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2011-01-18 | Campañas | Mapuche

Hrant Dink Commemorative Conference

Persecution of Indigenous Peoples, Unrepresented Nations and other Minorities in Turkey, Pakistan,

On the fourth anniversary of Hrant Dink's death, you are warmly invited to this conference on 18th January, (eve of Hrant Dink Day) between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords, Westminster, United Kingdom.


Content:

1 Tribute to Hrant Dink, and his world-wide significance (Eilian Williams) Turkey's targeting of the Kurds and 'Others' in Turkey (Desmond Fernandes, genocide scholar and Kasim Agpak - FED-BIR, the Kurdish Federation in the UK)

2 The 1881 Genocide of the Mapuche-Tehuelche in Argentinean Patagonia in the so-called "Conquest of the Desert" and their current persecution in Chile (Reynaldo Mariqueo, Charge d'Affaires on Foreign Relations to the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia)

3 Tribute to the late Salman Taseer, assassinated governor of of the Punjab. The treatment of Christians and other Minorities in Pakistan. The case of Asia Bibi-possible solutions (Wilson Chowdhry and Alex Choudhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association , Cllr Raza Anjum on his mission to help Asia Bibi)
Revd. Alwin Samuel of CLAAS (Centre for Legal Aid and Settlement)
Mushtaq Laharie ( Chairman of Third World Solidarity)
Pakistan's persecution and possible Genocide of the Baluchis (Baluchi speaker)

4 The Persecution of Minorities in Iraq (Saad Tokatly, Iraqi Christian representative) Autonomy and a Genocide Recognition in Iraq. A Solution to the suffering of Minorities? (Adnan Kochar of the Centre of Halabja- CHAK)

Short Discussion following each section

The Conference is sponsored by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff and Baroness Cox

Info from eilian@talktalk.net
07718982732

Fuente: Foro Escandinavo por los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas

Publicado: 2011-01-18 | Revisado: 2011-01-18 08:26:01 | Enlace de actual documento: http://www.mapuche.info/?pagina=2040