[WSIS CS-Plenary] Shirin Ebadi is indeed available

[maseger at t-online.de]

Hallo, Meryem! & Friends!

On behalf of my (European umbrella-)Organisation
I fully support the nomination of Mrs. Shirin Ebadi
(2003 peace Nobel prize winner) as a keynote speaker
for CS at the WSIS II Summit, TUNIS.

And I thank Renata for her decision to step aside.

MARIANNE
(Gender Caucus and European Caucus)

Marianne Seger
permament European NGO observer
at the U.N. New York and Geneva
for
EURAG European Federation of Older Persons
GRAZ/AUSTRIA
(www.eurag-europe.org)

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> On behalf of the small organization which I 
> represent, I wish to say that we most strongly 
> support the nomination of Ms. Ebadi as a keynote 
> speaker for CS at the Tunis Summit, especially 
> under the circumstances and regardless of how 
> much solidarity Adama Samassékou feels with CS 
> (sorry Tracey--but we just don't believe that 
> he's an appropriate CS representative).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lisa
> Union for Democratic Communications
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> >Dear Amir,
> >
> >This is to confirm that Ms. Ebadi has finally managed to make herself
> >available for the Tunis Summit, despite her busy agenda. We have got
> >the news very late, that is the reason why I posted only yesterday the
> >message and have sent yesterday also the letters to Mr Utsumi and to
> >Amb. Karklins.
> >The Human Rights caucus is in contact with her, through one of its
> >members. Her participation is entirely confirmed.
> >We would be happy to include the West-Asia Family in the list of CS
> >entities proposing Ms. Ebadi as a speaker for WSIS opening.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >Meryem
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> Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
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> Editor, Feminist Media Studies
> Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication
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> World Summit on the Information Society (http://www.udc.org)
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