81. Are We Our Siblings' Keeper? Why Genocide Since 1945? The Nazi Holocaust genocide of romani (Gypsies) - Why did the Nazi target theromani Genocide of indigenous people of the Americas - How and why were http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webgenocideds.html

Are we our siblings' keeper? Why genocide since 1945? An Internet WebQuest on genocide created by Donna Sharer Northeast High School Introduction The Task Conclusion Dictionary.com Introduction 'In Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionists. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and no one was left to speak up.' (attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller, Dachau, Germany, 1941) Are we our siblings' keeper? 'It is entirely natural to care the most deeply about one's self and one's own people, and to care more intensely for some other peoples with whom one feels a more immediate kinship, but ultimately the challenge of human development, both for the benefit of individual mental health and happiness and for the benefit of humanity, is for more people to care about all human life.' (Israel W. Carny, 'Which Genocide Matters More? Learning to Care about Humanity?' from Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (New York: Garland Publishing Inc. 1997, xix). So, am I my siblings keeper? Genocide has been part of human society since recorded history. We may know when, where, who, and how it happens but why? Why does genocide continue to part of the human experience? This webquest will ask you to look at the 'why' of genocide and come up with solutions to prevent it from occuring in the 21st century.

82. The Other Son Of Pacha Mama TO THE indigenous PEOPLE AND AFRODESCENDANTS, AS WELL AS OTHERS TRADITONALPEOPLES WHICH WESTERN CANADIAN romani ALLIANCE. E-mail celtrom@uniserve.com http://www.philology.ru/liloro/romanes/declaration_eng.htm

From: Gitanos (Rom) de Colombia ( viamultiple@hotmail.com Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001, 11:03:20 PM. Subject: THE OTHER SON OF PACHA MAMA - MOTHER EARTH CONTINENTAL MEETING OF THE ROMA PEOPLE OF AMERICAS Quito (Ecuador), March 12 - 16 , 2001 The following organizations and Kumpania Rom, assembled at the event: "The Roma people: The other son of Pacha Mama - Mother Earth, Continental Meeting of the Roma people of Americas", held in Quito, Equador from the 12 to the 16 March, 2001, under the heading "The Forum of the Americas for Diversity and Plurality". CONSIDERING: - That distinct kumpanias and Roma family groups have been living in various countries of the Americas from the colonial period to the present day, and that our presence as a people predates the creation of many of these States - That collectively the Roma people have a long presence and history in almost all the countries of the Americas - That our contributions to the process of the formation of the nationalities of these various countries of the Americas have not been acknowledged by Gadje society. - That the Roma People have never pretended to dominate or impose their culture upon other peoples and, contrarily, been characterized by their respect of diversity and plurality

83. University Of Virginia: Human Rights Topics The Mapuche Page indigenous people who live in southern Chile and Argentina The Patrin - romani culture and history European Roma Rights Center http://faculty.virginia.edu/irandhumanrights/topics.htm

Human Rights in General International organizations Human Rights Organization Human Rights News ... Miscellaneous International Relations and Human Rights Prof. Michael Joseph Smith Director, Political and Social Thought Program / Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs 232 Cabell Hall Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 mjsmith@virginia.edu Human Rights Topics General Human Rights Issues - at Derechos OneWorld Net Outstanding website linking "over 1000 organizations working for Social Justice." Children's Rights Covenant House/Casa Alianza - working against violations to children's human rights in Central America. "Street Children" Online Information and Organization Links - great links Children's Freedom Network - working to defend the rights of children and young people throughout the world. Free the Children - dedicated to the elimination of child labour and the exploitation of children Pangaea Street Children Global Childnet Children Rights at HR Internet Multilingual Human Rights - Focus on Children Suffer The Little Children - Series by the Ottowa Sun K.R.A.T.Z.A

84. WCAR NGO FORUM indigenous People of South America. Chair Arlington Trotman. Rapporteur NizamAssaf. 1030 – 1300 romani Cultural Group. Stella Mankanya, ISC http://www.racism.org.za/program/wcar_programme.html

th AUGUST 2001 Registration Protocol and Ushers SPECIAL PLENARY Heidi Fryer PLENARY: CONTEMPORARY MANIFESTATIONS OF RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE Chair: Monica Aleman Speakers:  Protocol and Ushers QUESTIONS AND ANSWER PERIOD BREAK ORGANIZATION OF THE THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS (SESSIONS ROOMS ASSIGNMENTS) Chair: Bonakele Jacobs, Director, National Children’s Rights Committee – South Africa LUNCH THEMATIC WORKING GROUPS:  8 SESSSIONS Minority Rights, Human Rights and Citizenship Colonialism, Foreign Occupation and New Forms of Apartheid Justice (Legal Measures) Health and the Environment Education, Media and New Information Technologies (Internet) Poverty and the Economy (Globalisation) Multiple Forms of Discrimination and Intersection (Young Women) Slavery, Slave Trade, Compensation and Reparations REPORT BACK OF THE WORK OF THE THEMATIC GROUPS TO THE MAIN PLENARY Chair: Clayton Peters, Director, Youth Development Network, National Executive Committee, SANGOCO Rapporteur: BREAK WAY FORWARD AND THE FOLLOWUP MECHANISM ADOPTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION Chair: Sipho Masuku, South African Youth Council

85. Newsletter Massacres of indigenous people occurred in Rio Negro, Pacoxom, Xococ, the American romani Alliance, and the international All Gypsies Group have signed http://www.advocacynet.org/news_view/news_278.html

home sitemap search COAV Book: Key Findings ... Archive Issue 13 – July/August 2004 AdvocacyNet: Your link to the work of The Advocacy Project and its partners Issue 13 – July/August 2004 The Advocacy Project (AP) works to strengthen civil society, and maintains loose partnerships with over twenty-five community-based advocacy groups around the world. AP also maintains a database of subscribers who automatically receive AP publications, including the AP newsletter, AdvocacyNet. If you are not on this list, but would like to subscribe, send an e-mail to advocacynet1-request@advocacylists.org with the word 'subscribe' in the body of the message or visit: http://www.advocacylists.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacynet1_advocacylists.org .  The Advocacy Project welcomes letters and inquiries about new partnerships. Contact info@advocacynet.org In this issue: News from AP Partners: Chixoy Dam report nears completion, AP intern assists Rights Action in research Rights to generic medicines must be upheld, CDES says HHR finds justice slow-moving in Sri Lanka Amazon school emphasizes 'learning by doing' News from AP: AP launches campaign to change Dictionary.com's 'Gypsy' definition

86. Science Blog -- FINLAND SURPASSES EXPECTATIONS IN GUARANTEEING HUMAN RIGHTS, CHA The police did not have a register on the romani people. PAIVI PIETARINEN, LegalOfficer at The romani, an indigenous population, lived in the North. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/L/1998/A/un980439.html

1 April 1998 HR/CT/514 FINLAND SURPASSES EXPECTATIONS IN GUARANTEEING HUMAN RIGHTS, CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE STATES Committee Concludes Consideration of Compliance By Finland with Covenant on Civil, Political Rights The Constitution of Finland demonstrated that the Government had surpassed expectations in guaranteeing human rights in that country, the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee said this afternoon, as the Committee concluded its consideration of Finland's fourth periodic report on its compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Christine Chanet, the Committee Chairman and expert from France, said Finland's human rights situation could make many States envious. Finland refused extradition to countries that imposed the death penalty, and it was also in the vanguard with respect to languages, having advanced provisions concerning the rights of minorities to speak in their mother tongue. Nevertheless, even with its high degree of protection of human rights, Finland had problems similar to those of other European countries, particularly on the issue of discrimination against foreigners, she said. Concerning the situation of minorities, she suggested that Finland might consider signing the International Labour Organization's convention on indigenous and tribal people in independent States. Some experts wanted to know under what terms alien residents could gain citizenship in order to be protected against deportation, which could be ordered, for example, if a person was found guilty of shoplifting. The fact that a Finnish citizen could not be deported only highlighted the difference in treatment of citizens and those residents who were still regarded as aliens under Finnish law.

87. FENNIA 2002 Statistical comparisons of the indigenous Sami, the romani, and other old An Education Unit for the romani People was established under the National http://www.helsinki.fi/maantiede/geofi/fennia/demo/pages/raento.htm

Cultural diversity in Finland PAULIINA RAENTO AND KAI HUSSO Fennia 180: 1-2, pp. 000-000. Helsinki. ISSN 0015-0010. Pauliina Raento, Department of Geography, P. O. Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: pauliina.raento@helsinki.fi Kai Husso, Academy of Finland, P. O. Box 99, FIN-00501 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: kai.husso@cec.eu.int Introduction The Finns have been taught to think of Finland as a culturally homogeneous nation. There are, however, several ethnic and cultural minorities within the boundaries of the Finnish state. These groups consist of numerically fewer members than the majority population, are not in a dominant position in society, have distinctive linguistic, ethnic, or religious characteristics, and wish to maintain this distinctiveness. Many of these groups have clearly-defined regional hearths, as do several distinctive forms of the majority culture. The Swedish-speakers in Finland Finland gained independence from Russia in 1917. Soon afterwards, Finnish and Swedish earned constitutional equality as the country's "national languages." The practical application was the 1922 legislation on language and its amendments in 1935, 1962, and 1975. A broad reform of the legislation is currently in process and scheduled to be implemented in 2004.

88. The Languages Of The Russian Federation Today The languages of the larger minority peoples are covered by Solncev Finally,the number of the indigenous languages of Siberia and Arctic Russia is 59. http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/rf.html

A chapter of the article "Minority languages in a society in turmoil: the case of the northern languages of the Russian Federation" published in Endangered languages: what role for the specialist? Proceedings of the Second FEL Conference (Editor: Nicholar Ostler; Edinburgh 1998) on pp. 5863 Tapani Salminen The languages of the Russian Federation today In what follows, the languages of European Russia and Caucasia are dealt with briefly, and the situation of the indigenous languages of Siberia and Arctic Russia is presented in more detail. The degree of endangerment is evaluated along the scale "not endangered endangered seriously endangered nearly extinct extinct", which broadly corresponds to the basic viability classes in Krauss (1997), who also deals with most though not all of the Siberian languages. The number of minority languages whose principal area has traditionally lain within the borders of the Russian Federation is, according to the present count, 110; this figure does not include the majority language Russian nor non-territorial minority languages like Romani and Yiddish; also excluded are dialects of major languages of neighbouring countries though some of them will be mentioned below. The number of officially recognized minority languages is a bit lower, because in a few cases, notably Altai, Enets, Karelian, Khanty, Mansi, Mari, Nenets, Sámi, Selkup, Tat, Yukagir, and Yupik, idioms traditionally regarded as major dialects are, for compelling reasons, treated here as separate languages.

89. Romani Dance Page are many misconceptions about romani Dance (and also other indigenous dances) . romani dance not only represents the romani people, their culture and http://www.romani.org/local/roma_dance_art.html

Romani Dance - "Romano Kheliben" Links Roma to India Nadia Hava-Robbins, MA California, USA September, 1999 Note: This is the article as it appeared in Attendance It has been established by many scholars (Rishi, Hancock, Kochanowski, et al) that the Roma left India (our Baro Than, ie our homeland) nearly a thousand years ago. Early in the 11 th century, Muslim invasions into northern India were lead by Mahmed of Ghazni. The warriors assembled to fight these Muslim invasions and their camps gave rise to the modern Roma. They fled north through mountain passes in the upper Indus valley and traveled west along the "silk road", ultimately reaching eastern Europe early in the 14 th century. Most unfortunate is the term "Gypsy" which derives from the mistaken belief that the Roma had come from Egypt (or "little Egypt", the middle east), and the subsequent application of this term to many nomadic groups bearing no relation to the Roma. Thus, not all "Gypsies" are Roma, and not all Roma are nomadic!! There are many ways of communicating, without which there would be no history, literature, science, music, dance, nor art. Many linguists and scholars (Rishi, Hancock, Kochanovsky, et al)

90. EUROPA - Education And Training - Regional And Minority Languages Of The Europea In various parts of the European Union there are indigenous groups who speak a includes Yiddish and the languages of the romani and Sinti people, http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/langmin/regmin_en.ht

@import "../../../../css/advanced.css"; es da de el en fr it nl pt ... Index Since your browser is not configured to display JavaScript features the menu for this site is at the bottom of this page dqmcodebase = '/comm/education/js/' The languages of Europe Eurobarometer Survey Regional and minority languages Policy issues ... Useful links Regional and minority languages of the European Union In various parts of the European Union there are indigenous groups who speak a language different to that of the majority of the population of the state. It is estimated that as many as 40 million citizens of the Union regularly use a regional or minority language that has been passed on from generation to generation, generally in addition to the official language or languages of the state. The customary definition of regional or minority language is that used in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages , an international treaty supervised by the Council of Europe and adopted by many EU Member States, i.e. languages traditionally used by part of the population of a state that are not dialects of official languages of the state, languages of migrants or artificially created languages. This definition covers a wide variety of languages and an equally wide variety of social, political and linguistic situations. Catalan, for example, is spoken by some 7 million people in Spain, France and the town of Alghero in Sardinia. Most Catalan speakers live in autonomous communities of Spain where it is spoken by the majority of the population and has official status alongside Spanish. Saami, in contrast, is a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Kola peninsula of Russia, some members of which have only a few hundred speakers and are in imminent danger of extinction.

91. UNITED NATIONS Press Release Xxxxxxxxxx INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR Since then, she had become active in getting indigenous people involved in For most indigenous people, racial discrimination was at the root of their http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/479BE053E0E34C16C1256E60002FF9A2?op

92. R56_yachay)wasi_eng In June 2001, Yachay Wasi held its first Encounter of indigenous From 1985,his photographs of his people and Inka places have been exhibited in USA, http://www.ertn.org/R56_yachay_wasi_eng.htm

YACHAY WASI RUNA SIMI (Quechua) is the Inka language still spoken by the descendants of this ancient civilization. The Inka empire was called TAWANTINSUYU (the Four Quarters) and extended through South America. The Four Quarters were: NORTE /Northeast - Antisuyu SUDESTE/Southeast - Qollasuyu SUDOESTE/Southwest - Kuntisuyu NOROESTE/Northwest - Chinchaysuyu Yachay Wasi has now long term cultural and sustainable development projects in the Qosqo (Cuzco) region, such as the Centro Cultural Yachay Wasi, runasimi in the Andean village of Acopia, which includes traditional textiles preservation and production. Yachay Wasi sponsors occasional cultural tours to the Peruvian Andes. In June 2001, Yachay Wasi held its first Encounter of Indigenous Communities in the High Andes in Acopia, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.Its second Andean Encounter took place on November 2003. In New York City, Yachay Wasi participates in environmental festivals with an informative display and is very much involved in United Nations social issues such as the Commission on Sustainable Development, the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and most of all the sessions of the recently established ECOSOC subsidiary body: the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues In 2003, Yachay wasi collaborated with UNESCO NY Office to organize the first commemoration of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21 at UN Hqrs. It was a side event to the Second Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

93. OneWorld AIDSRadio - 15th Annual Human Rights And People's Diplomacy Programme It was people?s diplomacy and civil society advocacy that forced East Timor human rights defenders in the AsiaPacific Region and indigenous people. http://www.aidschannel.org/article/view/76726/1/

FAQ Contact Us Feedback News ... Africa Search for Login Join us Print version 15th Annual Human Rights and People's Diplomacy Programme The Diplomacy Training Program will be conducted for Human Rights Defenders from the Asia-Pacific Region and Indigenous in Australia. Diplomacy Training Programme, logo The training program will be held in cooperation with the Peace and Democracy Foundation in East Timor from 7th to 25th February 2005. The East Timorese struggle for human rights has attracted worldwide support and solidarity. It was people’s diplomacy and civil society advocacy that forced East Timor onto the global agenda. Today the East Timorese face new challenges in the realization of their human rights as one of the poorest nations on earth. For these reasons and more, East Timor is a fitting host and location for human rights defenders from the region to come together to share experiences, to learn from each other, and to work with DTPI’s expert resource people to develop their knowledge and skills. How should apply for this training The Diplomacy Training Programs Annual Training is particularly for women and men from Asia-Pacific countries and Indigenous Australia who work for non-government and community-based organizations relevant to human rights and peoples diplomacy.

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