[WSIS CS-Plenary] suggestion for WSIS opening speakers
west Asia
westasiaregion at hotmail.com
Sat Oct 11 16:11:31 BST 2003
Dear CS Plenary Members
Thank you all for your emails reagrding the Iranian winner of the noble
peace prize, I received some very good proposals form many civil society
members for inviting Mrs.Ebadi (the recent winner of Noble prize for peace)
for the WSIS and CS plenary, I will ask her definitely and I also have a
better Idea, as you know for the inauguration speech of WSIS there are 3
speakers and one from CS, Louise told us to give them names to be informed
to ITU secretary general for final selection, I hereby strongly advice to
ask Mrs.Ebadi to be the CS speaker after Kofi Annan. It is very legitimate
as she is a human rights advocate and recent noble winner and a true and
active member of civil society especially in difficult conditions of Iran,
If you also agree and support, I will speak with her.
Louise: could you please advise me on the process?
Best regards
Amir Barmaki
Tehran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neshat Saeid" <saeidneshat at yahoo.com>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:22 PM
Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Noble peace prize
> Dear Amir and Dear Izumi,
>
> I share your feelings. For me, as an Iranian, it is
> really a great news !
>
> I am just sending you a very short text about her.
>
> Best
> Saeid N. Neshat
>
> =========================
> Dear friends,
>
> I am so happy that Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian woman won
> Nobel Peace Prize. She really deserves it. I just
> wanted to share my feelings with you.
>
> For your information, I just wrote the following lines
> for you.
>
> Human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the 2003 Nobel
> Peace Prize on Friday - 10 October 2003 - for her work
> fighting for democracy and the rights of women and
> children, the first woman and the first Iranian to
> receive the accolade.
>
> "By honoring Shirin, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has
> recognized the critical importance of human rights and
> the individuals who defend them around the world,"
> Amnesty International said.
>
> Born in 1937 in Hamdan in Iran - Shirin Ebadi finished
> her BA in law and started her carrier as a judge in
> 1965 and continued to be a judge until 1969. She has
> been the first woman to be a judge in history of
> Judiciary in Iran. In 1983, she became a lawyer and
> has published so many papers in different journals.
>
> Ms. Ebadi is well known for her work on children's and
> women's rights. She founded the Society for Protection
> of Children's Rights in 1993 and has published many
> books among them we can name the following titles:
> - Children's Rights, 1988
> - Medical Law, 1989
> - Small Children, 1990
> - Refugees' Rights, 1992
> - Tradition and Modernity in Iran's law, 1994
> - Comparative Children Rights, 1997
>
> Shirin Ebadi was honored by Human Rights Watch in 1997
> and has got the prize for human rights monitors. She
> won also a prize by Alzahra University for his book on
> "Children Rights".
>
> Ms. Shirin Ebadi was awarded the 2001 Rafto Prize in
> recognition of her sustained fight, over many years,
> for human rights and democracy in Iran. In particular,
> her efforts have focused on strengthening the legal
> status of women and children.
>
> Saeid N. Neshat (human rights activist - Iran)
>
>
> --- Izumi AIZU <izumi at anr.org> wrote:
>
> ---------------------------------
> That's a great news, Amir. Congratulations!!
>
> Is there any possibility for the Civil Society plenary
> to invite herto
> join WSIS under Civil society umbrella? I think that
> will addthe
> interest and significance significantly.
>
> izumi
>
>
> Web:http://www.funglode.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org[mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org]OnBehalf
> Of westasiaregion at hotmail.com
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 5:15 PM
> To: bureau at geneva2003.org; Planery WSIS
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Noble peace prize
> Importance: High
>
>
> Dear Civil Society members
>
> I am honored to inform you that Mrs.Shirin Ebadi
> form the society forprotection of children rights in
> Iran and the human rights activist and agood friend of
> us has been elected as NOBLE PEACE PRIZE winner
> of2003.
>
> I congratulate all human rights activists and
> member of civil societyin and out of Iran.
>
> Best regards
>
> Amir Bamaki
> Iran
> West Asia Region Focal Point
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amir A Angha
> To: aaangha at yahoo.com
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:25 PM
>
>
> Hello Everybody,
> Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist, won
> the 2003 NobelPeace Prize. please check the following
> links. have a wonderful day!
> AAA
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181428.stm
>
>
>
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3592563&fromEm
ail=true
>
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