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World Social Agenda Trento

Asia. Overcoming fear

Participation, Rights, Reconciliation

Trento, Sala Cooperazione, Segantinistreet, 15th may 2006, h 8.30 pm

Chea Vannath

The new Cambodia from death to life.

Chea Vannath is 69 years old. She comes form 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.

Charito Basa

Filippines: between reconciliation and escape.

For the past 18 years, Basa has worked in Italy with international non-government organizations (NGOs) such as Isis International, the Society for International Development as well as other Italian development and cooperation NGOs, such as Centro Internazionale Crocevia. As part of her revolutionary work for women and migrants, she founded and chairs the Filipino Women’s Council, a migrant organization in Rome that assists Filipinas and other women working as domestic helpers, as well as organizes leadership training seminars, promotes economic empowerment programmes, facilitates network building and develops programmes for institutions and communities. A native of Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, Basa holds key positions in the boards of migrant organizations, Italian women’s associations and European networks and has also collaborated with United Nations agencies, the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the International Organization for Migration on issues concerning migrants, human rights, citizenship, suffrage, remittances and policy reform. . Being involved with these organisations, she has participated in many international conferences including the Women’s Conference in Beijing representing the interests of migrant women. She is one of the very few non-Italians to receive the national recognition Ordine “Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” conferred by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as Cavaliere della Repubblica in 2002.

Kezevino Aram

The Gandhian nonviolence to overcome the fear. Between religions too.

Kezevino Aram has been serving as Director, Shanti Ashram, since January 2001. The Ashram, founded on the Gandhian vision of Sarvodaya, was established in1986 in Coimbatore , India . The Ashram has made significant contributions in the field of Integrated Rural development in India through policy and programmatic inputs, over the past two decades. As Director, she currently coordinates with her team, over 25 programmes & projects, which serve a population of 120,000 people. The Ashram's programme partners include Gandhian Organizations, Government of India, UN Agencies including Unicef & UNDP, World Conference on Religion & Peace, Arigato foundation, Harvard School of Public Health & the State Government of Tamilnadu. The framework for these initiatives is provided by the Ashram's eight identified programme areas and its portfolio of work includes service projects, social mobilization, micro-level development interventions, micro-finance, resource provision, policy discussions, technical consultancies, capacity building, education, training & internships, research & publishing. In the past 10 years, Vinu, as she is fondly called, has sought many creative ways in furthering the cause of children, through health care, education and poverty alleviation initiatives. Her professional training in child health has helped her conceptualize innovative programs for micro-level interventions and research inputs to macro level policies. She serves as Assistant Professor at the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and was nominated by the Government of India to the task force on Orphan & Vulnerable Children affected by HIV/AIDS. Some of the conceptual & programmatic work she is currently engaged in includes: Vulnerability Mapping of Rural children for Growth and Development, Child Friendly Village Initiative, Ethics Education and developing curriculum and learning opportunities for medical students in Child Health. Aram's involvement with the World Conference on Religion and Peace started in1989 when she was elected to the International Youth committee of WCRP. She has since participated actively in the leadership & Children's programme of WCRP and now serves as Member of the Executive committee of WCRP/ International.

Meera Bhattarai

Fair Trade: Freedom, development, creativity.

Meera Bhattarai was born in Kathmandu and she strated her career at the early age of 20 at Nepal Women's organization. There she noticed the local handicrafts. Meera had the vision of an autonomous organization that could do business as well as work for the development of the craft workers. She is the Founder, in 1977, and Executive Director of the fair trade organization "Association for Craft Producers" (ACP). Meera Bhattarai and the ACP has proven that unorganized women work force with farm and family responsibilities, working irregular hours can be organized and turned into competent and reliable work force. She has participated in over 20 international conferences and workshops on women related issues and also in various international trade fairs and seminars. She has served as co-opted committee member in the IFAT Executive Committee. She served Fair Trade Group Nepal as a founder Chair for a decade. She is also the founder member of Asia Fair Trade Forum. She was awarded with Ashoka Fellowship by Ashoka Foundation in recognition of contribution in women and development. She has been awarded with Ashoka Fellowship for successfully balancing the business priority and social obligation. She was recognized as "One of the Most Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" in 2004 by SCHWAB Foundation, Switzerland.

Maria

Dreams of Freedom: the human rights violation in Burma.

Maria, 20 years old, was born in Rangoon. From July 2004 she is student at the University of Trento. She is one of the few birmanian citizens in Italy and Trentino.

Modera

Tana de Zulueta

She was born in Bogotà, Colombia, from Spanish father and English mother. She got a B.A Honours Archeology and Anthropology at the Cambridge University (UK), in 1972, with a final dissertation on the castes structure in India. She started as freelance television journalist for BBC, Granada and ITV. Correspondent for "The Sunday Times" in Rome for ten years, from 1987 to 1996, and for "The Economist" from 1987 to 1996. From april 1996 she is Member of the Italian Senate. Member of the bicameral anti-Mafia Committee, she is the signer of the law introducing the crime of trafficking in the italian penal code, formerly adopted the 5th of december 2000. From 1996 to 2000 she was Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee from 2001 to 2005. She is currently Member of the Senate special Committee on Human Rights and of the Senate Defence Committee and first vice-president of the committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography.

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