal Tantra. People are never
asked to be followers, to change their culture, or to convert from their religion, but are
encouraged to find the teacher within, the finest guide to spiritual realization.
In accordance with his Himalayan meditation tradition, no rituals are performed or promoted, and the practices of contemplation and meditation are internal, and non-sectarian. His renunciation as a swami is one of setting aside exclusive religious identity so as to embrace the whole. Swami Jnaneshvara lives and teaches in the USA, and is also on the faculty of Swami Rama Ashram, an affiliate of Swami Rama University in Dehradun and Rishikesh, India, which is at the foothills of the Himalayas. His writings have an extensive internet presence through his website, www.SwamiJ.com.
DVD on Human Rights as a route to peace, participants:
Participants are presented in the order of the rights they represent, being person presenting right # 1 first and so on. Click on photo for bio
ARTICULO # 26 Sebastian Coana, GAP CHINA and Mozambique
Sebastião Carlos Coana; young African contemporary painter of 17 years old from Maputo-Mozambique when he contact us for the first time, a couple of years ago.
He was a volunteer in Mozambican Association for Family Development. It’s got a program that has been implemented to give young people information about sexual health in the main .I work as a volunteer /activist to reduce STDs /HIV/AIDS among young people. He is in school peer educator.
He became a member of Friends of the United Nations and funded the GAP ( GROUP OF ACTION TOWARD PEACE) Mozambique. He also extended the activities and created 8 other GAP in Africa as wel as GAP CHINA in Beijing where he studies ART at this moment.
His activities are feature in the pages GAP MOZAMBIQUE , GAP CHINA and INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE in this web site.
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Alicia Quaini Country : USA
Friends of the UNITED NATIONS World Wide Special Representative
Alicia Quaini has a BA in Education and a master in Music; is a specialized teacher,
composer and performer. She made an international career as an artist.
She was director of the School of development trough arts in Buenos Aires, and
funded the School of Integrated arts in Mexico.
Specialized in Teaching and Learning Techniques,she taught to teachers, education
authorities, school directors, trough the Ministry of Education in Argentina, and the
University of Baja California in Mexico.
Quaini worked with Kids from the street ( gamines) in Bogota, Colombia, teaching art.
Also in Baja, she work to have murals painted by gan members.
Also developed a program for rehabilitation in prisons, that was applied in the State
of Baja California, in Mexico, in the Penitenciaria de Baja California in Tijuana, the
Carcel # 8 in the same city, and the official prisons of Mexicali and Ensenada .
In the last one she promoted the implementation of the detox (drug cleaning) program.
She was the President of Youth for Human Rights International for Florida, The Caribbean and Latin-America, until she resigned and then became Special Representative for Friends of the United Nations.
As part of the Friends of the United Nations she created the Groups of Actions toward Peace, GAP, funded in different countries of the world. They participated in the celebrations of United Nations’ International day of Peace the amount of 160 million people participating in different activities, as the minute
of silence, prayers, meditation, art activities, performances, essays and human rights and peace seminars and round tables.
She leads the activities of the GAP world wide.
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Lawyer and Human Rights Activist
Allen Bonner
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Johanna Pontoriero
GAP MIAMI
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Sebastian Coana
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W. Allen Bonner is a second-generation public defender and human rights advocate.
Having grown up in Decatur, Georgia, Mr. Bonner graduated salutatorian from Decatur High
School and was the only student in his class to go on to the Ivy League. He was an
accomplished undergraduate at Brown University and Oxford University, where he double-
majored in Honors Philosophy and African History. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from
Brown in 2002 and later attended the Columbia University School of Law in 2003. There he
was a leader in the public interest community and was awarded the Jacob Berger Fellowship
for his dedicated work against the death penalty in 2005. Mr. Bonner was also named as a
Charles Evans Hughes Fellow for Human Rights and twice as a Stone Scholar for his high
academic achievements. He studied under Louis Henkin, Professor of Human Rights and
Constitutional Law, as both a student and teaching assistant during his time at Columbia.
Mr. Bonner’s dedication to advancing the rights of indigents is illustrated by his expansive public service. As a law student, he interned variously at the Human Rights Watch, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Bronx Defenders, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, and the California Appellate Project. Mr. Bonner also organized dozens of prison litigation and death penalty internships as the President of the Criminal Justice Action Network and was a board member for the Human Rights Law Review. His proudest law school accomplishment is his work for the Jailhouse Lawyers Manual, a guide to pro se criminal defense, for which he was a member of the editorial board.
Mr. Bonner is presently an Assistant Public Defender in Miami, Florida, where he exclusively represents poor people accused of crimes. His father, James C. Bonner, Jr., is Director of the Appellate Division for the Georgia Public Defender Standards Counsel in Atlanta, Georgia.
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MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL MANOS BLANCAS POR LA LIBERTAD.
Venezuela.
Conformado por un grupo de estudiantes principalmente universitarios,
este movimiento surge cuando finalmente los jóvenes se dieron cuenta del
papel que debían jugar dentro de una coyuntura en su país. Un grupo de
estudiantes que empezó a hacer historia frente a la violación de sus
derechos fundamentales por no comulgar con las posturas del gobierno.
Los estudiantes venezolanos despertaron ante una decisión del Ejecutivo
venezolano de no renovar la concesión radioeléctrica a un canal de
televisión, por ser una medida discriminatoria y además evidencia de que
en Venezuela la ley no se aplica en forma igualitaria. Pero este fue solo el
comienzo, pues en el camino se tropezaron con una serie de violaciones a
sus derechos y el maltrato de las autoridades nacionales.
Los estudiantes han dicho: "Estamos en contra de un sistema de
pensamiento único. Abogamos por la pluralidad, la libertad y la
democracia. Buscamos proponer y no ser un pudo haber sido o un lástima que fue, queremos ser un "ES" y un "SERÁ". Además han ratificado que todos los ciudadanos deben ser tratados del mismo modo, que todos los ciudadanos tienen derecho a dirigirse a las autoridades competentes y a ser tratados en la misma forma independientemente de su tendencia política.
"Somos demócratas y no creemos en la hegemonía ni de las minorías ni de
las mayorías. BASTA DE DISCRIMINACIÓN!"
John Suárez is a human rights activist. He has spoken on three occasions before the United Nations Human Rights Commission and once before the UN Human Rights Council in 2006. On July 26, 2003 The Miami Herald published his opinion piece placing the July 26, 1953 Moncada Barracks attack into historical context titling it: “Nonviolent activists writing Castro's final chapter.” El Nuevo Herald published a Spanish translation on August 5. Highlighting the cases of the 75 pro-democracy Cuban activists and independent journalists arrested March 2003, John testified before the Interamerican Human Rights Commission of the OAS (Organization of American States) and presented a report listing the details of cases of Cuban government repression in 2002 and 2003.
As a past coordinator of the Free Cuba Foundation he organized conferences, lectured on university campuses, led demonstrations, and campaigned on behalf of Cuban prisoners of conscience. He was also published, interviewed or cited in The Beacon, The Miami Herald, The Sun Sentinel, Florida Today, Associated Press, il Roma, Lo Stato, Basler Zeitung and appeared on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes as well as the Alan Colmes Radio Show. He has collaborated in publishing the magazine yara! John Suárez is a graduate of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria.
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