italiano
World
Social Agenda Padova
The Asian Way
Repression, Renaissance, Redemption,
Civitas, may 5th 2006 – Padova Fiere, 20.00 – 23.30
Opening
H 20.00 – 20.30 View of short-film “The Asian Way”
Giving a face to Asia starting from asian communities in Veneto
Chea
Vannath
 From repression to UN, women for peace: a forgotten genocide. Khmer Rouge and the tragedy of Cambodia’s repression. What’s women’s role for peace and reconciliation process in Asia? Asian woman is responsible for peacefull leading in family, the community and Institutions. To which extent do they really bear the weight of this responsability?
Chea Vannath is 69 years old. She comes from a rich family, her father is a jeweler and her husband a physician, major in the Cambodian Army. She has a child boy 8 years old, when in 1975 they all are deported by Khmer Rouge communists to labor camps. They survive and escape to United States when the South Vietnamese chased off the Khmer Rouge communists, in 1979.She works as a secretary as she holds a degree in public administration from the Royal School of Administration, Cambodia. She divorced in 1987 but her son stays with her. In 1991 she receives a master in pubblic administration (Portland State University).
She goes back to Phnom Phen (after 12 years) as a Board Member of the Cambodian Network Council, a national organization whose aim is to preserve the homeland culture. She has extensive experiences working with governments and national and international non-governmental organizations both in Cambodia and in USA. She served in the special missions of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) 1992-1993. She is then President of the Center for Social Development (CSD) untill April 1th 2006. CSD is a non-governmental organization, advocating for good governance through the institutionalization of democratic values and principles. She conducts public meetings on national issues, and acts as a non-partisan and neutral forum to discuss issues of concern to society. Under her leadership, the CSD has taken numerous first steps for Cambodia including: the development of Cambodia’s voters’ guide in 1998; the establishment of the first series of open forums for debating national issues publicly (one of which is on “The Khmer Rouge and the National Reconciliation”), the first national survey on corruption; and the development of the first national curriculum on transparency and accountability in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Youth. Chea Vannath is currently National Deputy Commissioner of the Girl Guide Association of Cambodia, under the High Patronage of the Queen of Cambodia. She got numerous national and international recognitions for her commitment and dedication for the services provided to the country and society, and was a candidate to Women Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Charika Marasinghe
 Reconstruction, not only material
Not only pain and poverty but energy and will to exist and resist. Poverty, conflicts, violence, distruction. But also wisdom, non violence, peace, mistery. Give a different image of Asia because Asia is different from the given image.
Born 12 June 1961, Charika Marasinghe is a Human Rights Law Consultant and Founder-Director of Sarvodaya, the largest voluntary movement in Sri Lanka. She has a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (1984) and a Master of Letters, Wolfson College,University of Oxford UK (1989). In 1985 as a fresh law graduate she founds the Sarvodaya Legal Services Movement which implements the largest village legal empowerment programme in the country operating in 200 villages in 24 administrative districts. She is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and at the Open University of Sri Lanka and Bandaranaike Center for International Studies of Colombo. She authored many researches and pubblications (at nataional and international level) such as the Manual on Child Abuse (published by Sri Lanka Police Department); Manual on Violations against Women (published by Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Sri Lanka); Unnicef’s manual on children abuse, in english and tamil language,and further updatings. She has been a board member of OneWorld International Foundation (U.K), the world’s largest internet based media gateway promoting grassroots level initiatives on human rights and sustainable development. As an active trustee of the Vishva Niketan International Peace Centre she is involved in organizing spiritual resources workshops, meditation programmes and peace dialogues for different target groups such as community leaders, prison inmates, prison officials, school children, health care officers, corporate leaders etc. Responding to the needs of Tsunami survivors she founded the psycho-spiritual healing programme and cooperates with Vishva Niketan to facilitate the project entitled “spiritual networks–Community Reawakening”, through a group of volunteers, “Meth Sith Sabendiyo” (Compassionate Minds).In May 2005 Charika was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law by the University of Oxford (Balliol College) for her thesis entitled ‘A Child’s Right to Privacy in International Law’. For the first time in international law this thesis carries out an in-depth analysis of Article 16, the privacy clause of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. With the expertise in the field of child rights law, in 2005 August, Charika launched the Company C R L (Child Rights Law) International, first of its kind to promote and protect child rights.
Nurjahan Begum
 Renaissance and redemption, starting
from women: to
give credit to women: a virtuous, unstoppable circle. The asian way:
the
experience of Grameen Bank. Redemption starting from microfinance.
Born in august 15th 1952 in
Chittagong, Bangladesh, she has a bachelor and a master in letterature.
She has
attended many workshop and conferences on micro-finance abroad. Among
them :
Germania with German Commission for Peace and Justice and the Fetheral
Ministery, Indonesia with the Inter-ministery Conference, Beijing at
the
International Conference “Women of forth world”,
Senegal at the Regional
strategic organization
board of
micro-finance african organization, in Pakistan at the Mundial Bank for
a
micro-finance research, in New York to the Annual Meeting of Councils
of the
Microcredit Summit and in Ivory Coast to the Council Meeting.She
is the General Director of the Grameen Bank, the first
“poor people in the world” bank and
she
partecipated to the grat diffusion of micro-credit as an instruments
for
fighting poverty. She has been working for Grameen Bank ever since
it’s opening
in training programs organization for high level employees, clients and
other
organization wanting to replicate Grameen Bank models in other nations.
As a
deep knower of rural areas of Bangladesh, she has presented projects
and models
of Grameen Bank abroad in different occasions: consultant in Malaysia
for Amanah
Ikhtiar Project (poor landless), first replication of Grameen Bank
model,
consultant for different USA and Canada’s Fundations, speaker
at the seminar on
“Economy and globalization of women” and conference
on Asia’s Future (HIV) in
Switzerland, Grameen Bank’s workshop in China and India,
Summit on Microfinance
in New York on 2002, replication of Grameen Bank project in Turchia
2003, round
table on Sexual and Reproductive Health and poverty in Svezia 2004.
Hu Lanbo
 Asia nearby
: to live in and inhabit the wealthy
and Northern World. To live and inhabit in contradiction. The Asian
woman is
ever more present in all parts of society - in schools, associations,
districts, supermarkets. It
is time for
the meeting of cultures, and time to open and welcome diversity, which
can only
be a richness.
Hu Lanbo is born in 1959 in
Harbin, north of China near Russian boarder. In 1983 she graduates in
French
litterature and language at the Beijing University. In 1986 she gains a
master
in cinese litterature and language at Paris University La Sorbonne and
in 1989
D.e.a. of french litterature. She has a theatre experience (1985-87) as
an
actress in TSAI group at festivals (Avignon 1986) and
tournèe around France. In
1989 she is given an award from Bleustein Blanchet Fundation with
patronage of French
Repubblic President and she marries an italian, moving to Rome. In 1992
she
pubblishes her first book in China “93 days with
Itala” (about an expedition of
Fiat’s car “Itala” from Italy to China,
for 22.000 Kms). From 1993 to 1999 she
experiences as an entrepreneur and economic consultant for chinese
governament
in Fangshang district of Beijing. She funds La.Ca. srl, a company into
export
of italian machinery (shoe business) torwards China, growing relations
with
italian and chinese institutions and with several other companies as a
consultant. She has a close cooperation with Chinese Stylist
Association. Since
2000 she is a journalist for “The new China” in
Rome, becoming director in
2003. She is italian corrispondant for China Fashion Weekly, magazine
for
fashion professionals. In 2001 she created “China in
Italy” newspaper with
great consense in chinese community in Rome. Her articles have great
vibrancy
in chinese community both in Italy and China.
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