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| Cease hypocrisy on the issue of Human Rights |
Cease hypocrisy on the issue of Human Rights The 62nd Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will begin next March The United States and its EU allies have successively prevented this Commission from condemning the massive and systematic violations of human rights promoted in the name of the so called war against terrorism. The EU governments have refused to admit the testimonies and evidences submitted by citizens of their countries, who have been victims of several forms of torture at Guantánamo navy base. They have also allowed the flight of CIA aircrafts carrying prisoners to illegal detention centers in Europe and elsewhere. We the undersigned call upon intellectuals, artists, social activists, and men and women of goodwill everywhere to join our claims: the Commission on Human Rights or the Council that will substitute it, must demand the immediate closing of the arbitrary detention centers created by the United States as well as the ceasing of all these deliberate violations of human dignity. José Saramago, Portugal; Harold Pinter, Reino Unido; Nadine Gordimer, Sudáfrica; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala; Wole Soyinka, Nigeria; Dario Fo, Italia; Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Irlanda del Norte; Danielle Mitterrand, Francia; Harry Belafonte, EEUU; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Danny Glover, EEUU; Gerard Depardieu, Francia; Gianni Vattimo, Italia; Ignacio Ramonet, España-Francia; Alice Walker, EEUU; Manu Chao, Francia-España; Tariq Ali, Pakistán; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Pierre Richard, Francia; Ettore Scola, Italia; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Naomi Klein, Canadá; Frei Betto, Brasil; Pablo González Casanova, México; Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuba; Alfonso Sastre, España; Samir Amin, Egipto; Walter Salles, Brasil; Howard Zinn, EEUU; Armand Mattelart, Bélgica-Francia; Joaquín Sabina, España; Leonardo Boff, Brasil; Francois Houtart, Bélgica; José Luis Sampedro, España; Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivia; Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina; Silvio Rodríguez, Cuba; Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, España-México; Gianni Miná, Italia; Fernando Morais, Brasil; Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua; William Blum, EEUU; Blanca Chancosa Sánchez, Ecuador; Ramsey Clark, EEUU; Istvan Meszaros, Hungría; Pablo Milanés, Cuba; Rosa Regás, España; Giulio Girardi, Italia; Pedro Guerra, España; Alicia Alonso, Cuba; Almudena Grandes, España; James Petras, EEUU; Luis Eduardo Aute, España; Luis Sepúlveda, Chile; Isaac Rosa, España; Volodia Teitelboim, Chile; María Rojo, México; Daniel Viglietti, Uruguay; Atilio Borón, Argentina; Boaventura de Sousa, Portugal; Ramon Chao, España; Alan Woods, Reino Unido; Nora Cortiñas, Argentina; Saul Landau, EEUU; Martin Almada, Paraguay; Belén Gopegui, España; Laura Restrepo, Colombia; Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; James Cockcroft, EEUU; Maribel Permuy, España; Javier Couso, España; Lucius Walker, EEUU; Eva Forest, España; Keith Ellis, Jamaica-Canadá; Joao Pedro Stedile, Brasil; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico; Emir Sader, Brasil; Stella Calloni, Argentina; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rico; Miguel Urbano, Portugal; Arturo Andrés Roig, Argentina; Michele Mattelart, Francia; Francisco de Oliveira, Brasil; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuador; Víctor Flores Olea, México; Susan George, EEUU-Francia; Piero Gleijeses, Italia-EEUU; Michael Avery, EEUU; Salim Lamrani, Francia; Juan Bañuelos, México; Luis García Montero, España; Georges Labica, Francia; Hanan Awwad, Palestina; Fernando Savater, España; Michel Collon, Bélgica; Tato Pavlovsky, Argentina; Setsuko Ono, EEUU; Andrés Sorel, España; Cintio Vitier, Cuba; Edmundo Aray, Venezuela; Eric Nepomuceno, Brasil; Frank Fernández, Cuba; Carlos Piera, España; Leo Brower, Cuba; Aldo M. Etchegoyen, Argentina; Theotonio dos Santos, Brasil; Carmen Bohorquez, Venezuela; Julie Belafonte, EEUU; Noé Jitrik, Argentina; Tununa Mercado, Argentina; Jean Marie Binoche; Francia; Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina; Paul Estrade, Francia; Sergent García, Francia-España; Abelardo Castillo, Argentina; Sylvia Iparraguirre, Argentina; Jacky Henin, Francia; Luciana Castellina, Italia, Beth Carvallo, Brasil, Liliana Hecker, Argentina; Nicole Borvo; Francia; Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Nicaragua; Tomás Borge Martínez, Nicaragua; Rodrigo Borja, Ecuador; Pascual Serrano, España; Carlos Martí, Cuba; Claude Couffon, Francia; Raúl Suárez, Cuba; Mark C. Rosenzweig, EEUU; Marilia Guimaraes, Brasil; Beverly Keene, EEUU-Argentina; Gilberto López y Rivas, México; Juan Mari Brás, Puerto Rico; Francisco Fernández Buey, España; Marjorie Cohn, EEUU; Luis Antonio de Villena, España; Jordan Flaherty, EEUU; Medea Benjamín, EEUU; Ann Sparanese, EEUU; Hildebrando Pérez, Perú; Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombia-Francia; James Early, EEUU; Manuel Cabieses, Chile; Richard Gott, Reino Unido; Héctor Díaz Polanco, Rep. Dominicana-México; Consuelo Sánchez, México; Luis Alegre Zahonero, España; Carlos Fernández Liria, España; Osvaldo Martínez, Cuba; Ana Esther Ceceña, México; Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaragua; Carlo Frabetti, Italia-España; Manuel Talens, España; Santiago Alba Rico, España; Amaury Pérez Vidal, Cuba; Danny Rivera, Puerto Rico; Fernando Butazzoni, Uruguay; Julio Gambina, Argentina; Julia Uceda, España; Sara González, Cuba; Tunai, Brasil; Ismael Clark Arxer, Cuba; Fernando Marías, España; Ana Pellicer, España; Nancy Morejón, Cuba; David Raby, Reino Unido; Gennaro Carotenuto, Italia; Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador; Jorge Beinstein, Argentina; Jane Franklin, EEUU; Wim Dierckxsens, Costa Rica; Alejandro Moreano, Ecuador; Federico Álvarez, México; Boris Kagarlitsky, Rusia; José Luiz Del Roio, Brasil; Remy Herrera, Francia; Francisco Jarauta, España; Luciano Vasapollo, Italia; Irene Amador, España; Eduardo Torres Cuevas, Cuba; Jorge Riechmann, España; Alessandra Riccio, Italia; Javier Corcuera, Perú; Antonio Maira, España; Fabio Marcelli, Italia; Julio García Espinosa, Cuba; José Steinsleger, Argentina-México; Hans-Otto Dill, Alemania; Douglas Valentine, EEUU; Luciano Alzaga, Argentina; Constantino Bértolo, España; John Pateman, EEUU; Domenico Jervolino, Italia; Francisco Villa, Chile; Santiago Feliú, Cuba; Peter Bohmer, EEUU; Graziella Pogolotti, Cuba; Faride Zeran, Chile; Sergio Trabucco, Chile; Lisandro Otero, Cuba; Juan Madrid, España; Sara Rosemberg, Argentina; Carilda Oliver Labra, Cuba; Alfons Cervera, España; Arnel Medina Cuenca, Cuba; Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, España; Fina García Marruz, Cuba; Joseph E. Mulligan, EEUU; Miguel Barnet, Cuba; Jordi Gracia, España; Ricardo Antunes, Brasil; Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua; Pablo Armando Fernández, Cuba; Carlos Fazio, Argentina; Angel Augier, Cuba; Arturo Corcuera, Perú; Pilar del Río, España; César López, Cuba; Vicente Romano, España; Antón Arrufat, Cuba; Néstor Kohan, Argentina; Gloria Berrocal, España; Javier Maqua, España; Abelardo Estorino, Cuba; Aldo Díaz Lacayo, Nicaragua; Ambrosio Fornet, Cuba; Carlos Varea, España; Jaime Sarusky, Cuba; Alfredo Vera, Ecuador; Beinusz Szmukler, Argentina; Reynaldo González, Cuba; Juan Carlos Mestre, España; Senel Paz, Cuba; Miguel Alvarez Gándara, México; Roberto Fabelo, Cuba; Quintín Cabrera, Uruguay; Vicente Feliú, Cuba; Jordi Doce, España; Ana María Navales, España; Rebeca Chávez, Cuba; Andrés Neuman, España; Eduardo Roca, Cuba; Enrique Falcón, España; Vanessa Ramos, Puerto Rico; Isabel Pérez Montalbán, España; Roberto Verrier, Cuba; José Viñals, España; Martha Viñals, España; Manuel Rico, España; Harold Gratmages, Cuba; Emilio Torné, España; Leticia Spiller, Brasil; Dionisio Cañas, España; Paula Casals, María del Carmen Barcia, Cuba; Reino Unido; Andrés Gómez, Cuba; Marcela Cornejo Zamorano, Chile; Anthony Arnove, EEUU; Diana Balboa, Cuba; Edgar Queipo, Venezuela; Albert Kasanda, República del Congo; Yamandú Acosta, Uruguay; Raly Barrionuevo, Argentina; Pablo Guayasamín, Ecuador; Isabel Monal, Cuba; Verenice Guayasamín, Ecuador; Jaime Losada Badia, España; Alicia Hermida, España; Alfonso Bauer, Guatemala; Handel Guayasamín, Ecuador; Cecilia Conde, Brasil; Salvador Bueno, Cuba; Mano Melo, Brasil; Jorge Ibarra, Cuba; Al Campbell, EEUU, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, España; José Villa Soberón, Cuba; Angeles Mora, España; Eloy Arroz, México; Mario Andrés Solano, Costa Rica; Jose Luis Toledo Santander, Cuba; Jitendra Sharma, India; Cléa Carpi da Rocha, Brasil; João Luiz Duboc Pinaud, Brasil; Daniel Cirera, Francia, Gilson Cantarino, Brasil, Francisco Pérez Guzmán, Cuba; Chiara Varese, Perú; Gloria la Riva , EEUU; José Loyola Fernández, Cuba; Richard Becker, EEUU; Brian Becker, EEUU; Carlos Alberto Cremata, Cuba; Claudia Korol, Argentina; Gilberto Maringoni, Brasil; Elizabeth A. Bowman, EEUU; Bob Stone, EEUU; Vicente Battista, Argentina; Carles Furriols i Solà, España; Isabel-Clara Simó, España; Yaki Yaskvloski, Argentina; José Ramón Artigas, Cuba; José Paulo Gascão, Portugal; Fernando Key Domínguez, Venezuela; Simone Contiero, Italia; Carlos Martínez, España; Antonia García Bueno, España; Zoila Lapique, Cuba; Tom Twiss, EEUU; Paloma Valverde, España; María Ángeles Maeso, España; Estrella Rey, Cuba; Luis Felipe Comendador, España; Julio Fernández Bulté, Cuba; Luciano Feria Hurtado, España; Paco Puche, España; Matías Bosch, República Dominicana; Pablo Escribano Ibáñez, España; Miguel Veyrat, España; Olga Miranda Bravo, Cuba; Virgilio Tortosa, España; Jesús Aguado, España; Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández, Cuba; Manuel Moya, España; Emilio Pedro Gómez, España; Lara Gallut, España; José Corredor Matheos, España; José Giménez, España; Abraham Toro, Venezuela; Luzmila Marcano, Venezuela, Carlos Padrón, Cuba; Judith Valencia, Venezuela; Mario Sáenz, EEUU; Ligia Machado, Colombia; Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Alemania; Gustavo Fernández Colón, Venezuela; Hector Arenas, Colombia; Antonio Scocozza, Italia; Elsa Liliana Tovar, Venezuela; Vladimir Lazo García, Venezuela; Pierre Mouterde, Canadá; Estela Fernández Nadal, Argentina; Fernando Asián, Venezuela; Justo Soto Castellanos, Colombia; Francisco Berdichevsky Linares, Argentina; Mauricio Langon, Uruguay; César de Vicente Hernando, España; Roberto Loya, España; Rafael José Díaz, España; Rosa Lentini, España; Ricardo Cano Gaviria, España; Salustiano Martín, España; Francisco Gálvez, España; Oscar Carpintero, España; Alberto R. Torices, España; Giovanni Parapini, Italia; José Luis Sagüés, España; Concepción Martínez, España; Olga Lucas, España; Antonio Orihuela, España; Clara Sanchos, España; Iván Zaldua, España; Jordi Dauder, España; David Méndez, España; Enrique Gracia, España; Ramón Souto, España; Blanca Viñas, España; José María Parreño, España; Armando Fernández Steinko, España; José Luis Pacheco, Venezuela; Belén Artuñedo, España; Nacho Fernández, España; Rosa Grau, España; Consuelo Triviño, España; David Ortiz-Alburquerque, República Dominicana; Nilo Batista, Brasil; Carmen Vargas, Brasil; Carlos Henrique Botkay, Brasil; Clarissa Matheus, Brasil; Ulisses Guimarães, Brasil; Vivaldo Franco, Brasil; Clarissa Mantuano, Brasil; Heloisa Branca, Brasil; Eduardo Ebendinger, Brasil; Marcello Guimaraes, Brasil; Célia Ravero, Brasil; Lavinia Borges, Brasil; Teodoro Buarque de Holanda, Brasil; Felinto Procopio Minerin, Brasil; José Ibraim, Brasil; Ecatherina Brasileiro, Brasil; Silvio Tendler, Brasil; Ana Rosa Tendler, Brasil; Teo Lima, Brasil; José Braga, Brasil; Fábio Basilone, Brasil; Denise Fraga, Brasil; Carlos Eduardo Ibraim, Brasil; Michelle Victer, Brasil; Violeta Cabello, España; Alejandro Moreno, España; Claufe Rodrigues, Brasil; Ledo Ivo, Brasil; Monica Montone, Brasil; Terezinha Lameira, Brasil; Jesus Chediak, Brasil; Pedro Amaral, Brasil; Maria Laura Laskshim, Brasil; Waldir Leite, Brasil; Walter Guiadazo, Brasil; Marcellus Franco, Brasil; João Grilo, Brasil; Sérgio Saboya, Brasil; Geraldo Moreira, Brasil; Ivair Itagiba, Brasil; Emilio Mira y Lopez, Brasil; José Luis Rodríguez García, España; Daniel Salgado, España; Olga Matara Peñarrocha, España
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Opposition to US Prison in Guantanamo Grows Bulgaria: Close Guantanamo Naval Base |
Opposition to US Prison in Guantanamo Grows Havana, May 9, 2006. (Prensa Latina) Opposition to the US prison in the naval base of Guantanamo keeps on growing, with at least 10, 819 who have joined the call made by intellectuals and the civil society for closing such facilities. People from all sectors are increasingly joining this call for the closure of Guantanamo and other torture centers, as well as for the end of the European Union-US complicity in the "flights of death" carrying opponents or suspects, according to the Network of Networks in Defense of Humankind, which sponsors the document released on Mar 14. The text also demands that the EU should pay attention to denunciations of citizens who have been illegally tortured and interrogated by US experts. Nine Nobel Prizewinners, including Jose Saramago, Wolle Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Dario Fo, Harold Pinter, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mairead Corrigan and Zhores Alfiorov, have signed the protest.
Bulgaria: Close Guantanamo Naval Base Havana, Apr 27, 2006 (Prensa Latina) Bulgaria's anti-fascist daily Zharava made a front page a call to “End Hypocrisy in Human Rights”. The Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity has been collecting signatures urging the closing of the US naval base in Guantanamo as well as other US torture centers. So far over 9,000 Nobel Prizewinners, heads of state, artists, scientists, indigenous leaders, feminists, laymen and social organizations have signed. To join them, if you have not already done so, go to www.derechos-humanos.com. The document also calls to end the US and European Union complicity with CIA "rendition flights" carrying terrorism suspects, dissidents or opponent of US government policy. It also calls for the EU to pay attention to denouncements from nationals that have suffered torture, interrogation and prison and have been denied access to legal counsel.
Guatemalans against Guantanamo Jail "I have always been against those foreign military bases and I think that in case of Guantanamo, there is no reason of having an enclave like that in an independent country," said physician Jose Barnoya, one of the signers of the document. Barnoya, admirer of Cuba since he was a teenager, talked of the historic links between the two countries and Jose Marti´s presence in Guatemala, as well as termed inadmissible the US blockade on Cuba for over 40 years. Alfonso Bauer, another Guatemalan academic, has also supported Cuba and demanded Washington to close Pentagon´s prison in its naval base in Guantanamo, a portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied against the will of the island nation. The renowned lawyer was one of the first signers of the international call against the war in Iraq and US violations of human rights, a document signed by over 6,000 academics worldwide so far.
Buenos Aires, Mar 30, 2006 (Prensa Latina) Argentine academics urged their compatriots to endorse the international document "Cease Hypocrisy on the Issue of Human Rights." Political scientist Atilio Boron, executive secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, presented a world call condemning US human rights policy at the Cultural Cooperation Center in Buenos Aires on Thursday. More than 5,500 people including Nobel Prize laureates, cultural and political celebrities and representatives of social and human rights organizations have signed the text against the US hypocritical conduct, and 700 are from Argentina. Boron cited the numerous flagrant violations the US government has committed, such as tortures of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo naval base. He supported the demand to promptly shut down arbitrary US detention camps operating in the world and stop violations of human dignity. Argentine intellectuals want their government to heed the document and change its vote at the UN to condemn any US resolution against Havana, said Boron. His stance was repeated by writer and journalist Stella Callón, who called for participants to sign the document and raise their voices to say NO to the Empire´s wild race to dominate the world. Leon Rozichner, a philosopher and teacher at the university, asserted the US mass media seeks to terrify audiences and neutralize their response.
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