[WSIS CS-Plenary] Shirin Ebadi is indeed available

Sun Oct 16 00:25:27 BST 2005

Dear Meryem

As President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), I can confirm IFLA's support for Dr Ebadi's nomination as a speaker at WSIS Tunis.

It is IFLA's view that civil society needs to articulate forcibly the paramount importance of respect for human rights - and particularly freedom of expression and of access to information, the need to respect and promote diversity in all of its forms and the urgency of redressing disadvantage.  We hope that all speakers will speak in concert as was done so effectively in WSIS Geneva.

With best wishes

Alex Byrne

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On
> Behalf Of Meryem Marzouki
> Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2005 7:39 PM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: hr-wsis at iris.sgdg.org
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Shirin Ebadi is indeed available
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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
> 
> Le jeudi, 13 oct 2005, à 10:49 Europe/Paris, west a écrit :
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> > Dear All,
> >
> > During the prepcom 3 , Ms. Ebadi was in Geneva and I met her and
> > actually requested her to be one of the main speakers, to be proposed
> > by our regional family. Unfortunately she is engaged in other
> > programmes and trips and she couldn't made it, I don't know did any of
> > you called her again or not or she have some changes in her plans. But
> > I could check again, anyway to my information she is not available.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Amir
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com>
> > To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
> > Cc: <marzouki at ras.eu.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 3:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] HR caucus proposes Shirin Ebadi to
> > speak at WSIS opening
> >
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> >> Great news!
> >> Congratulations on this wonderful achievement!
> >>
> >> Internet Society of Bulgaria surely supports this nomination!
> >>
> >> veni
> >>
> >> At 13:51 12-10-05  +0200, you wrote:
> >>> [Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire
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> >>> _______________________________________
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> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> Shirin Ebadi, 2003 peace Nobel prize winner, accepted the proposal
> >>> from WSIS CS Human Rights Caucus to propose her as a speaker for
> >>> Summit opening. For the HR caucus, having Shirin Ebadi speaking
> >>> would be the strongest symbol that the information society should be
> >>> built on human rights and social justice foundations.
> >>>
> >>> The HR caucus has asked Shirin Ebadi if she would be willing to
> >>> speak after having seen the first list of proposed speakers
> >>> circulated on Sept. 30. (with Adama Samassekou and Renata Bloem
> >>> proposed as possible speakers for opening).
> >>>
> >>> Apparently, we are now compelled to propose Shirin Ebadi directly to
> >>> ITU, since the "selection committee" has already sent its list.
> >>>
> >>> We would be very pleased however to include support from other
> >>> caucuses and organizations to Shirin Ebadi proposal. You certainly
> >>> remember that Shirin Ebadi was considered by CS as a whole to speak
> >>> at the opening ceremony of the Geneva summit, but at that time, she
> >>> was not available because she was receiving her prize in Oslo.
> >>>
> >>> If you want to support this nomination, please sent a message to me
> >>> (marzouki at ras.eu.org) as soon as possible. Caucuses or individual
> >>> organizations are most welcome.
> >>>
> >>> More info at: http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2003/index.html
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Meryem Marzouki
> >>> HR caucus co-chair
> >>>
> >>>
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