Berhane Tewolde's Development Blog

To reach an article (until end of 10/2009, after you’ll find direct links), go to ARCHIVES in the left column of the front page and click on the month/year (exemple: for Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, click on September 2008, and scroll down until September 1st, 2008):

2007
====

10/2007

• Berhane Tewolde-Medhin – Geneva-Switzerland

11/2007

• UNITED NATIONS Press Release – SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF CONCLUDES VISIT TO ANGOLA

12/2007

• United Nation Press release – HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CELEBRATES THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, PROMOTING DECENT WORK
• 60th ANNIVERSARY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• UN WORKING GROUP ON ARBITRARY DETENTION CONCLUDES ITS 50th SESSION.
• … ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND OTHER COMMITTEES DEALING WITH GENDER EQUALITY
• Telecommunications to save lives
• UN/GENERAL ASSEMBLY, statement on the terrorist bombings in Algeria
• SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS

2008
====

04/2008

• Registration to Cluster of WSIS Related Events
• Tchad’s Environnement

08/2008

• First session of the Advisory Committee of the HRC
• Social Forum 2008
• Georgia: the aid effort continues
• UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous people concludes visit to Brazil
• RIGHTS PANEL CONCERNED
• OHCHR calls for restraint in Indian administered Kashmir

09/2008

• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• RALLYE DES NATIONS – Découvrir le Genève International
• Opening Satement of Human Rights Council HRC
• United Nations Multimedia Services
• Invitation to meeting with HRC President

10/2008

• Available documentation – OHCHR …
• Statement by 13 UN experts on global Detention Initiative
• On promises to fight racism and intolerance
• Minority Forum, 15-16 Dec. 2008: Invitation
• NGO Statement, Agenda Item 4: GENERAL DEBATE
• McCain and The Evil Empire
• The Durban Review Conference 2009

11/2008

• Seminar on Women’s and Girl’s Rights in Islam
• J’ai refusé l’excision de ma fille à Genève
• UN Experts’ Call on Italy
• Investing in sanitation is investing in human dignity
• UN human rights chief calls for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza
• ITU launches initiative to protect children online
• Combating impunity vital in effort to eliminate violence against women
• Violence against Iraqi women continues unabated
• Slavery is not history
• Accreditation to the 8th special session of the HRC on 28-11-2008
• 8TH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE HRC AT 3 PM
• Les hommes libres – DOGMA 6, la force de la femme
• Keeping the Promise: Human Rights and AIDS

12/2008

• United Nations Human Rights Prize 2008
• UN Mission in Iraq issues human rights
• UNPAN News Alert – November 2008
• MARKING THE 60 YEARS …
• Financing People-Centered Development
• Missed opportunities in Doha …
• Somalia: UN expert gets the human rights picture …
• Forum on Minority Issues
• Accreditation to the Commemorative session
• Closing a historic gap in human rights
• CAT (Convention against Torture), 41st session (3-21 Nov 2008)
• Nicaragua: confirming land ownership for indigenous group
• UN experts welcome the closing of Guantanamo Bay

2009
====

01/2009

• process of negotiations … of the Durban Review Conference
• Workplan ISWG, meeting with NGOs on 20 January 2009
• Policy Brief No.5 – Financial Crisis
• HRC’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group

02/2009

• Universal Periodic Review UPR of the Human Rights Coucil HRC

03/2009

• 10th session of the HRC of 2 to 27 March 2009

04/2009

• Human Rights Education … at the 10th session of the UN Human Rights Council
• In Geneva – emergency accommodation …
• Ripples of change through human rights education
• Vacancy: Librarian with OHCHR Methodology, Education and Training Unit (Geneva)
• the Durban Review Outcome Doc

05/2009

• Report on the right to education of persons in detention
• Online collaborative teaching tool by Teaching and Learning for Peace Foundation
• E-Business and Poverty Alleviation
• HRE curriculum guide for schools in South Africa now available
• Vacancy: Africa HRE Project Manager with Amnesty International
• ICT for development in India
• CHR chief seeks help of teachers
• ITU Telecom World 2009
• ITU Telecom World 2009
• OHCHR opens new regional human rights hub in Doha

06/2009

• Pavilion Power at WORLD 2009
• UN’s HR – Calendar of Meetings 2009
• World Program for Human Rights Education WPHRE

08/2009

• Advisory Committee discusses draft Declaration on human rights education and training
• Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
• Vacancy, Kabul: Human Rights Education Consultant
• UNESCO’s Slave Route project seeks to clarify consequences of slave trade
• Climate Change and Development – Global Responses and Policy Challenges

09/2009

• Parallel Meetings to the 12th Session of the HRC
• Arab Intellecual Property website
• Last Human Rights Council’s general debates

10/2009

• The Arab Coalition for Darfur
• NGO Statement to the Ad Hoc Committee on Complementary Standards
• Stoppez les affiches racistes

*****

Since 11/2009 and following months:

• 2009-11-03: e-learning course: Introduction to Human Rights Education;
• 2009-11-04: The HREA e-Learning Centre offers new courses;
• 2009-11-07: Making the world a better place;
• 2009-11-08: Annual Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education;
• 2009-11-08: Online workshop – The Reckoning: Understanding the International Criminal Court;
• 2009-11-10: Short Course on International Human Rights Law;
• 2009-11-10: La Lettre d’information de la LDH n°27;
• 2009-11-11: Call for COMMITMENTS to be anounced at CONNECT CIS;
• 2009-11-12: Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study CELS – 2001 to 2010;
• 2009-11-17: Cours de formation sur le système universel des droits humains et le plaidoyer;
• 2009-11-18: UHRIC campaign shares HRE teaching materials;
• 2009-11-19: OHCHR: Fellowship programme for national human rights institutions;
• 2009-11-20: Global Education Newsletter – Fall 2009;
• 2009-11-24: Launch of Portal for Human Rights Schools;
• 2009-11-24: World Food Summit;
• 2009-11-25: Vacancy: ERRC seeks human rights trainer, Budapest;
• 2009-11-27: Every Woman Has a Story, Every Story Can Create Change;
• 2009-11-27: Marché de Noël artisanal;
• 2009-11-28: DEBITO.ORG’s NEWSLETTER of November 25, 2009;
• 2009-11-30: Rencontre avec Fawzia Assaad;
• 2009-11-30: HREA distance learning courses – February-April 2010;
• 2009-12-02: DEVELOPMENT: Global Challenges Require Innovative Partnerships;
• 2009-12-03: The End of Poverty?
• 2009-12-04: Invitation to online forum on discrimination in education;
• 2009-12-06: South Africa: International Human Rights Exchange;
• 2009-12-06: RIGHTS-TURKEY: Jailing Kurdish Children to Undermine Dissent;
• 2009-12-07: My Cry from the Islands of Blood;
• 2009-12-07: Sudan: A Forgotten Refugee Problem;
• 2009-12-08: Central Africa: Great Lakes Nations to Send War Crimes Suspects to ICC;
• 2009-12-09: Working Paper: Understanding Violence;
• 2009-12-10: HR education for human rights educators;
• 2009-12-10: Veillée climatique (Climate Vigil);
• 2009-12-11: Mineurs isolés étrangers: quelle protection?
• 2009-12-12: Guinea: Nation Faces ‘Explosive’ Military Infighting, Says Rights Expert;
• 2009-12-13: Journal of Human Rights Education launched;
• 2009-12-14: World Peace conference;
• 2009-12-21: Somalia: entrapped in another year of deadly insurgency;
• 2009-12-22: Supply and Demand: Arms Flows and Holdings in Sudan;
• 2009-12-23: Uganda: fear over gay death penalty plans;
• 2009-12-24: Call for expression of interest;
• 2009-12-25: UN Imposes Sanctions on Eritrea;
• 2009-12-26: More oil, less migrants;
• 2009-12-27: Independent Appeal: Africa’s Schindler;
• 2009-12-28: Linux Fund and FOSSFA to Join Forces;
• 2009-12-29: The Rise Of Judicial Activism: Is Democracy Under Threat?
• 2009-12-29: African Internet and Telecoms Information;
• 2009-12-30: RWI National Human Rights Institution Fellowship (Lund);
• 2009-12-30: Rights Groups Want Congo Back on UN Watch List;
• 2009-12-31: Ending the year … lost two more colleagues;
• 2009-12-31: Racial bursary agreement;
• 2009-12-31: No, We’re Not a Broken People;
• 2010-01-01: Africa Action Talking Points on a New U.S.-Sudan Policy;
• 2010-01-01: Liberia: More TB Sufferers Coming Forward;
• 2010-01-02: Requests for Information: 7 – 27 December 2009;
• 2010-01-02: MINARETS EN SUISSE – LE CHOC D’UNE VOTATION;
• 2010-01-03: HRE for human rights educators;
• 2010-01-03: African women and the Internet;
• 2010-01-04: La lettre d’information de la LDH n°29;
• 2010-01-04: System change not climate change;
• 2010-01-05: The eternal traveller;
• 2010-01-05: Egypt: Rooftops Empower the Poor;
• 2010-01-06: 10 years of the WSF, from Porto Alegre to Dakar;
• 2010-01-06: As deadline approaches, Obama speeds up Guantánamo Bay closure;
• 2010-01-07: Flaws in key Lockerbie evidence;
• 2010-01-07: Do we need to say our prayers?
• 2010-01-08: TANZANIA: Addressing Energy Crisis Through Alternatives and Efficiency at Household Level;
• 2010-01-08: AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing … ;
• 2010-01-09: Multi-Asset exchange for Africa?
• 2010-01-09: Dennis Brutus: An ironclad sense of solidarity;
• 2010-01-10: Locally made movie raises awareness of human trafficking;
• 2010-01-10: Rescuing the Peace in Southern Sudan;
• 2010-01-10: Vernissage du peintre Al Wahibi;
• 2010-01-11: Direct participation in creativity;
• 2010-01-11: Africa: SMS Uprising – Mobile Activism in Continent;
• 2010-01-12: Future Foods;
• 2010-01-12: Call for Action on the Elections of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
• 2010-01-13: Development tops UN chief’s priorities for 2010;
• 2010-01-13: 2010 International Legal Studies Internship Program;
• 2010-01-14: Africa Matters;
• 2010-01-14: Pro-transgender development: Challenges posed by religious extremism;
• 2010-01-15: Training program for indigenous advocates;
• 2010-01-16: Programme de formation en droits de l’homme du Collège universitaire Henry Dunant (Genève);
• 2010-01-17: Reframing the Aid Debate;
• 2010-01-18: L’agenda culturel arabe;
• 2010-01-19: Violence against women;
• 2010-01-20: Joint WIPO-ITU Accessibility Workshop;
• 2010-01-21: Kenya: Clause on Spouses’ Equality Struck Out;
• 2010-01-22: 2010-2011 Public Interest Law Fellowship Program;
• 2010-01-23: Policy Report: Africa Policy Outlook 2010;
• 2010-01-24: Report on linking Holocaust education and HRE to be presented to European education ministers;
• 2010-01-25: Call for applications for International Leadership Forum (Storrs, 6-14 August 2010);
• 2010-01-26: La lettre d’information de la LDH n°30;
• 2010-01-27: Somalia: Tougher controls on military assistance needed;
• 2010-01-28: Statement to the COMESA Summit;
• 2010-01-29: Health Care in War Zones and Countries Affected by Conflict;
• 2010-01-30: Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide and the 2010 Elections;
• 2010-01-31: Haiti: The Hate and the Quake;
• 2010-03-24: Requests for Information – for two past periodes;
• 2010-03-25: Emerging powers in Africa Watch;
• 2010-03-26: NGO Management School Switzerland: April-May Courses in Geneva;
• 2010-03-27: Requests for Information: 01 – 22 March 2010;
• 2010-03-28: Quiet corruption undermining African development;
• 2010-03-29: UGANDA: Almost one million at risk in Karamoja;
• 2010-03-30: US aid Partners with Swedish Development Agency;
• 2010-03-31: Call for Action – Elections Committee on ESCR by ECOSOC;
• 2010-04-01: Shoot the Boers: Deflecting attention from new songs of protest;
• 2010-04-02: Child Poverty in Africa – the facts;
• 2010-04-03: Life in Tin Can Town;
• 2010-04-03: Invitation to EXECUTIVE BRIEFING on WSIS FORUM 2010;
• 2010-04-04: Africa: Killer Diseases of Continent’s Poor;
• 2010-04-05: Let’s Put an End to Public Debt Blackmail;
• 2010-04-06: Witch-hunts then – and now;
• 2010-04-07: The Opium Wars in Afghanistan;
• 2010-04-08: Essentials of NGO Management – Course on Bohol Island, Philippines;
• 2010-04-09: Irish Centre for Human Rights 2010 Summer Schools;
• 2010-04-10: Call for applications for the International Interdisciplinary Course on Children’s Rights 2010;
• 2010-04-11: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia;
• 2010-04-12: Reporting on the Horrors and the Hope of the Congo;
• 2010-04-13: The Uncomfortable Silence;
• 2010-04-14: The Next Stage of Human Evolution;
• 2010-04-15: HRE Highlights from the UN Human Rights Council 13th session;
• 2010-04-16: Launch of EWC database for people;
• 2010-04-17: Kenya: Digital Villages Project Rolled Out;
• 2010-04-18: Very Small is Beautiful for the Majority of Our People;
• 2010-04-19: INCORE’s 11th International Summer School;
• 2010-04-20: India takes on chairmanship of ITU Council for 2010;
• 2010-04-21: Youth Wage Subsidy and the Spectre of a Two-tier Labour Market;
• 2010-04-22: The end of a few tough years – part 3;
• 2010-04-23: 2010 Human Rights Summer Program at Columbia University;
• 2010-04-24: ERRC seeks applicants for the 2010 Roma Rights Summer School;
• 2010-04-25: Rwandan President Paul Kagame wants a safer Rwanda;
• 2010-04-26: Dialogue des cultures;
• 2010-04-27: World Cup 2010 and the Legalisation of Sex Work: Postulations and Expostulations;
• 2010-04-28: South Africa – a deal gone wrong?
• 2010-04-29: Mobile Phone Projects in Zambia Creates Wealth for Women;
• 2010-04-30: Celtel Zambia And OneWorld Africa Equips Grassroot Women;
• 2010-05-01: Guantanamo: The Omar Khadr Case;
• 2010-05-02: Policy Space to Prevent and Mitigate Financial Crises in Trade and Investment Treaties;
• 2010-05-03: Revisiting Economic Man;
• 2010-05-03: ALF C7 on e-business, Interactive Panel Debate on ICT and rural enterprise;
• 2010-05-04: Wake Up and Smell the System;
• 2010-05-05: REDD: Seeing the forest for the trees;
• 2010-05-06: Madagascar’s hidden crisis: Women’s rights and human rights abuses;
• 2010-05-07: HREA Courses and Infos;
• 2010-05-08: OHCHR and Guinea sign agreement for presence;
• 2010-05-09: REGARDS CROISES DE GENEVE ET D’AILLEURS;
• 2010-05-09: Protecting investors, but what about the people?
• 2010-05-10: New Colonialism: Pentagon Carves Africa Into Military Zones;
• 2010-05-11: The international significance of the Greek general strike;
• 2010-05-12: Africa: escaping the slums;
• 2010-05-13: Guinea waits for change;
• 2010-05-14: Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth;
• 2010-05-14: Graines de Paix recrute sa/son chef-fe de Programme Education à la Paix;
• 2010-05-15: Exploring Humanitarian Law Summer Institute;
• 2010-05-16: Request for information from UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education;
• 2010-05-17: WWSF World Campaign 2010 – prevention of abuse & violence against children;
• 2010-05-18: Haiti PM calls on int’l community to deliver aid soon;
• 2010-05-19: Sudan: The elections and beyond;
• 2010-05-20: Conspiracy Against Non-Violent Resistance Movements In Orissa;
• 2010-05-21: Community Radio Takes On Gender and World Cup;
• 2010-05-22: Russia-America Relations: Rediscovering Realpolitik;
• 2010-05-23: Human Rights Council OHCHR – 14th session Geneva, 31 May – 18 June 2010;
• 2010-05-24: Syria: Martin Ennals Award announces Muhannad Al-Hassani as Laureate for 2010;
• 2010-05-25: A Virulent Outbreak of Rational Thought;
• 2010-05-26: Salva Kiir sworn in as Southern Sudan president;
• 2010-05-27: Brazil launches international TV station for Africa;
• 2010-05-28: South Africa: An unfinished revolution?
• 2010-05-28: Week-end international des 5 et 6 juin 2010 à Genève;
• 2010-05-29: Practical information for the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs;
• 2010-05-30: Iran Was Not What We Had Thought;
• 2010-05-31: Conference on Educating for Human Rights, Peace and Intercultural Dialogue;
• 2010-06-01: NTP Review Conference 2010;
• 2010-06-02: Washington, Moscow, Beijing and the Geopolitics of Central Asia – Part II;
• 2010-06-02: La société malade de la gestion;
• 2010-06-03: UNHCR’s Annual Consultations with NGOs;
• 2010-06-04: 2011 application for the Human Rights Advocates Program;
• 2010-06-05: Requests for Information: 24 – 30 May 2010;
• 2010-06-06: Ghana: CHRAJ rolls out human rights programme for basic schools;
• 2010-06-07: Request for young learners’ work in Human Rights Education HRE;
• 2010-06-08: America’s Spiritual Suicide;
• 2010-06-09: Unarmed and Courageous;
• 2010-06-10: BURKINA FASO: Young girls at risk as they join exodus to cities;
• 2010-06-11: Beware bigotry: Free speech and the Zapiro cartoons;
• 2010-06-12: … Niger’s Fight against Hunger;
• 2010-06-13: Our Black World;
• 2010-06-14: World Day Against Child Labour 2010;
• 2010-06-15: Ford Foundation Initiative to Tackle HIV Crisis in United States;
• 2010-06-16: Violence in Kyrgyzstan;
• 2010-06-17: China on verge of signing nuke deal with Pakistan: Expert;
• 2010-06-18: The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration;
• 2010-06-19: Feeling Locked Out of the American Dream?
• 2010-06-20: What do BP and the Banks Have In Common? The Era of Corporate Anarchy;
• 2010-06-21: Towards a global development strategy;
• 2010-06-22: AFRICA: Fighting the double whammy of obesity and hunger;
• 2010-06-23: AFRICA: Not spending enough on food;
• 2010-06-24: Is Human Trafficking a Problem in Namibia?
• 2010-06-25: U.S. strategy in Eurasia and drug production in Afghanistan;
• 2010-06-26: Requests for Information: 07 – 20 June 2010;
• 2010-06-27: Nigeria: Civil Society Groups Call on State Governments Not to Resume the Execution of Prisoners;
• 2010-06-28: Toward a new Alexandria;
• 2010-06-29: Afghanistan: Funding both sides;
• 2010-06-30: Nutrition Investment Will Save and Improve Lives;
• 2010-07-01: Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI Project, Part 2;
• 2010-07-02: Revolving Door Spins Quickly Between Congress, Wall Street report;
• 2010-07-03: Elephants are afraid of bees;
• 2010-07-04: New Zealand tragedy;
• 2010-07-05: Speaking truth on behalf of Ethiopia’s youth;
• 2010-07-06: Malaria in Africa;
• 2010-07-07: AMREF cautiously welcomes G8 commitment to maternal and newborn health;
• 2010-07-07: Israeli Mother Addresses European Parliament;
• 2010-07-08: Millennium Goals Revisited;
• 2010-07-09: Results of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development;
• 2010-07-10: New UN handbook seeks to ensure quality education for children in conflict;
• 2010-07-11: Iranians still facing death by stoning despite reprieve;
• 2010-07-12: PM urges society to unite against terrorism;
• 2010-07-13: Students’ Perspectives on Schooling;
• 2010-07-14: The new geopolitical importance of Lubmin;
• 2010-07-15: MADRE Presents Report to UN Human Rights Committee on the Situation in Colombia;
• 2010-07-16: HAND Welcomes the Arrest Warrant against Omar Al Bashir on charges of Genocide;
• 2010-07-17: US penalizes provision of humanitarian aid to groups it dubs terrorist;
• 2010-07-18: CrimeKiller of Russian human rights activist Estemirova identified – Medvedev;
• 2010-07-19: Americans Don’t Flinch – They Duck;
• 2010-07-20: World Population Day July 11, 2010;
• 2010-07-21: Food sovereignty in Africa: The people’s alternative;
• 2010-07-22: On the necessity of a land tax;
• 2010-07-23: Land Grab in Africa;
• 2010-07-24: Tutu, 78, to bow out of public life;
• 2010-07-25: Latest documents advocating the ban of depleted uranium DU;
• 2010-07-26: Requests for Information: 05 – 18 July 2010;
• 2010-07-27: Global Education Newsletter Nº 73 – Summer 2010;
• 2010-07-28: Return of the glut;
• 2010-07-29: Viewpoint: Is kidnapping easy money?
• 2010-07-30: British politicians and media dismiss WikiLeaks details of Afghanistan war crimes;
• 2010-07-31: Alternatives to negotiating sovereign debt;

*****

See also our long existing pages:

• people by first name;
• PEOPLE BY COUNTRY;
• All NGOs sorted alphabetically;
• All NGOs sorted chronologically.

And see our just new created pages:

• New page on Economy and Society: all articles sorted chronologically;
• New page on Humanitarian Texts: all articles sorted chronologically;
• New page on KASHMIR and IDPs: all articles sorted chronologically;
• New page on Geopolitical Analysis: all articles sorted chronologically;
• New page on History – Past and Present: all artic les sorted chronologically;
• New page on Berhane Tewolde’s Development Blog: all articles sorted chronologically;
• New page on Mein privater Garten: all article sorted chronologically;
• New page on Heidi Barathieu-Brun: all articles sorted chronologically.

Further find on the blog History – Past and Present:
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 1;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 2;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 3;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 4;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 5;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 6;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 7;
Baharistan-i-Shahi – Chapter 8.