From kmills@yorku.ca Fri May 3 13:08:30 1996 Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:10:08 -0400 To: forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, revs@csf.colorado.edu, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, UNReform@chatsubo.com From: kmills@yorku.ca (Kurt Mills) Subject: New E-List: ACUNS-IO ACUNS and the IO Section of ISA are pleased to announce the establishment of the ACUNS-IO Listserv The Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS) and the International Organization Section of the International Studies Association (IO-ISA) are co-sponsoring an email listserv for their members and others interested in the discussion of issues related to international organization studies and the United Nations system. This unmoderated listserv will be administered by ACUNS and Brown University, and will be accessible to ACUNS members, IO Section members, and the general public. Initially, the discussion will be "free-form." As user interest and the listserv itself evolves, the sponsors will periodi-cally solicit and post documents and/or ab-stracted "thought pieces" to channel discussion of topical issues and events. Melissa Phillips (ACUNS) and Kurt Mills (York University-IO Section member) will serve as the list's administrators. The listserv's technical point of contact is Gregory Kazarian (Brown University).In addition to the timely dissemination of information to ACUNS and IO Section sub-scribers, it is hoped that this forum will serve as a useful platform through which: * an informed debate is engaged involving social scientists, legal scholars, practitioners, and others regarding the UN system, international organization studies, and the future of global governance; and * multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary per-spectives are brought to bear in discussion of these issues to facilitate greater understanding. The only technical requirement to partici-pate in this listserv is access to an email system. As always, we welcome suggestions and comments from our respective memberships as to the content and direction of this listserv. To Subscribe: 1. Send an email message to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu 2. In the body of the message, type: "subscribe ACUNS-IO" (without the quotes) followed by your full name 3. Voila! You will receive a welcome message confirming your subscription, instructions on how to post messages, and copies of all postings to the group, including your own postings. For further information: ACUNS Home Page * http://www.brown.edu/Departments/ACUNS IONet * http://csf.Colorado.EDU/isa/sections/io/ Please share this information with interested colleagues and students. From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Sat May 4 05:00:03 1996 Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 05:00:01 -0600 (MDT) From: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: REVS@csf.Colorado.EDU Subject: Monthly Reminder Dear REVS members, This is an occasional reminder of some of the listserv commands at your disposal. The commands have been capitalized for emphasis. These commands should be sent to LISTSERV@csf.colorado.edu If you are going to be away and want to postpone messages from REVS send a message to LISTSERV@csf and in the message type: SET REVS MAIL POSTPONE <== postpones one's mail SET REVS MAIL ACK <== unpostpone one's mail To unsubscribe from REVS, please mail LISTSERV the message UNSUB REVS <== two word command Most common mistakes: 1. Punctuation marks near the two words E.g., "unsub revs" rather than unsub revs >unsub revs rather than unsub revs unsub revs. rather than unsub revs unsub rather than unsub revs 2. Trying to unsubscribe from an (internet) .edu address when your subscription is registered under a .bitnet address. To determine the address under which you are subscribed, send listserv@csf the two word request. This request will also give you a list of all subscribers. RECIPIENTS REVS If your efforts to unsub have been frustrated, please write to SPECTOR@NWI.CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU rather than taking your problem to the list. It is helpful to forward a copy the of mail from listserv@csf that shows the source of your problem. If you would like to receive REVS messages in batches or digests instead of message-by-message, send the following command to LISTSERV@csf If you want to return to message-by-message mail, use the command SET REVS MAIL ACK If you want to see an index of the logs of past messages and other files send (to LISTSERV@csf) the command INDEX REVS The list of files returned from the index command are retrievable with the get command. If, for example, you are interested in messages from December 94, you send a message to LISTSERV@csf and in the body of the message type GET REVS DEC94 For friends who would like to subscribe, please have them send the four/five word cmd SUB REVS Firstname Lastname REMEMBER: All of these commands should be sent to LISTSERV@csf.colorado.edu -- Alan Spector spector@nwi.calumet.purdue.edu Sat May 4 05:00:01 MDT 1996 From DM12@soas.ac.uk Sat May 4 03:01:12 1996 4 May 96 09:55:47 GMT From: Detlef Mehnert Organization: S.O.A.S. To: forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, revs@csf.colorado.edu, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, UNReform@chatsubo.com, kmills@yorku.ca (Kurt Mills) Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 09:55:37 GMT Subject: New E-List: ACUNS-IO > Date sent: Fri, 3 May 1996 15:10:08 -0400 > To: forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, > PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, revs@csf.colorado.edu, > bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, UNReform@chatsubo.com > From: kmills@yorku.ca (Kurt Mills) > Subject: New E-List: ACUNS-IO > Send reply to: kmills@yorku.ca (Kurt Mills) > ACUNS and the IO Section of ISA > > are pleased to announce the establishment of the > > ACUNS-IO Listserv > > > The Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS) and the International > Organization Section of the International Studies Association (IO-ISA) are > co-sponsoring an email listserv for their members and others interested in > the discussion of issues related to international organization studies and > the United Nations system. > > This unmoderated listserv will be administered by ACUNS and Brown > University, and will be accessible to ACUNS members, IO Section members, > and the general public. Initially, the discussion will be "free-form." As > user interest and the listserv itself evolves, the sponsors will > periodi-cally solicit and post documents and/or ab-stracted "thought > pieces" to channel discussion of topical issues and events. > > Melissa Phillips (ACUNS) and Kurt Mills (York University-IO Section member) > will serve as the list's administrators. The listserv's technical point of > contact is Gregory Kazarian (Brown University).In addition to the timely > dissemination of information to ACUNS and IO Section sub-scribers, it is > hoped that this forum will serve as a useful platform through which: > > * an informed debate is engaged involving social scientists, legal > scholars, practitioners, and others regarding the UN system, international organization studies, and the future of global governance; and > * multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary per-spectives are brought to bear > in discussion of these issues to facilitate greater understanding. > > The only technical requirement to partici-pate in this listserv is access > to an email system. > As always, we welcome suggestions and comments from our respective > memberships as to the content and direction of this listserv. > > To Subscribe: > 1. Send an email message to: listserv@brownvm.brown.edu > 2. In the body of the message, type: "subscribe ACUNS-IO" (without the > quotes) followed by your full name > 3. Voila! You will receive a welcome message confirming your subscription, > instructions on how to post messages, and copies of all postings to the > group, including your own postings. > > For further information: > ACUNS Home Page * http://www.brown.edu/Departments/ACUNS > IONet * http://csf.Colorado.EDU/isa/sections/io/ > > Please share this information with interested colleagues and students. > > > From B.Jorgensen@flint.sdk.gu.se Tue May 7 03:28:59 1996 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:33:39 +0100 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu From: B.Jorgensen@flint.sdk.gu.se (Bent D. =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?= ) Subject: Book on 'Marginal World History' ??? Hi! I am teaching on a course on 'Third World History' for undergraduates at the Dept. for Peace and Development Research, Gothenburg University in Sweden. So far, I have used 'Europe and the People without History' by Eric Wolf. I, and certainly the student, have been very fond of that book as it is one of the first attempts to bring the marginal to the fore in World History. Now I am looking for a book which is more up to date, reflecting the post-modern and particularly post-colonial perspective AND at the same time covers the whole world. If you have any suggestions, I would be very greatful to know! Bent D. J=F8rgensen =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0 **************************************************** Department of Peace & Development Research G=F6teborg University Tel: +46-31-773 13 80 Brogatan 4 Home: +46- 320- 62 343 S-413 01 Gothenburg Fax: +46-31-773 43 74 **************************************************** From DM12@soas.ac.uk Fri May 10 10:59:34 1996 10 May 96 17:59:17 GMT From: Detlef Mehnert Organization: S.O.A.S. To: asylum-l@ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be, UNReform@chatsubo.com, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, anthap4@oakland.edu, kmills@yorku.ca, Susin Park Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:58:51 GMT Subject: UNHCR REFWORLD on Internet > Date sent: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:54:09 +0200 > From: Susin Park > To: asylum-l@ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be, UNReform@chatsubo.com, > isafp@csf.colorado.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, > bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, > PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, anthap4@oakland.edu, kmills@yorku.ca > Subject: UNHCR REFWORLD on Internet > Send reply to: Susin Park > UNHCR's REFWORLD on Internet > > UNHCR's Centre for Documentation and > Research (CDR) is delighted to announce a > full WWW implementation of its > REFWORLD site, to replace its previous > gopher. > > The new REFWORLD site continues HCR's > policy of providing authoritative > information on refugees worldwide, and > includes country reports, legal and > policy-related documents, literature > references, statistics and publications. Of > particular interest are the Repatriation > Information > Reports prepared by UNHCR's Special > Operation in former Yugoslavia > (SOFY). These reports, created and > updated by UNHCR field staff, provide > detailed information about specific > municipalities within Bosnia & > Herzegovina, in order to inform those > contemplating return. Among the subjects > covered are political background, > demographic characteristics, security > situation, registration procedures for > returnees, infrastructure conditions and > existing assistance programmes. > > CDR is an information, research and > training centre for UNHCR. It is dedicated > to providing reliable and current > information and analysis on all aspects > relating to refugees and displaced persons, > including their countries of origin, legal > instruments, human rights, minorities, > conflict situations and resolution of > conflicts. > > URL for the new REFWORLD homepage: > http://www.unicc.org/unhcr > > Best regards > > CDR > > > From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Mon May 13 09:47:53 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 10:46:02 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Pseudo-scientific Racism Info >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: The following appeared on the Eram list. Some members of REVS might be interested in reading this. ------------------------------ From: marek.kohn@mcr1.poptel.org.uk (Marek Kohn) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 19:48:50 +0100 To: eram-list@bradford.ac.uk Subject: Introducing myself ... Hello. I'm here because of my book 'The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science' (Cape 1995), and the Web site I've been maintaining in order to update the book and encourage discussion around it (http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/racegallery/). The Race Gallery discusses how science deals with the issue of race, and how scientific (or pseudoscientific) ideas about race circulate around society at large. Recently, the site has been covering the controversy over Christopher Brand, the Edinburgh University lecturer whose book on intelligence was withdrawn by its publishers after the Independent on Sunday ran an interview in which he described himself as a "scientific racist". I've been particularly concerned by the ways in which his critics have responded, since these raise important questions about the relationship between freedom of expression and opposition to racism. I'll be posting more on the subject to this list before long, but in the meantime please check the site. You may also find Kenan Malik's article in this week's Spectator interesting. Here's a snippet which I've just added to my pages: 'British newspapers went to town on a report, by the school inspection agency Ofsted, about reading standards in three inner London boroughs; Islington, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Naturally enough, they highlighted two stark findings: that 80 per cent of 7-year-olds and 40 per cent of 11-year-olds had reading ages lower than their actual ages. They tended to overlook a detail which casts an interesting sidelight on the row over Christopher Brand's book on intelligence and race. The worst readers were poor white children; the best were black Africans.' Marek Kohn +44 171 286 5943 27 Warrington Crescent London W9 1ED England ______________________________________________________________________________ 'The Race Gallery' Web pages have moved to http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/racegallery/. Please visit! ____________________________________________________________________________ __ From hogan@intac.com Mon May 13 01:25:00 1996 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 03:24:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Martin Hogan To: Susin Park isafp@csf.colorado.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, anthap4@oakland.edu, kmills@yorku.ca Subject: Web site info In-Reply-To: Thanks for the info Susin, I've updated the link on my pages. I've also just added another directory on health issues, at the monment mental health and another section on hiv/aids in the developing world (give me a couple of weeks to finish adding present documetnation). http://www.intac.com/PubService/human_rights/HEALTH/ If anyone has any links or info to add. please let me know Martin Hogan http://www.intac.com/PubService/human_rights From united@antenna.nl Tue May 14 10:55:48 1996 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 17:12:40 +0200 To: united@antenna.nl From: united@antenna.nl (UNITED) --========================_14717634==_ Dear friends, Herewith we send you information on our next UNITED conference, in October in Stockholm, and our latest information leaflet on e-mail and other forms of ELECTRONIC ACTION. Keep sending us information on your activities, about deaths of refugees trying to enter Fortress Europe and about detention centers for refugees and illegal immigrants around Europe! With best wishes, Saskia Daru N.B.: The invitation is included in this e-mail message, but the leaflet is an attached file! ****************************************************************************= **** UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl UNITED, the biggest European anti-racist network of more than 380 organisations, organises a series of conferences in several European countries to unite and concen-trate the anti-racist forces. During the last UNITED Conference, held in February '96 in Praha, 90 organisations from 40 countries met, from Portugal to Uzbekistan, from Ireland to Bulgaria. More than half of the delegates came from Central and Eastern Europe. Among other things they finalised the planning of the "Europe-wide Action Week Against Racism", debated on nationalism and wars and trained their fundraising skills. CONFERENCE-INVITATION (N.B. if you would like to nominate your organisation, mail to us for the official nomination form) "Europe UNITED!" Cooperation Against Nationalism and Racism October 9-13, 1996 in Stockholm (S) During this conference we will focus on the effects of Fortress Europe for East-West cooperation and on campaigning, information and training. Here is a summary of the program: Effects of Fortress Europe for migrants and refugees A lecture, discussion and working groups on the Schengen, TREVI and Dublin agreements and their consequences, i.e.: detention policy and our demands for citizenship and equal rights. How to build a successful NGO Eastern and Western experts will present their varied and practical approaches to starting and practical developing anti-racist and human rights NGO's. Working groups on various aspects of NGO work Political Lobbying, Kick Racism Out of School, Integration of Minorities, War Refugee Support, Multicultural Living, Jewish Culture and Anti-semitism=8A European Year Against Racism (EU) What do the European Commission and the governments plan for the year 1997 and for the European Summit in Amsterdam 6/97? What are our plans for (re)actions? Working groups on European actions and campaigns Amsterdam 6/97, "Kristallnacht" 11/96, Europe-Wide Action Week Against Racism 3/97, Anti-nationalist campaigns=8A Long-term networking in/with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) A co-worker of UNITED's East-West partnership project will report on difficulties and obstacles and will present ways of successful cooperation. Kick racism good-bye Presentation and debate with anti-fascist football supporters about hooligan= ism. Intercultural program To relax from the discussions there will be video-films, political caf=E9s, the famous infomarket, international snacks and a Swedish dinner with a multicultural evening and a disco-party=8A The detailed program has been worked out by an International Preparatory Group of 9 organisations from 8 countries. All working groups will be chaired by two delegates, one from Eastern Europe and one from Western Europe. TECHNICAL INFO: WORKING METHODS plenaries, working groups, political caf=E9s, information market, intercultural inputs=8A PARTICIPANTS The conference is planned for 75 participants who represent important (inter)national anti-racist and human rights organisations. Active grass-root groups from all over Europe are also invited. Priority will be given to nominations of young people between 18-30 years and members of minorities. We will try to reach an equal balance of female/male participants and a good geographical distribution. Each organisation can nominate only one delegate. LANGUAGES The conference language is English. But don't worry, the level will not be too high, because English is almost nobody's mother tongue. If you have difficulties in expressing yourself, surely we can help each other. PARTICIPATION FEE is DM 100 for participants from Western Europe and DM 50 for Central Europe. It will be deducted from the reimbursement of travel costs in Stockholm. Participants coming from Eastern Europe don't have to pay the participation fee. =46ull board and lodging and the complete program is paid by UNITED. REIMBURSEMENT OF TRAVEL COSTS UNITED contributes to your travel costs. You have to look for the cheapest possibility (all reduction obligatory, like APEX flights, youth fares etc.) You will have to attend the whole meeting and to proof your expenses with an original invoice. Please regard the maximum reimbursement for your country: no reimbursement for the Scandinavian countries (DK-N-S-SF) maximum DM 400 for Benelux, Germany and Great-Britain maximum DM 600 for all other Western European countries, Croatia, Fed. Rep. of Yugoslavia and Turkey. maximum DM 650 for all countries of Central and Eastern Europe Prices for these Apex flights or train/ship travel have to be confirmed by UNITED before travelling. DATES / PLACE The Conference will start on Wednesday evening (09/10) and will end with lunch on Sunday (13/10). It will take place in Stockholm (Sweden). =46URTHER INFORMATION will be worked out by the International Preparatory Group and sent early enough before the activity, e.g. finalised program, how to get there, what to bring, etc. ****************************************************************************= **** --========================_14717634==_ UNITED INFORMATION LEAFLET No. 8 ELECTRONIC ACTION THIS IS A PUBLICATION OF UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees PB 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778 fax +31-20-6834582 UNITED INFORMATION LEAFLET No. 8 ELECTRONIC ACTION **************************************************************************** **************************************** New methods of communication are developing every day. You can see e-mail and the internet as too difficult, too technical... But you can see the new media as a new opportunity to work together as well. The point we want to make is not that it is wonderful and great and that it will cure all our communication problems. It will not. But it may be quite useful. The internet, as most computer devices, was first developed for the army. In the United States the technology was used to keep communication open between the different army bases and research centers. After the army, the universities got a hold of it. That is when free-spirited people discovered that the internet is a way to escape authorities, to escape the boundaries of distance. When you communicate via the computer it can be unclear where information is coming from, who is sending it and who controls it. The internet is free. Not only as in'liberated' but also like in 'without cost'. What you pay is for the phone and for the provider... Nobody rules internet, so nobody can take any money for it. The spirit of internet is also that it is build by its users. This means that everyone tries not only to GET something from the internet, but also tries to give something back, information, software, etc. Now so many people use internet, that the atmosphere is changing again. E.g.: commercial companies are discovering the possibilities of internet. What it will be in the future can not be predicted... E-MAIL AND INTERNET NEW METHODS OF COMMUNICATION **************************************************************************** **************************************** WHAT IS E-MAIL? E-mail stands for electronic mail, mail that is not send through the regular post-office but via telephone wires. The technical details of e-mail are more or less like those of a fax-machine. A message is translated into tone and sent to another unit that translates the tones back to a message. The difference between faxing and e-mail is that you don't have to call directly. There is no need for a fax machine on the other end of the line. When you want to use e-mail, you need a computer and a modem. On the computer you have to install certain software to handle the electronic messages. If you want to use the Internet in another way, you need software for that also. You need to get in touch with a provider, a company that provides Internet access to its customers. When you send an e-mail message, it is sent directly from your computer via a modem to a provider. The provider has a big computer that is linked to the Internet 24 hours a day. This computer will then send the message to another big computer . This computer receives the message and puts it in a special place, the 'mailbox', that is reserved for the person you have sent a message to. This person can get his/her mail whenever he/she wants. INTERNET AND OTHER NETS The Internet is not an individual network, but an agreement of network operators to connect themselves. So it consists of big computers that run their own network, but are also linked to telephone lines 24 hours a day. All these different networks are full of information. Imagine for example what you could do with all the entries of libraries around the world... Almost all libraries are connected to the Internet, and so are most big newspapers and tv-stations in Western Europe and the United States. Of course you will not be able to access every single piece of information directly, but at least you will know where to search for it. Internet with a capital 'I' is not the only network. There are other networks that are again a combination of networks. One of those other inter networks is Fidonet. This is based primarily in Eastern Europe. Luckily all these nets are connected in one way or another, so it is possible to send mail via Internet to a Fidonet user and vice versa. When you send e-mail you use one of these inter networks. E-mail uses the big computers in the network to transfer your messages. When we speak of Internet, we usually mean all the networks. Internet is the biggest one, which is why we use its name as a generic term. WHY E-MAIL, WHY INTERNET? Internet and e-mail are not just scary and strange. They can be very useful and actually improve our communication. The most important reason why it is useful to use electronic mail is because it is cheap. The reason is that you only use a limited amount of time on the phone line and this time is spent on a local, not international tariffs. Just as an example: writing a letter within Europe costs 1.00 DM but it will take up to a week to arrive at its destination. To phone and tell the other person an equivalent of two pages text takes some ten minutes, this will cost you approximately 10 DM. Using e-mail you pay maybe 0,50 DM and it arrives in seconds. Another valid reason to use e-mail and the Internet is to avoid using a lot of paper. You don't have to print envelopes, lick stamps etc. You don't need to spend a lot of time and money to mail something to every person separately, in one stroke of your keyboard you can send something to everybody that you wanted to reach ... and has a computer and Internet access. Internet can be used for more than just mail. There are possibilities to send files, programmes, images, and even voice. These are all done with different software programmes and systems. One of the possibilities of the Internet is the World Wide Web or WWW. In general you can find all the software you need on Internet itself. Your provider should also be able to provide you with the most basic software. When you use Macintosh, you need also a control panel called MacTCP or TCP/IP. The most commonly used programme for WWW is 'Netscape Navigator', both for Macintosh and Windows machines. For e-mail, which is simpler, the most used computer programmes are Pegasus Mail for Windows and Eudora for Macintosh. There is also software that helps you download files from a source on the Internet, they are called 'FTP-programmes'. The most widely used are Fetch for Macintosh and WS_FTP for Windows. What these programmes can help you do is explained later in this leaflet. WWW The World Wide Web, also called WWW or the Web is the most visible and visual part of Internet. It can be accessed easily, with software that you can find on the Web itself. The Web is mostly used for information gathering. On WWW you can find places or 'sites' where people show information. In reality these are placed in a server-computer that is with a provider and is linked on to Internet 24 hours a day. These sites provide you with all different kinds of information. The most important difference with normal printed information is that you do not read from the first to the last page. On the first page you will find references to information that is more specific and you can access that information by activating that word in the text, if it is marked by a different colour and/or underlined. It means that information on a UNITED page situated on a computer in Amsterdam could be connected to information of the Institute of Race Relations in Great Britain and you would only have to click with your mouse on the marked word on the UNITED page to make your computer get the information in Great Britain. While you're doing this, of course you still only pay local phone rates. The Web contains a lot of graphics that require a powerful computer. But the Netscape software that is most widely used to access WWW has an option to skip pictures and only display text. Still, you need a pretty powerful computer, one that can use Windows or a Macintosh to run Netscape. You can recognise a WWW address by the letters http, thatstands for 'hyper text transfer protocol' , and is followed by a colon ':' and two slashes '//' and the letters www. The way these addresses are written has to do with an agreement that has been made a long time ago. There are no real reasons why it is like that. One example of a WWW address: http://www.lycos.com. This is the site where you can find a 'search engine' that can help you in searching for information on the Web. There exist other engines as well. You can find them on the back of this leaflet. CONFERENCES/NEWSGROUPS After e-mail and WWW, conferences/news groups are probably the most used application of electronic communication. The functioning of a conference or news group is roughly the same as a normal bulletin board that you can find in supermarkets and schools everywhere. Messages can be put on the board, other people can read them and someone can keep the messages up to date. There are conferences/news groups on almost all subjects that you can think of from a group discussing only issues related to John Lennon to groups on global warming and sexism. You can just look at the 'postings' in a news group but you can also subscribe to one. When you subscribe to a news group/conference you ask them to send you all the new postings at your request. Your computer tells you how much new postings there are and you can then ask it to retrieve them. It is also possible to publish in (several) news groups. Mostly there is a special e-mail address where you can send your articles, etc. In some newsgroups there is moderator who sees to it that only relevant messages are posted, in most there is none. The ones that have a moderator are usually called differently - like LISTSERV or Majordomo - and you usually get all the information via e-mail. For NGO's it might be interesting to actually have a news group for themselves. In such a conference it is possible to exchange specific information. Keep in mind that a conference is public unless you have a very special agreement with your provider. Normally, anyone can read what is posted in a news group. BULLETIN BOARDS ( OR BBSs) Bulletin Boards are now somewhat outdated. They were used before the Internet was what it is now. A Bulletin Board is a computer connected to a phone line where you can read and post information. The computer is not connected to a network, so you have to call directly to the computer. This means that you pay more telephone costs. Bulletin Boards are still used a lot by the extreme right as they are easier to secure and protect, as they can ask for multiple pass words etcetera. E-MAIL ADRESSES E-mail is sent to a mailbox that has an Internet address. There are different ways of addressing, but the most common is Internet domain name addressing. In such an address there is a clear order. It looks like this: united@antenna.nl user identification AT main domain COUNTRY CODE united @ antenna. nl The user identification is the identification of the individual user of that mailbox. UNITED uses simply 'united' as its user identification, but it can be almost anything. The '@', sometimes called 'monkey tail' is actually short for 'at' and tells you that the user is to be found at a specific place or 'main domain'. The main domain consists of at least two parts. One part is the name of the provider , also called the domain name. For UNITED this is 'antenna' as Antenna is our provider. The last part of the address is formed by the country-code in Europe and by the kind of provider in the United States. UNITED has a provider in the Netherlands, so the address ends with 'nl'. The last part of the address in the United States is formed by e.g. com (for company/commercial), org (for organisations, esp. non-governmental), edu (for educational, esp. universities) etc. For Fidonet users it works a little differently. They use numbers instead of letters for the user identification. The address can be transcribed for Internetusers, but this is quite complicated. The smartest thing to do is to ask Fidonet users to give you the address you can use from the Internet. ON-LINE AND OFF-LINE When you work with a computer and a modem, there are two ways of working: on-line and off-line. In brief this means that your computer is either connected via a phone line during the whole time that you work (on-line) or you only connect for a short time to retrieve or send information (off-line). In general it is much better to work off-line as this does not cost you as much money. You prepare messages and such on your own computer with your own software and only connect to the provider to transfer these messages. The same goes when you receive messages or information via Internet. Your computer puts the information in its memory and shuts the phone line off till you need it again. Then you can look at the information without being connected through a phone line. Sometimes off-line work is not possible due to the provider or to the fact that you don't have the required software. On-line working means that the burden of having the right software and a powerful computer is on the provider. You only need a very simple computer and a modem. But, as already mentioned, it can be expensive in phone costs as you need to stay connected for a longer time. Most of the time this also means that the phone line has to be of a reasonably good quality.. PROVIDERS A provider is the company that owns the central computer that you use to connect to the wide world of Internet. Their computer is very powerful and is always connected to the Internet. Providers come in different shapes and forms. Some have an idealistical origin, some are very commercial. The prices that you pay for their services vary considerably. Before choosing a provider it is vital to check out prices of different providers as well as the background and ask around about the kind of service they offer. A provider is very powerful. The people working there handle (and can see) all the mail that goes out and comes in and handle (or don't handle!) all the problems that might arise. The power of providers is now getting weaker as there are more providers, but in general, you are totally dependent on them for your mail, your connection to Internet and WWW, etc. So before deciding, check out: prices, services (help available), background (who owns it?), kind of connections (Fidonet, Internet, just e-mail mailbox). Check what kind of software you can use and if they can provide you with a starter pack. In general a provider helps you in every step of the way of getting started with electronic communication. If they don't, get another provider. ELECTRONIC MAILING-LISTS You can use e-mail to send messages not just to one person but to a whole list of persons, as you would when you use a normal mailing list. The good thing about using an e-mail mailing list is that you don't have to copy the message, you don't have to put the addresses on the envelopes, you let your computer and the computer of your provider do the job. You have to ask your provider about the precise ways of doing this, as there are many different ways of making a mailing list. SECURITY Security on the Internet is poor. Most information is public. It is also quite easy to intercept information. Even e-mail is easy to infiltrate. This can be done especially where the e-mail is transferred - at your provider or at the recipients' provider. It is possible, for example, to change someones message on a conference without letting other people know you did it. Can you imagine what would happen if you would just delete the word 'not' a few times from a message? The only way of making your e-mail safe is to encrypt it. There are several computer programmes that do this. The best until now is PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy. Note that it is called 'pretty good' not 'perfect'. Even with PGP you cannot be absolutely sure. PGP is easy to use and you can get it with most of the providers in Europe or with computer freak friends. In general: information that needs to be a secret is not safe on paper and it is not safe on the Internet. If you have security problems with your normal mail or if your phones are tapped, you probably will have similar problems with your e-mail. If you don't, you probably won't have such problems with e-mail either. E-MAIL MESSAGES E-mail messages can look impressive and technical. The reason for that is simple; the addressing. On top of your message you find a lot of gibberish that tells you who sent the message, through which providers it went and who received the message also. If you understand that, an e-mail message becomes pretty obvious. An e-mail message consists of an address, a body text and sometimes a signature and an attachment. This is an example of the way a message might look: X-POP3-Rcpt: united@antenna.nl Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:08:24 From: yap@utcluj.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 To UNITED Cc: aslir@pcnet.pcnet.ro Bcc: nbk@dds.nl Subject: PHARE-project (Text) Don't worry about the first line. It tells you what kind of programme has been used by the provider in sending the message. It is only interesting if there are problems. Then your provider might want to know. On the date-line you can find the date and time the message was sent. 'From' tells you the e-mail address of the sender. The line that says Mime 1.0 in this example tells you which method was used to make beeps out of your text. Again this is not particularly interesting unless something goes wrong. Most computers can handle all kinds of methods nowadays. The addressee or recipient can be found behind the word 'to'. 'Cc' means 'copies to'. You don't have to send one message again and again, you can send a copy to anyone you like. 'Bcc' means almost the same as 'cc' but it does not show up at the other end. This is a smart option when you also send your mailings to private e-mail addresses. Otherwise these addresses are shown to all recipients of the mailing. In the subject line you need to put the subject of the letter. You should fill it in, as people who get lots of letters need to know very quickly which letter has which subject. Be careful when sending out your info via e-mail: it has to be in a very easy format, only letters, no pictures and no lay-out! This means it is not as attractive as on paper. You have to think whether it has to be attractive or whether it has to be fast and cheap. In e-mail you cannot use national accents. No |, g or i, nor n or c. Also: be sure that the information is public! Any confidential information should be kept off the Internet. FAQs: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS The Internet was started as a way to exchange information. This is still its most important reason for being. This means that almost all questions you have can be answered on the net. But more importantly; most questions have already been answered. When you go on the net, you will find that most newsgroups and conferences as well as a lot of Websites, especially those where you can find software, have a list of Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ. If you read those first you won't have to ask a question for the hundredth time to the same person. NETIQUETTE It has been a long time since the net was only used by people who knew exactly what they were doing. New users come on the net every day. This is sometimes very annoying to the older users. That is why we put in a few points as to how to behave on the net: Do: read the FAQs, put a subject in the subject line, sign your messages. Do not send mail to people who didn't ask for it, don't change other peoples messages, don't use only capital letters in your message (this is considered as yelling on the Internet), don't quote an entire text in a reply of one sentence. Keeping up: free ware and share ware Technologies and computer programmes are changing fast. The face of the Web is changing all the time. The latest developments are using different frames within one page, different information sources next to each other. There will be more sound, more moving pictures etc. on the Web soon. You will need new software to access those pages to their full potential. That is the bad news. The good news is that most software connected with Internet is available via Internet. It is possible to download programmes from specific sites on the Internet for free or almost for free. Free ware is absolutely free, it can be copied, used and copied again without paying. Share ware is free, but if you like it you are asked to send a small amount to the programmer, usually $ 10-15. You don't HAVE to do that, but it is a good way of keeping smart programmers happy and productive. You can download those programmes with different kinds of programmes. Try them out as there is quite a difference in the time they take to do the job. The most widely used are Fetch for Macintosh and WS_FTP for Windows. Most of these computer programmes work with FTP or File Transfer Protocol. While you are transferring these programmes off a website, you need to keep the phone line open and free. Which also means also that bad phone lines may interfere with the transmission. All the programmes mentioned under 'Why e-mail, why Internet' are on the net and can be downloaded with FTP software. Most of those programmes have been compressed, or been made small, so they have to be decompressed or 'unwrapped' before you can use them. This means that you need a small programme, like 'Stuff It' for Macintosh or 'PKZip' for Windows to unpack them after downloading them. You can find most software via a World Wide Website with the address 'http://www.shareware.com'. This site contains addresses of most other sites available for downloading shareware and freeware. ELECTRONIC ACTION E-mail and the Internet can help us in our activities in several ways. One way that has been suggested, but that we do not support is 'bombarding' an e-mail address with an enormous amount of megabytes. While bombarding a fax machine or a real mailbox with letters can be a good action, this doesn't work very well with e-mail. If you don't do it carefully, the receiver can bomb you back. Of course it is different if messages of support or protest are coming in from all different sources. Then it might show the force of the movement. The biggest advantage of using e-mail, newsgroups and the World Wide Web is that it can provide you with information that you can never get via the papers or via television. It is also a way of publishing stuff that you could never get into papers or on the television. When making use of the Internet and electronic mail in an effective way, you can bypass all the conventional media. You can publish and receive the latest information on actions that are going on. There is almost no delay in time. That is what happened at the Beijing Women's Convention. There the latest news was put on Internet by participants of the NGO shadow conference and as such it did not have to pass the Chinese censorship. You can publish information on a web-page/home page/web site. On such a site you can publish all kinds of info. When you do that; make sure that it includes an e-mail address and/or an (application) form for more information. Find out exactly what the provider charges you for. There are providers that charge for the information that is downloaded from the page, some charge for the amount of megabytes on your page, etc. INTERESTING WEB-SITES AND NEWSGROUPS It is impossible to put an exhaustive or even reasonably accurate list of newsgroups and websites in an info-leaflet; newsgroups and websites change every minute. Be sure to make use of search engines such as the ones listed below. You can find up to date info on Netscape, Internet and search engines on the Netscape homepage at http://home.mcom.com/. Info on the Internet list of documents to get you started http://www.sips.state.nc.us/docs/top-10.html On-line Dictionary of Computing http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/ Search engines: Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Lycos http://www.lycos.com All1One http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch Search through mailing lists and newsgroups Liszt http://www.liszt.com/ Deja News http://www.dejanews.com Inter-Links http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/news.pl Media on line Media Link http://www.dds.nl/~kidon Media Info http://www.mediainfo.com/edpub/e papers. home.page. html United Nations: http://www.unicc.org/ Anti-racism/anti-fascism sites with lots of links: Anti-Fascist Web http://huizen.dds.nl/~antifasc European Crosspoint Against Racism http://www.euronet.nl/users/mag2/ecp/ecp.html Afranet http://www.gn.apc.org/afranet Anti Racism Resources Homepage http://www.efn.org/~dennis_w/race.html On the holocaust: the Nizkor project http://nizkor.almanac.bc.ca For nice newsgroups search with Liszt and Deja News or go through the full group list of your news software programme. In general you can get real news under the news.* newsgroups or under the clari.news.* newsgroups. The newsgroups beginning with alt.* and rec.* are just for fun. Be sure to observe what is going on in the group before entering in the discussion. **************************************************************************** **************************************** For more information: UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees PB 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778 fax +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl --========================_14717634==_ ********************************************************* UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees Postbus 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands tel.no. +31-20-6834778 fax.no. +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl ******************************************************** Speak out for refugees rights! 16 JUNE 1996 International Refugee Day ******************************************************** --========================_14717634==_-- From you@presence.com Thu May 16 12:52:15 1996 From: you@presence.com Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:52:13 +0900 To: REVS@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Indigenous People Around The World YOU are invited to paricipate in; YOU America "The Fourth World" a living interactive "self portrait" of the indigenous people of the `Americas' from Argentina to Alaska. During the months of June,July and August YOU (http://youmag.com) will be hosting this event. If you would like to participate just send us a "Self Portrait"(Photographs,Drawings,Collage or Sound,etc..) send it to; you@presence.com or 175 S. Fair Oaks Pasadena,CA U.S.A 91105 You magazine is dedicated to the cultivation and celebration of the individual,and is unapologetically image-based. Rember YOU is You! Deanna Thomas deanna@presence.com From niall@conflict.incore.ulst.ac.uk Thu May 16 09:39:03 1996 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:38:56 +0100 (BST) From: Niall O Dochartaigh To: listservs , ipra-l@hawaii.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: INSECT; INCORE school for Ethnic Conflict Training INCORE is the joint Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity of the UNited Nations University and the University of Ulster. INSECT, the INCORE school for Ethnic Conflict Training, is holding its first Research Training Course at Aberfoyle House, Derry, Northern Ireland from 9-20 September 1996. The theme is Ethnic Conflict in the Contemporary World and it is aimed at young academics, primarily from areas of conflict. For further information consult the INCORE website at http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/insect.html Contact INCORE at: Email: incore@incore.ulst.ac.uk Tel: +44 1504 375500 Fax: +44 1504 375510 or at the address below INCORE Aberfoyle House Northland Road Derry BT48 7JA N. Ireland ________________________________ From niall@conflict.incore.ulst.ac.uk Mon May 20 06:57:43 1996 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 13:52:27 +0100 (BST) From: Niall O Dochartaigh To: listservs , ipra-l@hawaii.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: INCORE guides to internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Myanmar (Burma) and Nepal INCORE is the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity of the United Nations University and the University of Ulster. INCORE has just produced the first editions of the 'INCORE guide to internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Myanmar (Burma)' and the 'INCORE guide to internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Nepal'. The guides are available at http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html _________________________________ Niall O Dochartaigh Research Officer INCORE Aberfoyle House Northland Road Derry BT48 7JA N. Ireland niall@incore.ulst.ac.uk ________________________________ From PARK@unhcr.ch Wed May 22 09:38:54 1996 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 17:35:27 +0200 From: Susin Park To: asylum-l@ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be, UNReform@chatsubo.com, isafp@csf.colorado.edu, revs@csf.colorado.edu, peacekeeping@gmu.edu, bisa-un@mailbase.ac.uk, forced-migration@mailbase.ac.uk, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU, anthap4@oakland.edu, kmills@yorku.ca Subject: UNHCR Looking for Consultants CONSULTANTS ON REFUGEES AND HUMANITARIAN ISSUES UNHCR wishes to update its roster of policy research and evaluation specialists. Consultants who wish to be included on the roster should have proven expertise in refugee and humanitarian issues, field research or operational experience, as well as first-class writing and analytical skills. Knowledge of UNHCR programmes would be advantageous. Please send your CV and writing samples to Dr J.F. Crisp, UNHCR, MBT7, CP 2500, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Telephone: (41-22) 739-8810, e-mail: crisp@unhcr.ch From RPlatkin@aol.com Thu May 23 01:07:21 1996 From: RPlatkin@aol.com Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 03:05:56 -0400 To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, PSN@csf.colorado.edu Light@soc.sscnet.ucla.edu, JC007SXXI@aol.com, preich@law.whittier.edu, RSSO314@uvm.haifa.ac.il, ida@cats.ucsc.edu, Ct20001@aol.com Subject: Resource for Ethnic Studies (Forward) Subject: NEW URL and greatly expanded WWW V-lib Migration and Ethnic Relations! From: ajkosten@xs4all.nl (Arthur Kosten) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 17:15:30 GMT To all of you interested in migration and ethnic relations, ERCOMER - the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations has always been very keen on developing the principle of networking as a major way of collecting and distributing information. The MERGER Newsletter is one of our networking tools. Before the next issue of MERGER will be published, we want to inform you of another major networking initiative that you might be interested in: our World Wide Web Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations. This Virtual Library is built to enable easy access to major Internet resources in the field. It can be thought of as a catalogue of Internet resources on migration and ethnic relations. In order to catch up with the spectaculair growth of the Internet, a new and greatly expanded version of the WWW Virtual Library Migration and Ethnic Relations has been made available now. In addition to the existing list of resources, a number of seperate documents are offered that provide detailed descriptions of major online resources in the Virtual Library. At the moment, the Virtual Library provides access to over 180 online resources on Migration and Ethnic Relations. In addition, an Interactive Migration and Ethnic Relations Information Board is available on which information requests and announcements can be posted. As the Virtual Library receives more than 1000 visitors each week, messages on the Interactive Information Board are sure to catch the eye of a large, targeted and mostly professional audience. Future additions that are planned include: an index to online resources classified by subject; searching the virtual library by keyword; a mailinglist announcing new sites that have been included in the virtual library; and much more. The New URL is: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/index.html The old URL will continue to exist as a complete but concise list of resources at URL: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/wwwvlmer.html A What's New list with recently added resources is included at URL: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/new/index.html Please visit the WWW Virtual Library and bookmark it for future reference. You are encouraged to send your feedback by e-mail to ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl, or to the Interactive Information Board in the Virtual Library. New additions in the Virtual Library this month: Research Centers * SSIRC - Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA) * William Monroe Trotter Institute (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) Academic Departments and Courses * American Ethnic Studies (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA) Journals and Newsletters * IRL - International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) * RSQ - Refugee Survey Quarterly (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) * Rural Migration News (Philip Martin, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis California, USA) Conferences and Meetings * World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Inequality, Minneapolis, USA, May 16 - 19, 1996 (The Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA) Government and International Bodies * US Department of Justice - Immigration And Naturalization Service (US Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, USA.) Topical Information * Integrating the East: The Labor Market Effects of Immigration (Paper by Bauer, T. and K.F. Zimmermann, CEPR Discussion Paper Series, No. 1235) * Ethnic Mosaic of the Quad Cities (Augustana College Library, Rock Island, IL, USA.) * Network Migration of Ethnic Germans (Paper by Bauer, T. and K.F. Zimmermann published in Muenchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beitraege, No. 95-16) * The Migration Decision with Uncertain Costs (Paper by Bauer, T. published in Muenchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beitraege, Nr. 95-25) Other Sources of Information * Ethnic World Survey (CIEMEN - Centre Internacional Escarre per a les Minories Etniques i Nacionals, Barcelona, Catalonia) Regards, Arthur. _________________________________________________________________ Arthur Kosten P.O. Box 80.140 ERCOMER - the European Research Centre 3584 CS Utrecht on Migration and Ethnic Relations The Netherlands Utrecht University e-mail: ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl Phone:+31 30 539220 ajkosten@xs4all.nl Fax: +31 30 534733 WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ajkosten/ Home: +31 71 143920 _________________________________________________________________ From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Fri May 24 12:36:42 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu" Date: Fri, 24 May 96 14:31:35 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Nigeria:HRW Letter (Excerpts) I forward the following of potential interest to the list, note: abuses of human rights and dignity continue in Nigeria. When will the madness end? Nigeria: HRW Letter (Excerpts) Date Distributed (ymd): 960523 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH AFRICA 1522 K St., NW Washington, DC 20009 Telephone: (202) 371-6592; Facsmile: (202) 371-0124 E-mail: hrwdc@hrw.org Peter Takirambudde, Executive Director Janet Fleischman, Washington Director [Note: the text below is slightly abridged. The full text can be found at: http://www.cldc.howard.edu/~ndmorg/Letters/HRWAbacha.html] May 10,1996 General Sani Abacha Chairman, Provisional Ruling Council State House, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Nigeria Dear General Abacha: I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch/Africa to protest the continuing detention of human rights and pro-democracy activists in Nigeria. Despite the international outcry surrounding the executions of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists last November the Nigerian military government has persisted in flagrant violations of the human rights of Nigerian citizens. Most recently, the wife of detained presidential candidate Moshood Abiola, was arrested and charged on 8 May with conspiracy, apparently only as a result of her public activities campaigning for his release. The State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree No. 2 of 1984 has been repeatedly condemned by international observers, including the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In 1993, the Working Group declared a number of detentions carried out under the decree to be arbitrary, and requested the government of Nigeria to bring its laws into conformity with the provisions and principles incorporated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ... Particularly objectionable amongst the provisions of Decree No 2 are the following: a detainee has no right to be informed of the reasons for his or her detention; he or she has no right of access to family, lawyers or private medical treatment; detention orders are renewable, thus permitting indefinite detention on grounds of "state security" without charge or trial; the courts' jurisdiction to review detention orders has been ousted, so that no civil proceedings may be brought in respect of anything done in terms of the decree, nor may the constitutionality of any action be inquired into by any court. Even where individuals face damages for what appear to be normal criminal offences, many have been tried in military tribunals whose procedures fall far short of international standards of due process. Most notoriously, in November 1995, a special tribunal convicted of murder and sentenced to death Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other supporters of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). ... In April of this year, the UN Human Rights Committee ... ruled that, by establishing special tribunals that exclude free choice of lawyers or provisions for appeals, by allowing indefinite detention, and by not investigating allegations of torture and ill treatment, Nigeria is in violation of the ICCPR. The Committee urgently recommended that Nigeria immediately suspend all decrees establishing special tribunals or otherwise abrogating fundamental rights. ... DETENTIONS UNDER DECREE No.2 Gani Fawehinmi Chief Gani Fawehinmi is one of Nigeria's best known and most courageous human rights lawyers and leader of the National Conscience Party (NCP), which has been protesting the government's three-year program of transition to civilian rule. Amongst other important cases, he led the defense team for Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other MOSOP members in the trial before a special tribunal that led to their execution, and subsequently launched an action to challenge the constitutionality of that tribunal and of a further tribunal constituted to try 19 other Ogoni activists. He was detained on January 30 of this year, shortly before he was due to address a rally at the University of Lagos. He has been detained by the military authorities on many previous occasions for his work. After being held at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) in Shangisha, near Lagos, Chief Fawehinmi was transferred to a prison in Bauchi State, in the north of Nigeria. Although Fawehinmi suffers from hypertension and became seriously ill while in detention on a previous occasion, the military authorities have ignored court orders for him to be allowed to receive medication from his family. We understand that he has recently received hospital treatment but is now back in prison, where his health remains poor. Although he has been visited once by his wife, he has since been held incommunicado. Femi Falana Femi Falana is president of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADL), a human rights lawyer, and worked with Chief Fawehinmi in the defence of Ken Saro Wiwa. He was arrested on February 14, 1996, after security police seized files from his chambers, ... He was most recently said to be held in Hadeija prison in Jigawa state, in the north of Nigeria. Femi Aborishade Femi Aborishade is deputy head of the National Conscience Party. Following the detention of Gani Fawehinmi, the NCP campaigned for his release, and also protested the local government elections to be held on a non-party basis at the end of March. On February 13, the government announced that it had promulgated a new decree making it a criminal offence the "undermining, preventing, forestalling or prejudicing" of the transition program. On February 14, Femi Aborisade was arrested. It is not known where he is being held. Milton Dabibi Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), until his dismissal by the military government in August 1994 following a two month pro-democracy strike, was arrested in Lagos on January 25, 1996. He was initially held at the SSS office in Ikoyi, Lagos. News of his detention first appeared in a Nigerian newspaper on February 14. He is being held at a prison in the north of Nigeria, far from his family in Lagos. Nosa Igiebor Nosa Igiebor is editor-in-chief of the independent weekly magazine Tell, which has frequently been critical of the military government in Nigeria. He was arrested on December 23, 1995 by members of the SSS. 20,000 copies of the Christmas Day edition of Tell, with the cover story "Abacha is adamant: terrorises the opposition", were confiscated at the same time. Most recently, Mr. Igiebor was said to be held in Bauchi state, in the north of Nigeria. He suffers from hypertension and his health is poor. Abdul Oroh Mr. Abdul Oroh is executive director of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), one of Nigeria's best known human rights organizations. He was arrested on July 27, 1995, at the offices of the CLO in Lagos, by plain-clothed security police. Mr. Oroh is being held at an SSS holding facility at Alagbon Close in Lagos. Court orders for his release from illegal detention have been ignored. Tunji Abayomi Dr. Tunji Abayomi is founder and chair of Human Rights Africa, a Nigerian human rights group, and counsel to former head of state General Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also currently in prison, as one of the "coup plotters" (see below). He was arrested by plain-clothed security police on July 26, 1995, shortly after holding a press conference at which he had denied that his client, General Obasanjo, had any complicity in the alleged coup plot for which he had just been convicted in a military tribunal. Journalists attending the press conference were also harassed. Dr. Abayomi is also being held at Alagbon Close. The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered that he be released or charged with a criminal offence in the regular criminal courts. Neither of these has occurred. Chima Ubani Mr. Chima Ubani is former secretary general of the Campaign for Democracy and Head of Campaigns at the Civil Liberties Organisation, one of Nigeria's best known human rights groups. He was arrested on July 18, 1995 by seven plain-clothed men from the State Security Service (SSS), at his home in Lagos; The SSS searched his apartment for "subversive documents", and he is apparently held in connection with his human rights and pro-democracy activities. Mr. Ubani is being held at the same Alagbon Close facility of the SSS as Abdul Oroh and Tunji Abayomi. The authorities have ignored a series of court orders demanding that he be produced in court or released from custody. Kebir Ahmed Mallam Kebir Ahmed is chair of the Sokoto state branch of the Campaign for Democracy. He was arrested in his home in Sokoto by a team of plain-clothed and uniformed policemen on March 10,1995. He was questioned in Kaduna in connection with his pro-democracy activities, in particular the distribution of leaflets. Mallam Ahmed is being held in Kirikiri maximum-security prison in Lagos. Shehu Sani Mallam Shehu Sani is the vice-chairman of the Kaduna region of the Campaign for Democracy, an opposition group. He was arrested by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) on March 9, 1995 at his home in Kaduna. He was said to have granted an interview to the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, in which he had said that the Campaign for Democracy would work towards the immediate termination of military rule. Military sources alleged that the date of the interview coincided with the date of the alleged coup plot (see below). Mallam Sani is being held in Kirikiri maximum-security prison in Lagos. On March 27, 1995, the high Court in Ikeja ordered his immediate release from Kirikiri prison, but this order was not obeyed by the authorities. Ayo Opadokun Chief Ayo Opadokun, secretary of NADECO, the National Democratic Coalition, was detained on October 13, 1994 under Decree No. 2, apparently in connection with his activities opposing continued military rule. Like other detainees under Decree No 2, he has been moved around between prisons, and is not allowed visitors, access to lawyers or private medical attention. Frank Ovie Kokori Frank Kokori is secretary general of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). He was arrested on August 20, 1994 by p1ain-clothed security operatives who trailed him to the place in Lagos where he was living in hiding. Chief Kokori was one of the leaders of the two-month oil-workers strike that took place between July and August 1994, to protest the military take-over of one year earlier and to demand a return to civilian rule. Like many of the other detainees, Chief Kokori has been moved around between a number of different prisons, mostly in the north of Nigeria. He has intermittently been allowed to receive visitors, but is reported to be in poor health as a result of diabetes. Court orders that he be produced in court or released from illegal detention have been ignored by the government. RECENT DETENTIONS IN OGONILAND Anyakwee Nsirimovu, executive director of the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL), based in Port Harcourt, and at least 18 supporters of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) were detained for several days in late March and early April 1996. Nsirimovu is a well-known human rights activist who has been active in monitoring and reporting abuses by the security forces in Ogoniland. ... His arrest, on March 27, 1996, followed a raid on the offices of the IHRHL in Port Harcourt during which the security forces were looking for documents. These detentions appear to have been designed to prevent Mr Nsirimovu and the others from giving information to the representatives of the UN Secretary General during their recent mission to Nigeria, in the course of which they visited Ogoniland. The purpose of the UN mission, which was in Nigeria from March 28 to April 12, was to gather information on the trial and execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and the other MOSOP activists and to enable the UN to assess the process of transition to democracy in Nigeria that has been announced by the military government. Nsirimovu and the others were released after the UN left Ogoniland. Kamedi von Dimeari, the president of the National Union of Rivers State Students, was detained for two weeks from January 5, 1996. He had organized a demonstration on December 10, International Human Rights Day, to protest the execution of the Ogoni nine. Before his release, he was taken to the military governor of Rivers State, Lieutenant Colonel Dauda Komo, and threatened with further detention unless he ceased his activities. THE "COUP PLOTTERS" In March 1995, a number of armed forces officers and some civilians were arrested and charged with plotting a coup against the Nigerian military government. In June and July 1995, a military tribunal sat in judgment over 43 individuals charged in the case, including some who had simply publicized information about the arrest and detention of others supposed to be involved in the coup. Those tried were denied legal representation of their choice, there was no appeal procedure, the trial was in secret and the tribunal, consisting only of military officers, was specially constituted to hear the case. In October 1995, the "coup plotters" were sentenced, some of them to death or life imprisonment, although the death sentences were later commuted to terms of imprisonment and the terms of imprisonment reduced, after international appeals. Amongst those still in prison are the following: Beko Ransome-Kuti Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti is chair of the Campaign for Democracy, and a well-known Nigerian campaigner for the restoration of civilian rule. He was arrested by men from the DMI on July 27, 1995, five days after addressing a press conference on the conviction of the alleged coup plotters. He had earlier circulated to some international human rights groups the defense statement of Colonel R.S.B. Fadile, head of the Army Legal Directorate and one of those allegedly involved in the coup plot, He was charged, convicted of being an "accessory after the fact" to treason, having "illegally obtained sensitive documents pertaining to the coup trials which he faxed abroad to his collaborators in the UK and United States in order to subvert and blackmail the Federal Military Government." He was sentenced to life imprisonment, later commuted to 15 years. Dr. Ransome-Kuti is being held in Katsina prison, in the north of Nigeria. He is reportedly currently in very poor health, having been suffering from a fever for several weeks. He has not been permitted to see any other doctor than the prison doctor, nor has he been allowed to consult with lawyers. His family have obtained permission for him to have one visit a month, by his wife or one of his daughters, at which four prison wardens must be present, including the Deputy Controller of Prisons. Otherwise he is held in solitary confinement, and he is not permitted letters. Orders that he be produced in court have been disregarded by the regime. Rebecca Ikpe Rebecca Ikpe is the sister-in-law of Colonel R.S.B. Bello-Fadile. She was also convicted of being an accessory after the fact to treason, as a result of passing Col. Fadile's defense submission to Dr Ransome-Kuti. At the time of her arrest, she was seriously anaemic, requiring iron injections to maintain her health. It is not known whether she is receiving the necessary medical attention for her condition. Christine Anyanwu, Kunle Ajibade, George Mbah and Ben Charles Obi Chris Anyanwu, editor-in-chief and publisher of 'TSM' ("The Sunday Magazine"), George Mbah, assistant editor of Tell magazine, Kunle Ajibade, editor of The News magazine and Ben Charles Obi, editor of Classique magazine, were all sentenced to terms of imprisonment in connection with the "coup plot". The evidence cited against them consisted solely of publishing articles aimed at inciting the public against the Federal Military Government of Nigeria". They are held in various prisons at a distance from Lagos. Kunle Ajibade is reported to be in ill health, suffering from a kidney problem. CHIEF MOSHOOD ABIOLA Bashorun Moshood K.O. Abiola is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which received the majority of votes in the June 12, 1993 election which was supposed to lead to the installation of a civilian government. The election was annulled by former head of state General Babangida, and an interim government installed that was replaced in November by General Abacha in a renewal of military government. One year after the elections, on June 12, 1994, Chief Abiola declared himself president; on June 23, 1994 he was detained and charged with treason. Although others charged with treason at the same time have been released pending trial, he remains in detention to date. His lawyers have appealed against a refusal to grant him bail, but eight of the 12 Supreme Court judges recused themselves following a separate Supreme Court ruling that they should not hear the case, because they were involved in a libel suit against Concord Newspapers, owned by Chief Abiola. No further judges have been appointed by the government, so that the bail application and case itself cannot be heard. Chief Abiola is in poor health, suffering from hypertension and heart problems. He has on many occasions been denied access to visitors, although some official delegations, including the representatives of the UN Secretary General, have been permitted to see him. Kudirat Abiola, the wife of chief Abiola, has campaigned for his release both domestically and internationally. On May 8, she was arrested and charged with "conspiracy to cause misdemeanor and making false publications with intent to cause fear to members of the public." She appeared in court, together with two co-accused (one of who was identified as a printer) and all three were released on bail. ... RECOMMENDATIONS Human Rights Watch urges the Nigerian government to: Immediately and unconditionally release all detainees held under the State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree No. 2 of 1984 and repeal the decree and all other decrees allowing indefinite detention without charge; Immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, Rebecca Ikpe, Christine Anyanwu, Kunle Ajibade, George Mbah, Ben Charles Obi, and others who have been charged with or convicted of offences relating only to the exercise of fundamental rights to freedom of speech and association; Immediately release or charge and try properly before a regular court respecting international standards of due process, the others convicted of involvement in the alleged coup plot; Immediately and unconditionally release Chief Moshood Abiola and withdraw all charges against him and the others charged in connection with their statement criticizing the current government urging the release of Chief Abiola or stating Chief Abiola to be the rightful head of state; Repeal all laws that make it an offence to criticize the government of Nigeria; Immediately release, or charge and try promptly before a regular court respecting international standards of due process, the 19 Ogoni activists held in connection with the same facts as those for which Ken Saro Wiwa and his co-accused were convicted by a special tribunal; Repeal all decrees allowing for the establishment of military or special tribunals to try civilians who are alleged to have committed normal criminal offences; Obey all court orders relating to those in custody: in particular orders for individuals held to be released; produced before court; allowed visitors, access to lawyers or private doctors; removed to hospital where a prison or personal doctor recommends; or permitted reading material; Allow all those held in custody for whatever reason full access to lawyers of their choice, their families and private doctors; Hold detainees and prisoners at locations near to their families; Ensure that conditions of detention and imprisonment are in full compliance with international standards. 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E-mail: apic@igc.apc.org. ************************************************************ umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu May 30 10:33:35 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies" Date: Thu, 30 May 96 12:27:43 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Spiritual Healing Spiritual Healing Rodney c/96 Back in the day when we were freer, times were hard, hope was high. The enemy then we knew, struggle was clearer, light was ever near. Righteous leaders, liberty's merchants, torch held high for all to see. Messages of love, revolution the call, nothing was impossible. Corner Brothers, called to arms, the neighborhood theirs to defend. Sisters, working hard, understood and taught our priorities. Mothers and children, facing dogs and canons, led the charge for liberty. Fathers and daughters, walking the talk, asserted our dignity. Freedom now, not tomorrow, justice now not delayed. We, knowing the plan, understood why we couldn't wait another day Community asserted unity, family dictated struggle continuously. Country preachers taught us well, urban leaders fought the battles. Workers, disdaining sellout checks, marched on the front lines. Minstrels, music for better days, blessed saviors singing justice songs. Lawyers, pushing civil rights, worked into the night -legal briefs for liberty. Students, reading from those books, rallied sit-ins breaking conformist mold. By any means necessary the constant charge, learn, yearn, earn the battle cry. Selfish ambitions put on hold, solidarity crossed lines of old. Grandmas love sustained us all, our souls were heal, our hearts made true. Grandpas shoes, shined for that day, marching up the street Broadway. Merchants gave what they could, children the quest understood. Poets pens, ink not dry, championed visions with fresh rhymes. Rebel calls stirred the dreams, valiant warriors pursued the battle. Hope, liberty, justice brewed, spiritual healing ensued. umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From united@antenna.nl Fri May 31 09:03:41 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:27:51 +0200 To: united@antenna.nl From: united@antenna.nl (UNITED) Subject: CALENDAR 6/96 --========================_14717634==_ Dear friends, Herewith we send you the latest Calendar of Internationalism as an attached file. We hope you will make good use of it. Also available from the secretariat: - The report of the Europe-Wide Action Week against Racism 16-24 March 1996 - The report of the last UNITED conference "Break the blocks.Practical European Networking Against Nationalism" 14-18 February in Prague (CZ). Keep sending us information on your activities, about deaths of refugees trying to enter Fortress Europe and about detention centers for refugees and illegal immigrants around Europe! With best wishes, Saskia Daru --========================_14717634==_ Calendar of Internationalism 6/96 UNITED for Intercultural Action - Postbus 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam 17.05.96-21.06.96 "Sport Contest of Romanian Human Rights Organisations" Every Weekend in Bucharest (RO) organised by As. Student. de Lupta Impotr=EEva Rasismului d=EEn Romania and = others =46ootball, basketball, chess and bridge between teams from ASLIR, Democrati= c Union of Hungarian Youth in Bucharest, Youth Department of Jewish Communities in Romania, Union of African Students in Romania... contact: ASLIR, Dr. Burghelea 10 A, RO-Bucuresti sect. 2, phone +40-1-3125097, fax +40-1-3113374, e.mail aslir@pcnet.pcnet.ro 28.05.96-02.06.96 "Nationalism in Europe" International Conference in Wien (A) Only for youngsters who are involved in the National Campaign Committees organised by Austrian National Campaign Commission / All Different - All Equ= al Themes: nationalistic attitudes, legislation, national identity, changes of geographical borders, insecurity, roots and cause of nationalism, work against nationalistic legislation... contact: Austrian Nat. Camp. Comm., Praterstrasse 70/13, A-1020 Wien, phone +43-1-214449914, fax +43-1-214449910, e.mail europarat@blackbox.at 28.05.96-02.06.96 "Meeting the Intercultural Challenge" International Congress in Muenchen (D) organised by Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research Themes: research, education, training, community interaction... contact: SIETAR, c/o Uni Jyvaeskylae/Dep.Comm. POB 35, SF-40351 Jyvaeskylae, phone +358-41-601531, fax +358-41-601541, e-mail sietareu@jyu.fi 30.05.96-02.06.96 "Europe Moves to the Right - Social Psychological Reasons for Radical Right-Wing Attitudes" =46rench-German Seminar in Chantilly (F) organised by Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit Themes: political situation in Europe, experiences from other countries, social-psychological aspects, perspectives of common activities... contact: Fraenkische Bildungswerk fuer Friedensarbeit, Hessestrasse 4, D-90443 Nuernberg, phone +49-911-288500 31.05.96-02.06.96 "Literature, Freedom of Media, and Human Rights in Islamic Societies and Countries" Meeting in Rehburg-Loccum (D) contact: Evang. Akademie Loccum, Postfach 21 58, D-31545 Rehburg-Loccum Summer 1997 "Tolerance and Peace" - International Summer Camp in Poland 1000 participants from all European Countries organised by Polish National Committee for the European 'All Equal - All Different' Campaign contact: Campaign against RAXI, c/o Sofokles - PO Box 2242, PL-54414 Wroclaw 47, phone +48-71-723058, fax +48-71-723058 June 1996 "Racism and Solidarity" - International Seminar in Krakow (PL) organised by European Good Templar Youth Federation Themes: prejudices, racism, xenophobia, intolerance, multicultural identities, minorities, nationalism, ethnicity... contact: EGTYF, Markveien 35C, N-0554 Oslo, phone +47-22385807, fax +47-2238= 0371 01.06.96 "Action With Refugee Children in Refugee Centre Vic" - in Ljubljana (Slo) organised by Drustvo za prostovoljno delo most workshops, sport, activities... contact: MOST, Breg 12, SLO-61000 Lubljana, phone +386-61-217208, fax +386-61-1258067 02.06.96 "Openings Manifestation Festival Mundial - One World...One Future" - International Music Festival in Tilburg (NL) organised by Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking international music, composing competition 'Brabant as a Multicultural Province'... contact: COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 04.06.96-05.06.96 "Refugees: the Future in Europe After 1996?" - International Conference in Lisbon (P) Themes: European asylum policy within the framework of the EU conference on the reform of the Maastricht Treaty, reception conditions to asylum seekers and refugees at the national and European level... contact: Conselho Portugu=EAs para os Refugiados, CPR, Rua Viriato 27-2=B0 A= , P-1050 Lisboa, phone +351-1-3159847, fax +351-1-3537692, e.mail cpr@mail.telepac.pt 04.06.96-06.06.96 "Ideas of Tolerance in Central Asia and Problems of Early Prevention of Conf= licts" International Conference in Bishek (Kyrgyz) Themes: tolerance as the factor of keeping interethnic and inter confessional consort, migration processes, political and social stability, human rights... contact: National Commission of the Kyrgyz Republik for UNESCO, Sovetskaya Str. 208, Bishek, Kyrgyz, fax +3312-226922, e.mail Kyrgyz@aol.com 05.06.96-14.06.96 "Everyday Racism" German - Finnish Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfachf 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 07.06.96 "Listen Without Prejudice" - International Conference in London (GB) organised by BBC Radio 1 FM Themes: to devise a 'charter for best practice in portraying young people in all their diversity on air', encourage European broadcasters to participate in listen without prejudice 1997, multicultural programming... contact: BBC, Broadcasting House, GB-London W1A 1AA, phone +44-171-7655003, fax +44-171-7650368 07.06.96-09.06.96 "Living in Exile - Going Back to the Unknown?" - Conference near Berlin (D) Themes: future perspectives for civil war refugees from Ex-Yugoslavien... contact: Evangelische Akademie Berlin-Brandenburg, Goethestrasse 26-30, D-10625 Berlin, phone +49-30-3191297 07.06.96-09.06.96 "Youth Violence in Germany - A Normal Attitude in Industrial Societies or Sign for Crisis?" Conference near Berlin (D) Themes: right-wing extremism and neo-fascism as usual explanation for violent young people in Germany... contact: IBC Bogensee, phone +49-33397-64171 07.06.96-09.06.96 "Asylum Laws and Foreigner Laws" - Conference in Brandenburg (D) Themes: legal situation, regional differences, counselling asylum seekers and foreigners... info: phone +49-331-2800786 08.06.96 "Graensloesa Festival" - Anti-Racist Festival in Stockholm (S) with 20 music bands, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, children's activities, happenings, films... contact: Hasans vaenner - mot v=E5ld och rasism, Box 34, S-12921 Haegersten, phone +46-8-979899, fax +46-8-979899 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Violence, Racism and Anti-Racism Among Young People" - Training in Germany contact: Arbeit und Leben DGB/VHS Berlin, phone +49-30-2119007 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Reality and Perspectives of the European Integration, Securing the Human Rights in Europe" EU-Study-Trip to Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussel contact: Deutschen Gesellschaft, Phone +49-30-204258 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Europe in the 1990s: Creating a Common European Identity?" International Seminar in Thessaloniki (GR) Themes: a united Europe, identity shaping aspects, language, culture, religion, political thoughts... contact: Young European Federalists, JEF, 1 place du Luxembourg, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5120053, fax +32-2-5126673, e-mail Jef.Europe@agora.stm.it 09.06.96-16.06.96 "Festival Mundial 1996 - One World...One Future" - International Music =46estival in Tilburg (NL) voices of the world, new folk / roots evening, music groups from all over the world, information, international food, children games, dancing... contact: Centrum voor Internationale Samenwerking, COS/VWW, Stationsstraat 39, NL-5038 EC Tilburg, phone +31-13-5431335, fax +31-13-5437096 10.06.96-12.06.96 "Youth Work in a Multicultural Society - Problems and Practical Initiatives" - Seminar in Vlotho (D) contact: Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 13.06.96 "Living in the 'Integration House'" - Conference in Wien (A) Themes: presentation of the work, psychological care, social work, kindergarten, language courses, leisure time activities, vocational courses... contact: Gesellschaft Kritischer Psychologinnen und Psychologen, GkPP, Kolingasse 9/4, A-1090 Wien 13.06-14.06.96 "Speak Out for Refugees' Rights" Offensive for a 'Harmonisation of European asylum Laws' on the Basis of Safe Refuge under Humanitarian Conditions International Meeting in the European Parliament, Bruxelles (B) for all organisations and politicians interested in active support for refug= ees organised by UNITED with the support of many NGOs and the Green Group and the Socialist Group in the EP 12 important speakers will discuss with the participants on: =46ortress Europe, economic justice and migration, hot spots of human tragedies, protection for war refugees, harmonisation of the governments, amnesty for "illegal" immigrants, protection of asylum seekers, minimum demands for asylum procedures, direct support for (illegal) refugees, demands of Basso-Tribunal, possibilities for cooperation=8A send nominations to: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 13.06.96-15.06.96 "Refugees Traumatised by Torture and War" - Training in Bern (CH) contact: Uni Bern, phone +41-31-6313928, fax +41-31-6313360 14.06.96-16.06.96 "To Misuse the Right of Hospitality Means no More Protection?" - Seminar in Walberberg/Bonn (D) Themes: deportation after imprisonment with practitioners from prison and po= licy contact: Pax Christi, H.P. Hauschild, Weimarerstr. 27, D-10625 Berlin 14.06.96-20.06.96 "Me and the Other - Youth From Germany and France Discuss About Prejudices and Racism" German - French Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Int. Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax 2436450 until 15.06.96 "Without Invitation...a Journey Not Like the Others" - Interactive Exhibition and role game in Bruxelles (B) organised by Centre d'Initiation pour Refugies et Etrangers This project will allow its visitors to 'live' the journey of an asylum see= ker contact: CIRE, 205 chaussee de Wavre , B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6441717, fax +32-2-6468591 15.06.96 "All-Day Activities in the Centre of Ljubljana" - in Slovenia organised by Drustvo za prostovoljno delo most and lots of people from other organisations With refugees, musicians, artists, debates... contact: MOST, Breg 12, SLO-61000 Lubljana, phone +386-61-217208, fax +386-61-1258067 15.06.96 "When Solidarity Becomes a Crime" - Manifestation in Paris (F) organised by Anti Racist Organisations in France Themes: against the Toubon law that criminalises help to illegal foreigners.= .. info: MRAP, 89 rue Oberkampf, F-75543 Paris CEDEX 11, phone +33-1-4314853, fax +33-1-43148350 15.06.96-07.07.96 "Sura Za Africa - Faces of Africa Festival '96" - Cultural events and Seminars in Wien and other cities in Austria Themes: relation Africa - Austria... Contact: Sura Za Afrika '96, Favoritenstrasse 29-31/28, A-1040 Wien, phone +43-1-5032510 or 43-1-7133594/75 16.06.96 "International Refugee Day" Around this day dozens of activities will be organised by many refugee support organisations taking part in the UNITED Refugee Campaign. The actions will have a decentralised character. Themes: European-wide asylum policy, deportation and detention, deaths through Fortress Europe... information at UNITED for Intercultural Action, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 16.06.96 "Street Actions for Refugees" - in Helsinki (SF) contact: Finnish Antifa Coalition, Kalevankatu 1, SF-08100 Lohia, e.mail hraita@sockom.helsinki.fi 16.06.96 "International Refugee Day" - Day of Activities in Newcastle (GB) Bands, speakers, balloons, face painting... organised by North East Campaign for Asylum Rights, Tyne & Wear Anti-Fascist Association, Newcastle Law Centre, Youth Against Racism contact: TWAFA, c/o 4 the Cloth Market, GB-Newcastle NE1 1EA, phone +44-191-2221660, fax+44-191-2210259 16.06.96-23.06.96 "Shabaab Akaliyat" - International Youth Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by the Council of Europe Minority Youth Committees and the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation Themes: social exclusion, diversity, intercultural education from a minority perspective... contact: CEMYC, Postbus 9683, NL-2003 LR Haarlem, phone +31-255-537438, fax +31-10-4353978 or IGLYO, Postbus 542, NL-1000 AM Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6188172, v31-20-6188172, e.mail iglyo@intex.ie 19.06.96 "Asylum Seekers - We and the Others" - Training in Zuerich (CH) contact: Fortbildung Asylorganisation Kanton Zuerich, phone +41-1-2913290, fax +41-1-2913277 20.06.96 "Asylum in Germany - Education Seminar for Full Time and Voluntary Workers from Asylum Counselling Agencies" - Seminar in Vlotho (D) organised by Jugendhof Vlotho, Oeynhausenerstr. 1, D-32602 Vlotho 21.06.96-23.06.96 "Europe and the Unknown - The Development of Attitudes and Perception in the History of our Culture" Conference in Rehburg-Loccum (D) organised by Evangelische Akademie Loccum contact: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Muenchehaeger Strasse 6, D-31547 Rehburg-Loccum, phone +49-576-6810, fax +49-576-681188, e.mail 100567.505@Compuserve.Com. 21.06.96-23.06.96 "Foreigners Among Germans - Germans Among Foreigners" - Intercultural Meeting in Germany contact: Arbeitskreis Entwicklungspolitik - Bildungswerk, AKE, Horstweg 11, D-32602 Vlotho, phone +49-5733-6800, fax +49-5733-18154, e.mail ake_e.v.@bionic.zerberus.de until 22.06.96 "Anti-Racism Boat" Educational Boat Tour along 25 Dutch cities Themes: exhibition about racism and the struggle against it through the ages, information from anti-racism organisations, art project... contact: Magenta, phone +31-20-6236756, fax +31-20-6235929, e.mail mag2@euronet.nl School Zonder Racisme, Willemstraat 59, NL-5611 HC Eindhoven, phone +31-40-2359999, fax +31-40-2445712, e.mail migrant1@pi.net 22.06.96-24.06.96 "Anti G7 Summit" - Alternative Summit in Lyon (F) organised by dozens of French anti-racist organisations Themes: against the consequences of the globalisation of the economy: unemployment, poverty and racism... contact: MRAP, 89 rue Oberkampf, F-75543 Paris CEDEX 11, phone +33-1-4314853, fax +33-1-43148350 22.06.96-29.06.96 "Who's the Target!?" - Week of Events in Maloja (CH) Themes: exclusion, xenophobia, racist violence... Contact: Stiftung Salecina, CH-7516 Maloja 25.06.96 "Intercultural Aspects of Credibility Estimation" Training for lawyers in Bern (CH) contact: Schweizerische Fluechtlingshilfe, SFH, Postfach 8154, CH-3001 Bern, phone +41-31-3707575, fax 3707500 26.06.96-05.07.96 "4th Session of the Provisional World Parliament" - in Innsbruck (A) Including 02-04.07.96 Youth Assembly Themes: human rights, development... contact: Wereld Federalisten Beweging Nederland, WFBN, Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indie 252, NL-2593 CD Den Haag, phone +31-70-3478196, fax +31-70-3825254, e.mail WFBN@WFBN.APS.NL 27.06.96-29.06.96 "Asylum in Europe" - International Symposium in Wien (A) organised by Asylkoordination OEsterreich, SOS Mitmensch and others Themes: asylum without Europe, Schengen, Dublin, minimum standards, Austria in the EU, lobbying in the EU, perspectives... contact: Asylkoordination OEsterreich, Trattnerhof 2/14, A-1010 Wien, phone +43-1-5321291, fax +43-1-5337752, e.mail asylkoordination@link-atu.comlink.de 27.06.96-30.06.96 "Local Pilot Projects Against Racism and Intolerance" International Seminar in Bonn (D) organised by Gustav-Streseman-Institute in the frame of the All Different - All Equal Campaign Themes: evaluating the pilot projects which the Council of Europe has supported, recommendations for future projects... contact: European Youth Campaign against Racism, Xenophobia=8A, RAXI, c/o Conseil de l'Europe, =46-67075 Strasbourg CEDEX, phone +33-88-412960, fax +33-88-412742, e.mail 100706.3343@compuserve.com 28.06-30.06.96 "Communication Skills" UNITED - Training Session in Romania for Anti-Nationalist and human rights activists in Romania Themes: conflict resolution, media work, dealing with authorities... organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action, Students' Association for Struggle against Racism (ASLIR) and Youth Action for Peace (YAP-MCP) contact: ASLIR, Dr Burghelea 10A, sect. 2 Bucharest, Romania, phone +40-1-3125097, fax3125097 or YAP-MCP, PO Box 457, RO-3400 Cluj, phone +40-64-194623, fax +40-64-192474 28.06.96-06.07.96 "With an Eye on Germany- Youngsters Discuss Cultural Differences & the Meaning of the Holocaust in the 90s" 17.11.96-26.11.96Dutch - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Int. Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig,phone +49-531-243640, fax 2436450 30.06.96-05.07.96 "Germany - Drifting to Right Wing?" - Grass-Roots Summer School in Guestrow = (D) Themes: racism, links between anti-racism and anti fascism, future of anti fascism and anti-racism... contact: Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versich. Thueringen, HBV, Angelo Lucifero, Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-659980, fax +49-361-6599899 30.06.96-07.07.96 "Searching for Traces in Europe - Long-Term Effects of Fascism" - International Conference in St. Andreasberg (D) Themes: planning of the Holocaust, health policy, visit of former KZ Mittelbau Dora, culture in fascism... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 July 1996"Network Development Focusing on Youth Issues in the Roma, Gypsy and Traveller Communities in Europe" International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, Platf. de Juvenes Gitanos da Aragon, Otherness Foundation.. Themes: build mutual support systems, European structures, strengthen beliefs in their cultures... contact: Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, 697 Attercliffe Road, GB- Sheffield, phone +44-114-2444377 July 1996"Round Tables on Refugee Issues" - in Slovenia organised by Young Liberal Democrats and Young Greens contact: MLD, trg Republike 3-VII p.p. 651, SLO-61000 Lubljana, phone +386-61-1256106, fax +386-61-1256150 July 1996"Fight Against Nationalism and All Kinds of Discrimination" - International Renovation Camp in Maribor (SLO) organised by Drustvo za prostovoljno delo most contact: MOST, Breg 12, SLO-61000 Lubljana, phone +386-61-217208, fax +386-61-1258067 01.07.96 "Poverty and Migration" - Training in Zuerich (CH) contact: Fortbildung Asylorganisation Kanton Zuerich, phone +41-1-2913290, fax +41-1-2913277 01.07.96-05.07.96 "Refugee Community Health Care" - International Course in Great Britain contact: International Health Exchange, Africa Centre, 38 King Street, GB-London WC2E 8JT 01.07.96-26.07.96 "Forced Migration and Humanitarian Assistance" - International Summer School in Oxford (GB) for experienced managers, administrators, fieldworkers involved in programmes of assistance and/or policy making in the humanitarian field Themes: broad theoretical background to forced migration and assistance in practice, effectiveness of aid programmes, aspects of forcible displacement=8A contact: Refugee Studies Programme, RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 01.07.96-26.07.96 "Social Rights an Integral Part of Human Rights" - in Strasbourg (F) 27th Annual Study Session of the International Institute for Human Rights 24th Session of the International Centre for University Human Rights Teachin= g organised by Institute International des Droits de l'Homme contact: IIDH, 1 quai Lezay-Marnesia, F-67000, Strasbourg, phone +33-88-350550, fax + 33-88-363855 05.07.96-12.07.96 "Lets Get Organised" - International Conference in Budapest (H) organised by International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation Themes: human rights, international youth work... contact: IGLYO, Postbus 542, NL-1000 AM Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6188172, fax 6169017, e.mail iglyo@intex.ie 05.07.96-26.07.96 "International Antifascistic Work Camp" - in Emlichheim (D) organised by Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig Young people from various countries do research on causes and structures of fascism and produce documents in Emlichheim where former concentration camp prisoners had to do heavy work. contact: SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax 264234, e.mail sci-d-bonn@oln-s21.oln.comlink.apc.= org 07.07.96 "Asylum-Seekers, Refugees and Racism: Debunking the Myths and Stereotypes" Conference in London (GB) organised by Spiro Institute for Study of Jewish History and Culture Themes: history of immigration, diminishing rights to asylum, refugees and media, effective parliamentary lobbying, practical support, detention, far right and refugees... contact: Spiro Inst. for Study of=20Jewish History and Culture, c/o King's College - Kidderpore Av., GB-London NW3 7SZ, phone +44-171-4310345, fax +44-171-4310361 07.07.96-13.07.96 "Human Rights and Citizenship: Approaches to Teaching and Learning" International Training Session in Geneva (CH) organised by International Training Centre on Human Rights and Peace Teachin= g Themes: legal and educational aspects of human rights conventions, non violent resolution of conflicts, to network with other human rights educators... contact: CIFEDHOP, 5 rue du Simplon, CH-1207 Geneva, phone +-41-22-7352422, fax +41-22-7350653 08.07.96-26.07.96 "57th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Gen=E8ve 10, phon= e +41-22-9173965 09.07.96-12.07.96 "Roma Studies" - International Conference in London (GB) for those who work for Travellers and/or Roma organised by University of Greenwich contact: Thomas Acton, School of Social Science, phone +44-181-3318923, fax +44-181-3318905 14.07.96-13.08.96 "International Work Camp in a Refugee Camp" - in Berlin (D) Themes: preparing leisure-time offers for Roma children and youth and refugees from Bosnia, Palestine and Albania... contact: Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig, SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 16.07.96-26.07.96 "Information, Communication, Freedom of Speech and Expression in an Intercultural Europe" International Workshop in Strasbourg (F) Themes: minorities, interculturalism, use and misuse of information, freedom of speech... contact: Europe at School, Bachstrasse 32, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-7290040, fax +49-228-695734 17.07.96-19.07.96 "Migration and Minorities" International Conference in Lisboa (P) organised by the Youth Commission of International Union of Family Organisat= ions Speakers will be representatives of European Commission, WHO, IUSY, IFLRY, ATD Quart Monde... Themes: promote solutions to the integration of migrants and the need to guarantee them basic human rights... contact: IYC, Rua de Sao Marcal 77, P-1200 Lisboa, fax +351-1-3460554 20.07.96 "Unite Against Racism - Free Summer Festival" A day celebrating racial diversity through music, entertainment and fun in the Finsbury Park, London (GB) organised by the Trade Union Congress and others contact: TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, GB-London WC1B 3LS, phone +44-171-6364030, fax 6371823 20.07.96-22.07.96 "Human Rights & Education for Mutual Understanding & Democratic Participatio= n" Summer School in Derry (NI) Themes: examine the role of education in building societies with democratic values and respect for human rights... contact: Fortnight Education Trust, FET, Chris Moffat, 7 Lower Cresent, Belfas BT7 INR, phone +44-1231-236575 21.07.96 "National Day Against Racism" - in Slovakia contact: Minority Rights Group, Bajkalska 25, SK-82708 Bratislava, phone +42-7-5233164, fax +42-7-5214534 21.07.96-10.08.96 "International Antifascistic Work Camp" - in Hamburg-Neuengamme(D) organised by Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig Work at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Neuengamme and learning of the history and the structure of the concentration camp. contact: SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 22.07.96-28.07.96 "The Power of Solidarity" - World Festival 1996 in Bonn (D) organised by International Union of Socialist Youth 4000 young socialists and social democrats from all over the world will have political, cultural and social activities contact: IUSY, Neustiftgasse 3, A-1070 Wien, phone +43-1-5231267, fax 52695849, e.mail IUSY@blackbox.ping.at 26.07.96-17.08.96 "Remember - Meet - Understand - Planning the Future" - International Youth Camp in Dachau (D) Contact: Kreisjugendring Dachau, Augsburgerstrasse 46, D-85221 Dachau, fax +49-8131-79244 27.07.96-30.07.96 "Envisioning Human Rights Education" - 2nd International Pedagogic Peace-Conference in Lillehammer=20(N) organised by Paedagoginnen und Paedagogen fuer den Frieden Contact: Kornhaug Norwegian Peace Center, Postboks 73, N-2620 Follebu, phone +47-61-220964, fax +47-61-223008 28.07.96-10.08.96 "Constructive Resistance and Defence of Human Rights" - 3rd International Seminar in Millau (F) dedicated to Isidore Yatassallah Nodjinaye contact: Le Cun du Larzac, pour une resolution non-violente des conflits, route de St. Martin, F-12100 Millau, phone +33-65-606233, fax +33-65-613326 28.07.96-13.08.96 "Securing Traces - Against the Oblivion" - International Anti fascistic Bike Tour from Berlin to Schwerin (D) =46ollowing the death-route of the concentration camp prisoners. Themes: historical fascism and racist and fascist tendencies today... contact: Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig, SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 29.07.96-02.08.96 "Indigenous Populations" - 14th International Working Group in Geneva (CH) organised by Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, CH-1211 Gen=E8ve 10, phone +41-22-91734= 13 until 30.07.96 "Quite Enough for That! All Against Violence" - Campaign in Spain Themes: acts against violence and intolerance, support to victims of violence, spreading of bulletins, radio programs and educational materials against racism and violence, cooperation with different NGO's... contact: Plataforma J=F3venes contra la Intolerancia-Secr.Tecnica, PJCI, c/ Larra 16-2=B0 izda., E-28004 Madrid, phone +34-1-5944920, fax +34-1-4452707 August 1996"Annual Meeting of Black People Living in Germany" International Conference in Windischeschenbach near Hof (D) 250 people will meet! contact: ADEFRA Muenchen, Baaderstrasse 30, D-80469 Muenchen, e.mail adefra.munich@amazonas.comlink.apc.org 01.08.96-15.08.96 "German - Italian Antifascistic Work Camp" - in Woebbelin (D) Work at the memorial site of former concentration camp Neuengamme/Woebbelin contact: Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig, SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 01.08.96-19.08.96 "Arte Diem - Tolerance Amongst the European Youth Using Culture as a Tool for Awareness Raising" International Seminar in Belgium organised by Youth Action for Peace Themes: prepare performances for an international festival on all different ideas about promoting tolerance in Europe, by the means of literature poetry, theatre, dance, music and visual arts... contact: YAP/MCP, 3 avenue du Parc Royal, B-1020 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-4789410, fax +32-2-4789432 03.08.96-10.08.96 "Human Rights: an International Legal Perspective" - International Seminar in Salzburg (A) contact: Salzburg Seminar, Schloss Leopoldskron, Box 129, A-5010 Salzburg, phone +43-662-839830, fax +43-662-839837, e.mail info@fc.salsem.org 05.08.96-19.08.96 "International Antifascistic Work Camp" - in Dachau (D) organised by Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig Work in the former concentration camp Dachau and at a Jewish cemetery. contact: SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 03.08.96-11.08.96 "Living With Your Neighbour in Multiethnic States" International Walking Tour through Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the =46ederal Republic of Yugoslavia organised by Pax Christi Youth Forum - International 03.08.96-04.08.96 "Opening Weekend in Budapest" 05.08.96-09.08.96 "Sub-routes in Hungary, Romania, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugosla= via" 10.08.96-11.08.96 "Closing Weekend in Szeged" Themes: mutual understanding, rights of minorities, tolerance... contact: PCYF, 21, rue du Vieux Marche aux Grains, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5025550, fax +32-2-5024626 05.08.96-19.08.96 "European Anti-Racist Anti-War Tour and Youth Exchange" 10.08.96-12.08.96 "Summer Camp" - in Frankfurt (D) 18.08.96-19.08.96 "International Youth Conference" - in Strasbourg (F) for 16-19 years old and youth organisations interested in combating racism= and militarism in Europe coordinated by School Campaign Against Militarism Themes: treatment of immigrants, combating Holocaust revisionism, controls on youth, joint activities and discussions in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Strasbourg... contact: SCAM, 3/4 Dakota Buildings, James Street, GB-Birmingham B3 1SD,phone +44-121-2330970, fax +4713854 05.08.96-30.08.96 "48th Session - Subcommission on Human Rights" contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, J. Pace, CH-1211 Gen=E8ve 10, phone +41-22-9171093 09.08.96-11.08.96 "Differences Between Ideal and Reality - Does the Imagination of the Home Country of Afro-Asian Academics Change by Long Studies in Germany?" Conference for African and Asian students and academics at German universities in Kassel (D) contact: Arbeitskreis Afrikanischer-Asiatischer Akademikerinnen, Theodor-Heuss-Str. 11, D-37075 Goettingen 09.08.96-17.08.96 "Youth Dialogue Program" - in Istanbul (TR) organised by Helsinki Citizens Assembly Turkey Themes: European citizenship, Europe & NGOs, integration from below, Europe & civic involvement.. contact: Ebru Kunt, fax +90-212-2464946 10.08.96-25.08.96 "International Antifascistic Work Camp" - in Buchenwald (D) organised by Service Civil International - Deutscher Zweig Young people will work in the former concentration camp Buchenwald and at the memorial site. contact: SCI, Bluecherstrasse 14, D-53115 Bonn, phone +49-228-212086, fax +49-228-264234, e.mail SCI-D-BONN@OLN-S21.OLN.comlink.apc.org 11.08.96-18.08.96 "Contact to Minorities" German - Hungarian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 14.08.96 "Start of the Trial Against 17 Assumed Members of the Autonome Antifa (M)" (foreseen)contact: Autonome Antifa (M), c/o Buchladen Rote Strasse 10, D-37073 Goettingen, phone +49-551-394569, fax +49-551-394564, e.mail aam@paxo.nadir.org 15.08.96-21.08.96'How to Handle Violence" - German-French Seminar in Cun du Larzac (F) contact: Fraenkisches Bildungswerk fuer friedensarbeit e.V., Hessestr. 4, D-90443 Nuurnberg, phone +49-911-288500, fax +49-911-288514 18.08.96 "Racism Beat It 1996" Annual Pop-Festival in recreation area Spaarnwoude near Amsterdam (NL) contact: Pop Against Racism, Nieuwe Kerkstraat 37, NL-1018 DX Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6277766, fax +4205446 21.08.96-23.08.96 "Gross Human Rights Violations: Prevention, Intervention, Punishment" International Conference in Essex (GB) organised by Human Rights Centre contact: Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, GB-Colchester CO4 3SQ, phone +44-1206-873333, fax +44-1206-873598 24.08.96-07.09.96 "Ethno-Religious Tolerance as a Prerequisite for Social Work; An Example - Bulgaria" International Seminar in different cities in Bulgaria organised by Youth Express Network Themes: theoretical and practical consideration of a multi-cultural and multi-religious society... contact: Youth Express Network, 16 rue du Chateau d'Angleterre, F-67300 Schiltigheim, phone +33-88-620998, fax +33-88-371936 25.08.96-14.09.96 "Peoples Diplomacy - Non-Violence and Migration" International Course in Rovereto (I) organised by International University of Peoples Institutions for Peace Themes: peoples diplomacy, non-violence, human costs of migration, legal aspects of migration, economics of migration, non-violent resolution of the ethnic conflicts in Trentino Alto Adige... contact: IUPIP, c/o Opera Campana dei Caduti, Colle di Miravalle, I-38068 Rovereto (TN), phone +39-464-434412, fax +39-464-434084 25.08.96-31.08.96 "The Right to be Different Today in a Building European Society" International Seminar in Czech Republic organised by European Union of Jewish Students Themes: relation between Jews and European neighbours through history, Jew's legal status (civil rights, emancipa-tion), implication of new politics towards national groups... contact: EUJS, 89 chaussee de Vleurgat, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6477279, fax +32-2-6482431 26.08.96-30.08.96 "Fortress Europe? Policy of Asylum, Migration and Integration in the European Union" Seminar especially for foreign scholarship holders in Bonn (D) contact: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Godesberger Allee 149, D-53175 Bonn, phone +49-228-8830, fax +49-228-833396 26.08.96-06.09.96 "The International Protection of Human Rights" International Conference in Turku/=C5bo (SF) contact: =C5bo Akademi University / Institute for Human Rights, Gezeliusgata= n 2, SF-20500, =C5bo/Turku, phone +358-21-2654713, fax +358-21-2654699, e.mail johanna.bondas@abo.fi 27.08.96-31.08.96 "Health Promotion for Older Migrants" International Conference in Heidelberg (D) organised by Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg and the European Network on Ageing and Ethnicity Themes: models of health promotion on an international basis, implications for a European network of health promotion for older migrants... contact: G. Conrad, Uissigheimer Strasse 10, D-97956 Gamburg, phone +49-9348-1381, fax +49-9348-1360, e.mail paas@urz.uni-heidelberg.de 27.08.96-01.09.96 "The Role of the Mediator in a Cross Cultural Conflict" International Seminar in Trysil (Norway) organised by European Educational Exchanges - Youth for Understanding Themes: solving conflicts between immigrants and autochtones, peaceful conflict solving... contact: EEE-YFU, Van Geertstraat 69, B-2140 Borgerhout, phone +32-3-2360636, fax +32-3-2361457 28.08.96-31.08.96 "Children's Culture" International Meeting in Kopenhagen (DK) Their will be 800 participants! organised by Royal Danish School for Pedagogical Studies Themes: culture of children in an intercultural world... contact: Forum on children's culture, 101 Emdrupvej, DK 2400 Kopenhagen NV, phone +45-39696633, fax +45-39660063 31.08.96-08.09.96 "Racism and Right-Wing Extremism in Germany and Italy - No Way Out?" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 September 1996"Non-Violence - the Road to a Peaceful Europe" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by Federation of Young European Greens Themes: conflict prevention and resolution, conflict in the Balkans, non-violence... contact: FYEG, 12, rue Charles VI ,B-1030 Bruxelles, fax +32-2-217529 01.09.96-08.09.96 "Network Development of Roma Youth Groups" International Training Course in Budapest (H) organised by Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, Platforma de Jovenes Gitanos de Aragon, and others Themes: youth issues in the Roma, Gypsy and traveller communities in Europe.= ... contact: Sheffield Gypsy & Traveller Support Group, 697 Attercliffe Road, GB-Sheffield, phone +44-114-2444377 08.09.96 "Racial Justice Sunday" - in Great Britain contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice. 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.09.96-13.09 96"Reconstructing Livelihoods Towards a New Model of Resettlement for Development Displacees and Refugees" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: separation between studies of disaster-related refugees and studies of populations uprooted by development projects... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 10.09.96-12.09.96 "Tolerance and Intolerance" International Conference in Southampton (GB) organised by Centre for the Study of Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish peoples at the University of Southampton Themes: Jewish/non Jewish relations, patterns of toleration, 'aliens' then and now, religion, tolerance and intolerance, fighting intolerance... contact: Sian Jones, Dep. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Highfield, GB-Southampton SO17 1BJ, phone +44-1703-592202, fax +44-1703-593032 11.09.96-15.09.96 "Youth and Global Governance" International Youth Conference in Wienacht (CH) organised by the European Baha'i Youth Council Themes: history of global governance forms,=20national sovereignty in a= global community, human rights, world citizenship, moral leadership... contact: EBYC, 53 Ravenscroft Avenue, GB-Wembley MDX. HA9 9TE, phone +44-181-9045127, fax +44-181-9041280, e.mail bahsoc@sable.ox.ac.uk 12.09.96-14.09.96 "Asylum Policy in Europe Part 2. - New Challenges for Solidarity Work with Refugees" International Conference in Driebergen (NL) =46or people who do refugee work in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands organised by Evangelische Akademie Muelheim, Stichting Kerk en Wereld and ot= hers Themes: European asylum policy, asylum procedures, protection of refugees, deportation, perspectives, perspectives of human asylum policy, common strategies... contact: Kerk en Wereld, Postbus 19, NL-3970 Driebergen 12.09.96-15.09.96 "Regulating Europe: Criminology, Care & Control" International Conference in Bangor (GB) organised by European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control University of Wales Themes: new European order, exclusion, marginalisation, criminalisation, police co-operation, Europe and the Schengen Agreement, institutional violence, controversial deaths, deaths in custody, asylum seekers in detention... contact: Centre for comparative Criminology & Criminal Justice, Chris Powell, School of Sociology & Social Politicy, University of Wales, Bangor, North Wales, LL57 2 DG, phone +44-1248-382839, fax +44-1248-362029, e.mail c.powell@bangor.ac.uk 12.09.96-15.09.96 "Human Rights and Democracy - A World-Wide Project or Old Fashioned?" Conference in Arnoldshain (D) contact: Kommitee fuer Grundrechte und Demokratie, Bismarckstr. 40, D-50672 Koeln, phone +49-221-523056, fax +49-221-520559 13.09.96-15.09.96 "Political and Economical Racism" Training Seminar in The Netherlands Themes: refugees politics... contact: de Vrije Golf, Hooghuisstraat 29c, 5611 GS Eindhoven, phone +31-40-2438796 14.09.96-15.09 96"Asylum in a Frontier-Free Europe" International Course in Oxford (GB) organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: recent developments of the European Commission/Court of Human Rights and Committee on the UN Torture Convention, application of the Schengen and Dublin Conventions across Europe... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 14.09.96-22.09.96 "7th International Summer School on Human Rights" International Conference in Warsawa (PL) organised by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights contact: Helsinska Fundacja praw Czlowieka - Helsinki Committee Poland, ul. Bracka 18 m. 62, PL-00028, Warszawa, phone +48-22-296996, fax +48-22-6281008, e.mail hfhrpol@ihp.atm.com.pl 16.09.96-20.09.96 "Re-Thinking Psycho-Social Interventions" International Course in Oxford (GB) for those who design, implement and fund programmes in the field of mental health organised by Refugee Studies Programme Themes: trauma of violent conflict and forced displacement, cultural relativity, targeting particular types of trauma, present a social development framework... contact: RSP, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles, GB-Oxford OX1 3LA, phone +44-1865-270722, fax +44-1865-270721, e-mail RSP@QEH.OX.AC.UK 20.09-22.09.96 "Fundraising" UNITED - Training Session in Praha (CZ) for anti-nationalist and human rights activists in the Czech Republic organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action and DUHA Rainbow Association Themes: international resources, national government subventions, sponsorship, writing applications, lobbying funders, networking... contact: UNITED - Praha Office / DUHA, Senovazne nam. 24, CZ-11647 Praha 1, phone +42-2-24102469, fax +42-2-24102375, e-mail rok@p7.f66.n.420.z2.fidonet= ..org 24.09.96-27.09.96 "Constitutional and Legal Issues Concerning Protection of National Minoritie= s" International Conference in Warsaw (PL) organised by OSCE - Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights contact: ODIHR, Krucza 36 / Wsp=F3lna 6, PL-00522 Warszawa, phone +48-2-6257040, fax +48-2-6254357, e.mail odihrosc@atos.warman.com.pl 24.09.96-28.09.96 "Refugee Day" =46ive One-Day-Seminars in Thueringen (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: reasons for refuge, ethnic conflicts, civil wars, ex-Yugoslavia, asylum policy in Germany and Europe... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 27.09.96-29.09.96 "Securing Human Rights in the World" Seminar in Freudenstadt (D) contact: Fritz-Erler-Akademie der FES, Postfach 2 40, D-72232 Freudenstadt 29.09.96-05.10.96 "All Together for Justice" Intercultural Week / Week for Foreigners in Germany organised by churches, migrant organisations, Stiftung Mitarbeit... contact: Stiftung Mitarbeit, Bornheimer Strasse 37, D-53111 Bonn, phone +49-228-630023, fax +49-228-695421 October 1996"Multicultural Societies: The Case of Switzerland" International Seminar in Switzerland organised by International Christian Youth Exchange - Europe Themes: Swiss situation as study case, understand consequences of a multicultural Europe... contact: ICYE, Naamsesteenweg 164, B-3001 Leuven, phone +32-16-233762, fax +32-16-295099 Oct / Nov 1996"Domination and Liberation in the New World Society: Racism - Migration - Self-Organisation" Conference in Germany organised by Bundeskongress Entwicklungspolitischer Aktionsgruppen Themes: ethnic conflicts, migration as social movement, self-organisation as alternative to integration... contact: BUKO, Nernstweg 32-34, D-22765 Hamburg, phone +49-40-393156, +49-40-3907520 04.10.96-12.10.96 "Local, National, European - How Many Homes do we Need?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 05.10.96 "Christian Racial Justice Forum" =46orum in Manchester (GB) contact: Churches Commission for Racial Justice, 35-41 Lower Marsh, GB-London SE1 7RL, phone +44-171-6204444, fax +44-171-9280010 09.10-13.10.96 "Europe United! - Cooperation Against Nationalism and Racism" UNITED - Conference in Stockholm (S) organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 10.10.96-11.10.96 "2nd Meeting of the Specialist Group on Roma / Gypsies" International Conference in Strasbourg (F) organised by Conseil de l'Europe Themes: human rights, discrimination and violence, training of police, legal advice, building of good community relations, educating and culture... contact: Co-ordinator for Activities Concerning Roma/Gypsies, c/o Conseil de l'Europe, John Murray or Francoise Kempf, F-67075 Strasbourg CEDEX, phone +33-88-412167, fax +33-88-412742, e.mail 100706.3343@compuserve.com 13.10.96-20.10.96 "Present and Future Role of Minority Women in Europe" International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by Young Women from Minorities Network as a follow up of the "All Different - All Equal" campaign Themes: intercultural challenges and opportunities, European networks and solidarity, exchanges and discussions, analysis of methods and approaches to play a role in their community... contact: WFM, c/o Nadia Banno, Multicultural Centre, Vaerdshusvaegen 46, S-14785 Tumba, phone +46-8-53062569, fax +46-8-53062550 16.10.96-17.10.96 "Local Immigration for Migrants" International Conference in Strasbourg (F) organised by Agence pour le Developpement des Relations Interculturelles Themes: fighting against discrimination, living together in local environment, local citizenship for immigrants... contact: ADRI, 4 rue Rene Villerme, F-75011 Paris, phone +33-1-43484919, fax +33-1-43482517 20.10.96-26.10.96 "Violence and Racism" =46rench - German Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) Theatre role games... contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 20.10.96-27.10.96 "Citizenship-Citoyennete-Staatsbuergerschaft: The Identity and Mobility of= Young People in Europe" International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) or Budapest (H) organised by European Federation of Youth Service Organisations Themes: search for identity, difficulty of mobility, place in society and in associations... contact: EFYSO, 3, rue Recamier, F-75341 Paris CEDEX 07, phone +33-1-43589797, fax +33-1-43589788 20.10.96-27.10.96 "Racism and Discrimination Here - A Multicultural Society Elsewhere. How Different are our Societies?" German - English Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 21.10.96-08.11.96 "58th Session - Human Rights Committee" - in Geneva (CH) contact: UN Centre for Human Rights, E. Tistounet, CH-1211 Gen=E8ve 10, phon= e +41-22-9173965 26.10.96-02.11.96 "Youth Without Borders - Working for International Understanding" International Seminar in Lublin (PL) organised by World Organisation of Young Esperantists Themes: nationalism, internationalism, youth campaigning for international understanding... contact: TEJO, Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, NL-3015 BJ Rotterdam, phone +31-10-4361044, fax +31-10-4361751 November 1996"Dialogue....Towards Cooperation with and Between the Countries of Former Yugoslavia" (foreseen)International Seminar in Strasbourg (F) organised by Council of European National Youth Committees Themes: tolerance, conflict resolution and reconciliation, future actions... contact: CENYC, 517-519, chaussee de Wavre, B-1040 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6489101, fax +32-2-6489640, e.mail CENYC@blackbox.ping.at November 1996"60th Anniversary of the Defence of Madrid Against the Fascists= " International Meeting in Madrid (E) November 1996"The Borders of Europe - A Human Scrapyard?" International Seminar in Hungary organised by Service Civil International Themes: campaign for fairer legislation and policies, develop concrete actions, mobilise the voluntary services in Central and Eastern Europe, fight for refugee's rights... contact: SCI, European Office, Draakstraat 37, B-2018 Antwerpen, phone +32-3-2359473, fax +32-3-2352973, e.mail SCISEED@SCI.KNOOPPUNT.BE 03.11.96-10.11.96 "The Balkans and the Right to Refuse to Kill" International Seminar in Budapest (H) organised by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection Themes: non-violence, conscientious objectors in Western Europe and in the Balkans.. contact: EBCO, 35, rue Van Elewyck, B-1050 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-6485220, fax +8400774, e.mail ebco@ gn.apc.org 06.11.96-12.11.96 "Intercultural Awareness" International Seminar on Cyprus organised by World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts contact: WAGGGS, Olave Centre - 12c Lyndhurst Road, GB- London NW3 5PQ, phone +44-171-7941181, fax +44-171-4313764 07.11.96-09.11.96 "Broadcasting for a Multicultural Society" 8th European Television and Film Forum in Amsterdam (NL) and the first award ceremony of the Prix Iris, media awards for a multicultural Europe organised by European Institute for the Media and Anti Discriminatie Overleg contact: European Institute for the Media, Kaistrasse 13, D-40221 Duesseldor= f, phone +49-211-9010479, fax +49-211-9010456 9.11.96 "Commemoration of the Kristallnacht - International Day Against =46ascism and Antisemitism" Joint campaign of anti-fascist, anti-racist, human rights and Jewish organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network. The main focus will be on the persecution of Jews and the denial of the worsening situation of refugees and Roma as well as the situation of (ethnic) minorities, gays and handicapped people. UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 09.11.96 "Anti-Semitism and Racism in Past and Present" Commemoration Day in Erfurt (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. Themes: memorial activities, history, racism and anti-semitism... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 11.11.96-15.11.96 "Don't Call us Zigeuner/Gypsies" Seminar in Koeln (D) organised by OEkologie-Stiftung Themes: Roma and Sinti in Germany... contact: OEkologie-Stiftung NRW, Union Gewerbehof - Huckarder Str. 12, D-44147 Dortmund, phone +49-231-7214082, fax +49-2317214085 19.11.96-24.11.96 "Refugee and Immigration Policies" International Seminar in Bucharest (RO) organised by International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth Themes: history of migration, case studies, situation and rights of refugees and migrants, the right of asylum, how to improve the situation of refugees and migrants... contact: IFLRY, PO Box 781, B-1000 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-5124457, fax +32-2-5024122, e.mail IFLRY@unicall.be 22.11.96-24.11.96 "Anti-Semitism" Seminar in Berbra-Weiterode (D) organised by DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V. in cooperation with IG Metall Themes: anti-semitic attitudes in Germany, history of anti-semitism after 1945... contact: DGB-Bildungswerk Thueringen e.V., Juri-Gagarin-Ring 150, D-99084 Erfurt, phone +49-361-5961394, fax +49-361-5961444 27.11.96-06.12.96 "The Typical and the Unknown - Europe Between Integration and Exclusion" German - Italian Youth Meeting in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 01.12.96-06.12.96 "The Citizen and the Police in Europe" German - English Conference in St. Andreasberg (D) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 Dec 96/ Jan 97"UNITED-Conference in Bratislava" (Slovakia) (foreseen) organised by UNITED for Intercultural Action Delegates from Central and East European anti-nationalist and human rights organisations will meet with their Western counterparts to discuss common strategies for action= .. contact: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl 08.12.96-13.12.96 "Intercultural Communication" German - English Training for youth and social workers in St. Andreasberg (D= ) contact: Internationaler Arbeitskreis Sonnenberg, Postfach 2654, D-38016 Braunschweig, phone +49-531-243640, fax +49-531-2436450 1997 "European Year Against Racism" proposed by European Commission to the European Council=20 info: UNITED, Postbus 413, NL-1000 AK Amsterdam, phone +31-20-6834778, fax +31-20-6834582, e-mail united@antenna.nl or Commission of EU DG V - Assistance to NGO's for Migrants=8A, B3-4110, 200 rue de la Loi, B-1049 Bruxelles, phone +32-2-2991111, fax +32-2-2950138 17.08.97-21.08.97 "Violence and Human Coexistence" World Congress in Dublin (IRL) organised by Department Sociology / University College Dublin Theme: violence and the future of society, human rights, minority rights and ethnic relations, culture and violence... contact: Jessica Bates, Dept. Sociology / University College Dublin, Belfield, IRL-Dublin 4, fax +353-1-7061125, e.mail jess.bates@ucd.ie 1996 "Sessions of the european Parliament" in Strasbourg and Bruxelles 05-06 June (Brux) 17-21 June (Strasb) 03-04 July (Brux) 15-19 July (Strasb) 04-05 September (Brux) 16-20 September (Strasb) 21-25 October (Strasb) 11-15 November (Strasb) 27-28 November (Brux) 09-13 December (Strasb) 1996-2003 "EU Presidencies" 1996 Italy, Ireland 1997 Netherlands, Luxembourg 1998 Britain, Austria 1999 Germany, Finland 2000 Portugal, France 2001 Sweden, Belgium 2002 Spain, Denmark 2003 Greece --========================_14717634==_ ********************************************************* UNITED for Intercultural Action European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees Postbus 413 NL-1000 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands tel.no. +31-20-6834778 fax.no. +31-20-6834582 e-mail united@antenna.nl ******************************************************** Speak out for refugees rights! 16 JUNE 1996 International Refugee Day ******************************************************** --========================_14717634==_--