1. We seem to run out of space, suddenly: Canada cut the access of Czech Roma seeking refuge here
2. Chinese repression in Xinjiang: the Han steamroller is moving towards the road of silk
3. The summit of the Non-aligned: the annual meeting of the empty shell
4. The game of partisan politics: a return on general election Lebanon last month
5. Andréanne Baribeau will speak live from Rwanda on access to water in the district of Rubavu
VISA CANADA CZECH
After weeks of intense diplomatic maneuvering between Prague and Ottawa, Canada has finally implemented its threat , Tuesday, July 14.
To stem the influx of asylum seekers from the Czech Republic - mostly Roma - The Canadian government has reinstated the requirement for Czech citizens to obtain a visa before visiting the countries. The center
human rights of the Roma community which was established in September 1997 after the unexpected arrival of over 3,000 original Czech Roma refugees in Canada
was the first time in the history of Canadian immigration that so many people over such a short period are arrived seeking refugee status. So
Roma said they were fleeing persecution due to their ethnic identity
And since the arrival of Roma refugees of Czech origin, others of which are Roma arrived from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and of the former Yugoslavia.
There are between 250,000 and 300,000 Roma in the Czech Republic, it is the second largest minority after the Slovak and Roma experience discrimination against them has long
In recent years the Roma in the Czech Republic are experiencing increased discrimination in education, employment, housing and the health system
And an increase in attacks racially motivated
So with his bad developments, the issue of Roma Rights drew the attention of the international community
While Roma immigration to Canada and GB began around 1997 after the Czech Television has placed a story showing that these countries more accepting of these countries the Roma
Over 5,000 Roma from Eastern Europe settled in the regional Toronto with more than 60,000 living in Canada today
In general, over the years 1980 the number of refugees could settle successfully in Canada was 21 000 per year ...
During the last decade that number has dropped to 11 000 ... But
Czech Republic neo-Nazi demonstrations and multiplies the pogroms against Roma also
Between the years 2008 and 2009 85% of Czech Roma have been accepted as a refugee in Canada
the Committee on Immigration and Refugees had sent two officers in the Czech Republic in March to see what happens there
In their report, officers found that the Roma are often not protected by the government and face discrimination from the local police, despite the supposed programs to improve relations between police and minorities
The Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said after reading the report that the Roma minority in the Czech Republic did not face discrimination promoted by the state
He added that the republic Czech is a member of the EU therefore subject to European laws on human rights ...
But a 2006 study indicates that more and more Roma live on the margins of society, unemployed, with little chance to find, so with a very difficult life that awaits
It begs the question ... For our part ... who wants to live in a society where 90% of members of the majority to say you hate your ethnic origin?
XINJIANG
Chinese authorities have launched a massive crackdown against the political nature of the Uighur community in Xinjiang
The government has deployed at least some 20,000 troops in and around the city of Urumqi, the regional capital, where violence broke out July 5, 2009, after what originally appeared to be a peaceful demonstration by Uighur students.
state and local authorities have also announced they will seek the death penalty against the protest organizers and perpetrators of violence.
Twenty-four hours after the outbreak of violence, Chinese officials have accused the former political prisoner of the Xinjiang region, Kadeer, for planned and organized events.
No evidence was provided to substantiate these accusations she dismissed them.
Chinese leaders have also brought many unsubstantiated accusations against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and also against the U.S. Congress, blamed for the protests.
Although the government has said that among the 156 people killed 35 were Uighurs, he neither spoke nor disseminated information on violence against this group.
Furthermore, the role that security forces have played at events July 5, has not been clearly established.
The government has not specified the nature of the means used by its security forces to prevent acts of violence perpetrated by different groups,
nor discussed the role they played in the repression of demonstrations and riots, or indicate whether the force used was appropriate.
The government announced that over 1400 people have been arrested since July 5.
Although security officials have said that all detainees were arrested during the unrest,
some sources claim that the police combed neighborhoods and Uighur men arrested after the protests.
The state media have also reported arrests and published photos of wanted persons, all Uighurs.
They would be accused of "disturbing" that took place near the station, July 7, two days after the last riots reported.
the substantial strengthening of the security device, arbitrary arrests and the non-compliance evoke many memories.
They recall not only the aftermath of protests in Yining in 1997 and 2008 in Tibet, but the campaigns' Fight against separatism "and" Strike Force "facing the region for decades.
SUMMIT OF NON-ALIGNED
Again, the Heads of States and representatives of developing countries around the world converge to a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement or NAM
This time the place meeting is Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, and representatives of 118 countries in addition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend
Some analysts say that given the central question NAM summits is whether it still has a role to play is proof that the thing has no relevance to help poor countries
Apart Raoul Castro is quite difficult to find a single count of State summit which is not truly non-aligned, and this, starting with the host, Egypt Egypt
violate virtually all the qualifications to serve on the NAM, at least in the original charter
that is to say, a development policy based on independence, support for liberation movements
In his speech to delegates, Raul Castro has expressed his desire urgently to see the construction of a new global financial architecture in response to the current economic crisis
In fact, the total disaster has been the neo-liberalism that has destroyed the NAM ...
The rise of the Washington consensus and the WTO during the 1980s came the movement with the death of the third world in the late 1970's
Few people remember it, but at the top from 1973 to Algiers, the NAM has proposed a detailed restructuring of the global economy that required, among other
to democratize the World Bank and IMF
institutionalization of stabilization prices of raw materials
and transfer of technology and industrialization in the developing world
The proposals had been adopted at a special meeting of the G77 at the UN
The developing countries were so success at the time to put forward their point of view common economic, that the G7 was created in 1975 to provide a place where rich countries can discuss them quiet
Today, NAM is a empty shell, an organization to advance without really knowing where
internal contradictions of the movement, particularly annexation of a large number of countries in the economic globalization of the western suffocated
The debt crisis of the 1980s has dramatically changed the game, bringing the power into the hands of rich countries
destroying the coup solidarity of the Third World
shortly after the Western countries have pushed hard for the WTO whose term is exactly the opposite of what was trying to make the non-aligned countries in the years 1970
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Movement of Non-aligned can not now proposed an alternative world based on justice and fairness ... The
greatest favor that the NAM could go to third world would dissolve to make way for a new grassroots movement inter-regional travel is not just wind
LEBANESE ELECTIONS
The general election which took place in Lebanon last month confirms once again how much control the sectarian identity politics in this small Mediterranean countries.
They objected, in the terminology used by international media, the pro-Western camp said "March 14" and that, supposedly pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian, said, "March 8".
Once again, Lebanon seems not to exist by itself, but only through the prism of its powerful neighbors.
Victory broad camp "March 14" (the Sunni "Future Movement" Saad Hariri and Druze "Progressive Socialist Party" of Wallid Jumblatt) was a real surprise.
Looks like we have collectively forgotten the lessons of the civil war that began with a dispute political class and had quickly fallen into ethnic conflict.
The Taif agreement, which ended the Lebanese civil war, clearly states that all groups must disband militias
And while some sectarian groups have still kept a hand on their weapons, there is that Hezbollah had kept a military arsenal worthy to name
The occupation of southern Lebanon by Israel is the major reason
But Hezbollah has also turned his arms against the pro-government forces in May 2008 in the streets of Beirut
No wonder that today's groups who do not like the presence of Hezbollah weapons that exist outside the state system are the same fear that the political influence, economic and military rise of the Shiite group in Lebanon
... and it devotes also have people from regions that have suffered less abuse Recent Israel against the country
This includes former members of the Phalange Party, which supported Israel during the civil war, the invasion in 1982 and its occupation of the south that ended in 2000
The Lebanese Christians are a bit stressed right now with a sense demographically marginalized before the rise of Muslim population, specifically the Shiites who support Hezbollah
So an alliance of former warlords and business tycoons have won the election Recent
what becomes evident is that Hezbollah seems satisfied with the result
because at the moment the new government has no intention to remove its military arsenal
And Hezbollah sets up a benefit in distributing social services to communities of Shiites paus
But amidst all this there are the Sunnis who, without group Military them alone, they have a weapon that Lebanon agrees very well, money.
It comes from petro-dollars from Saudi Arabia, a Sunni country. The
suniites have managed to buy their way into power.
While the wheel of partisan politics continues to operate in Lebanon, the Lebanese elite retains power through heredity ... family ties and that is especially true in this new parliament
The Lebanese population gain, once and for all, to leave God and absolute truth that is, outside the government
The lack of separation of Church and State who keep themselves and their country on the brink of disaster, and certainly this new government is no exception
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