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‘Heroes Of Our Time: the Top 50’

 New Statesman Magazine Cover Story

During Spring 2006 the international politics/current affairs journal New Statesman conducted a vote among readers for the top 50 heroes of our time. The definition of a hero: ‘A man or woman whose actions have been in the service of the greater good  and whose influence is national or international: someone who is prepared  to act in pursuit of a freer, more equitable and democratic future, without recourse to violence’.

The response, published as the magazine’s cover story in May, is ‘as surprising in its range and unpredictability as it was overwhelming’ though the first three are to be expected, world figures Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela and Bob Geldof.  No. 49 is leading theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, and No 50, Andrew Flintoff, famous English cricketer.

Quite a few respondents thought the magazine meant ‘people for our time’ rather than people alive and active now, so Winston Churchill and Jesus received a lot of votes.  

Of the 50 who topped the poll, 10 are female (20%), out of whom 5 are British: Democracy/post-conflict reconstruction specialist Lesley Abdela, Shami Chakrabarti, Queen Elizabeth 11, Helena Kennedy QC, Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher. 

Other women on the Top 50 list include American, Australian, Burmese, Irish and Russian.

See complete poll on www.newstatesman.com/200605220016

Campaigners ranked significantly, hence Bob Dylan (37^th) and Bono (30^th), Aung San Suu Kyi (1^st), Mordechai Vanunu (24^th), Lesley  Abdela (34^th), Helena Kennedy (40^th), Noam Chomsky (7^th) and John Pilger (4^th).

Women voted into the top 50 Heroes of our Time:

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy campaigner (1^st)

Margaret Thatcher, UK Prime Minister 1979-90 (5^th)

Mary Robinson, Ethical Globalisation Initiative, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (20^th)

Germaine Greer, Academic and Broadcaster, author of ‘The Female Eunuch’ (25^th)

Elizabeth 11, most travelled head of state in history (33^rd)

Lesley Abdela, international Champion of Women’s Rights, specialist in ‘gender in post-deadly conflict reconstruction’ (Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Aceh, Sierra Leone) (34^th) (lesley.abdela@shevolution.com).

Shami Chakrabarti, Civil liberties campaigner, Director of human-rights group Liberty (35^th)

Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist reporting on Chechnya war (39th)

Helena Kennedy QC, leading British lawyer, especially on social justice (40^th) 

Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prizewinner novelist on black America (48^th)

Voted among the Top 50 male heroes of our time are (not in order) –

Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, writing on poverty, welfare and development (29^th)

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, with his wife Melinda one of the greatest philanthropists (8^th)

Dalai Lama, Buddhist spiritual leader (9th)

Hans Blix, former UN weapons inspector (15th)

Tony Benn, former Cabinet Minister, veteran anti-war campaigner (12^th)

Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, relinquished power to help bring Cold War to an end (13^th)

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the worldwide web (28^th)

Jimmy Carter, former US President, founder of the Carter  Center, dedicated to alleviating poverty (41^st)

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary theorist (26^th)

Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, ‘banker to the poor’ (22^nd)

John Carr, international Internet safety expert, advises on protecting children from the dangers of the web (42^nd)

Peter Tatchell, co-founder of OutRage, who attempted citizen’s arrest on Robert Mugabe (6^th)

New Statesman magazine: tel. +44 20 7730 3444, fax +44 20 7259 0181 website: www.newstatesman.com e-mail info@newstatesman.co.uk

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Dear friends,

Please distribute the below-mentioned letter through all the possible
channels.

Thank you.
Best regards,
Susanna Vardanyan,
Women's Rights Center,
Armenia

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Dear Colleagues,
Dear Friends,

I am addressing this challenging letter to you in response to the
urgent message which I received from International Federation for
Human Rights and the World Organization against Torture,
announcing about gross human rights violation in Uzbekistan.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, the joint program
of the International Federation for Human Rights and the World
Organization against Torture, requests the immediate intervention
of human rights organizations in the following situation in the country.

Mrs.Mukhtabar Tojibieva, head of the "Goryachie serdca" ("Hot
Hearts")human rights organization from Margilana (Fergana Valley)
was arrested on October 7, 2005 and was sentenced to 8 years of
imprisonment. Now she has been removed from her prison cell into the
psychiatric department for the mentally disordered and drug users of
the Tashkent Center for Convicts.
On July 13, 2006 Ms. Tojibieva's attorney was allowed to meet her; she
had both her hands tied.
Since that time no other meetings were allowed and no official replies
were given to the attorney's inquiry on the reasons of Ms. Tojibieva's
removal. According to the attorney Ms. Tojibieva was
depressed and looked very weak.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights expresses its deep
concerns for Mrs. Tojibieva's detention.

Being the President of a human rights organization in Armenia,I am also
deeply concerned about the issue. I was shocked when I received this
message. I have met this woman in Tashkent. She is a cheerful,
communicative and open-minded person. I just don't understand
what this woman could have done that authorities pursue her in such a
manner. This is really unfair.

I am sure I am entitled on behalf of human rights organizations in
Armenia to send you our request to intervene in the process of
releasing Mukhtabar and to demand the Uzbek authorities
to take certain steps, including the following:

1. to guarantee Ms. Tojibieva's physical and mental immunity under any
circumstances,
2. to put an end to all forms of torture against Ms. Tojibieva,
3. to release Ms. Tojibieva immediately since her detention is
ungrounded.

The contact addresses by which you may send your challenge to Uzbek
authorities are listed below.

1. President of Uzbekistan, Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov,
ul. Uzbekistanskaya 43, Rezidentsia prezidenta, 700163
Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan,
Fax: +998 71 133 7258, E-mail:
presidents_office@press-service.uz

2. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Elyor Majidovich Ganiev,
Respublika Uzbekistan; 700029 g. Tashkent; pl. Mustakillik, 5;
Ministerstvo inostrannykh del RU, S.S., Uzbekistan, Fax: + 998
71 139 15 17.

3. Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Sayora
Rashidova, ul. Xalqlar Dostligi 1, 700035 Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan,
Fax: +998 71 139 85 55, E-mail: office@ombudsman.gov.uz

4. Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan,
Ubaydulla Mingbaev, Respublika Uzbekistan; 700183 g. Tashkent;
ul. Abdulla Kodiri, 1; Verkhovny Sud Respubliki Uzbekistan

5. General Prosecutor of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Rashidjon
Hamidovich Kodirov,
ul. Gulyamova 66, 700047 Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan,
Fax: +998 71 133 39 17, E-mail: prokuratura@lawyer.com

6. National Centre for Human Rights, Senator Akmal Saidov
Natsionalny tsentr po pravam cheloveka,
5/3, Mustakillik Maidoni, g. Tashkent, Respublika Uzbekistan.
700029,
Fax: + 998 71 139 13 56 / 45 16, E-mail: office@nchr.uz

7. Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Permanent
Mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United Nations in
Geneva,
PO Box 1853, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland, Fax: +4122 799 43
02,
E-mail: uzbekistan@bluewin.ch

Please do everything in your power to help this very outstanding
woman. Please send this information towards all possible directions.

Thank you for your solidarity!

Sincerely,
Susanna Vardanyan
President
Women's Rights Center
Tel/Fax: (374 10) 58.36.18;
Tel.: (374 10) 54.28.28
e-mail: wrcarm@arminco.com
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**PLEASE DISSEMINATE WIDELY**
(apologies for cross-posting)
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**GENDERIT.ORG EDITION: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & INFORMATION**
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I. Small Thoughts Around:
* Freedom of Expression & Information
II. New Articles:
*Community radios and feminist voices against repression in Brazil
*Tools for Communication Rights in Malaysia
*Culture, local traditions, and taboo - Challenges to the full
expression of women's voices
*A 'Women's Commons'? An Exploratory Dialogue on the Potential of the
Knowledge Commons for Women
*Will women really benefit from the digital revolution?
III. Featured Resources:
*Access Denied: The Impact of Internet Filtering Software on the
Lesbian and Gay [version 2.0.]
* The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook
* Gender Harassment on the Internet
IV. Call for Contributors
V. New Features

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I. SMALL THOUGHTS AROUND...
*Freedom of Expression & Information*

World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on 3rd of May. Yet this year
alone, 21 individuals all over the world have been killed because of
their work as journalists, and many more are missing (Committee to
Project Journalists). As new digital communications technologies enable
new opportunities for the creation, expression and dissemination of
news and perspectives, these spaces are not invincible from the policing of
State and other equally impactful, but often submerged, socio-political
norms. GenderIT.org explores the gender dimension of freedoms of the
freedoms of expression and information.

This edition has been difficult in coming. We arranged for an interview
between guest writer and ICTs advocate, Katrin Verclas, with Manal
Hassan, a prominent communications rights activist based in Egypt. This
was also aimed to be in support of Alaa Abdel Fatah, her partner and
also active blogger on freedom of speech, who was detained together
with more than 300 activists during a peaceful protest on 7th May 2006. They
were arrested under the Egyptian Emergency Laws allows for 15 days
detention without trial that can be indefinitely renewed. More than a
month later, and after a third renewal of the 15 days detention, Alaa
is freed and continues to blog with Manal in follow-up of the other
activists still in detention [http://www.manalaa.net/].

On 12 June 2006, several thousand participants in a peaceful women's
rights protest who demanded changes to family laws and legal
discrimination against women in Tehran faced extreme violence. A large
number of police and security forces arrived at the scene, and ended
the protest by attacking the crowd with batons, and pepper gas. According
to the spokesperson for Ministry of Justice , 70 persons were arrested
during the course of this protest. However, this does not include the
arrests that happened prior to the protest, where women's rights
activists, student activists and also bloggers were summoned to court
and interrogated. Since then, others have been summoned for
interrogation by phone or in writing, including Sussan T, an active
women's rights and ICTs advocate from Iran. We contacted Sussan to help
render visible the situation that women rights activists are currently
facing in Iran, and to issue a call for support.

Understandably, at such critical moments, finding time and resources to
write or engage in interviews is difficult. Prioritising the urgency of
these two events, genderIT.org decided to postpone the edition for a
month while attempting to continue our contact with both Manal and
Sussan. It has been a troubled month of silence.

These two events demonstrate louder than ever that the spaces for us to
freely speak our minds, opine our thoughts, access information and
engage in democratic processes is narrowing. As such, this edition is
also a call for the renewal of commitment towards these fundamental
freedoms.

For more information about the situation in Iran, please visit:
[http://www.wluml.org/english/actionsfulltxt.shtml?cmd%5B156%5D=i-156-538618.]

For the status of the internet in Iran, see: "Access is denied: a
report on the status of the internet in Iran"
[http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=r90480-e91926-1]

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II. NEW ARTICLES
*Community radios and feminist voices against repression in Brazil*
The repression against community radios in Brazil reaches important
social projects and initiatives such as Novo Ar - a community
association and radio station led by Gra?a Rocha. In this interview to
GenderIT, Gra?a provides details about the repression that Brazilian
community radios experience and highlights the critical role that women
play in the radio and in the community: "women resist better. Here in
Novo Ar, women are the majority -- and although we feel exhausted
sometimes, we never give up, we keep struggling".
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=94794

* Tools for Communication Rights in Malaysia*
Jac sm Kee speaks with one of the most vocal media and communication
rights advocate in Malaysia, Sonia Randhawa, through an online
messenger platform about motivations, communication technologies, rights,
democracy, tactics and gender. Sonia currently sits as the Executive
Director of the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ). Apart from
conducting regular trainings on independent media and communications
strategies, CIJ is also developing community radio programmes that
innovatively combine "old" and "new" technologies -- radio and the
internet -- through Radiq Radio.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=a&x=94522

*Culture, local traditions, and taboo - Challenges to the full
expression of women's voices*
Popular communicators that work in community radio-telecentres in
different states of Brazil talk about their achievements and
apprehensions concerning the complete freedom to express themselves. As
members of the Cyberela Network (Red Cyberela) developed by the
feminist organisation Cemina, the communicators explain the reasons behind their
self-censorship and how they gradually overcome taboos and prejudices
through their work with microphones and screens.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e94775-1&x=94775

*A Women's 'Commons'? An Exploratory Dialogue on the Potential of the
Knowledge Commons for Women*
The idea of the 'commons' has been contestedly understood as being both
a principle of understanding content and creative products, and a
community that supports the sharing of information and creative
content.
It is also directly linked with subverting current Intellectual
Property Rights paradigms, where ownership and control of information,
knowledge, and content has been commodified. So what exactly is so 'new' about the
'commons'? Looking at the four paradigms where ideas about the
'commons' are supposed to operate, perhaps it is possible to see if developments
towards a Knowledge Commons resonates with feminist tactics/agendas/isms.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e94793-1&x=94793

*Will women really benefit from the digital revolution?*
The book "The Gender Digital Divide in Francophone Africa, a Harsh
Reality" written by Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla has just been translated
into English by APC, the Association for Progressive Communications. On
this occasion, Sylvie Niombo, Deputy Coordinator of APC's Africa-Women
Programme, interviewed Marie-Helene on the content of the book.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e94795-1&x=94795

Visit the collection of a wide variety of other resources and articles
related to this issue on the communication rights section:
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=i90480-e--1

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III. RESOURCES

*Access Denied: The Impact of Internet Filtering Software on the
Lesbian and Gay [version 2.0.]*
A survey of how internet filtering software, and ratings systems affect
the lesbian and gay community. "Access Denied" contains sections
analysing the legal, political and social implications of enforced
invisibility on the web. It also includes testimonials from lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender persons, who are those most directly
affected by the lack of access to important information via the web or
internet. The report offers recommendations for industry leaders on how
to make the internet both friendly and fair.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=r&x=94799

*The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook*
The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook offers recommendations and best
practices, the results from the 2004 Amsterdam Internet Conference of
the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Among others, it looks
at "The Role of Filtering Software in Internet Content Regulation", and
documenting the number of cases how the filters may 'accidentally'
censor websites, and educational materials regarding AIDS, drug abuse
prevention, sexual and reproductive rights, or teenage pregnancy.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=r&x=94798

*Gender Harassment on the Internet*
The paper examines the nature and types of gender harassment occurring
on the net, including possible causes of this online offense. It also
explores whether online gender harassment rises to the level of an
actionable claim, and will examine some of the inherent problems in
pursuing such claims, as well as pursuing criminal charges against
offenders.
http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?w=r&x=91153

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IV. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

GenderIT.org is *still* calling for contributors :)

If you have something exciting to share, or if we can help communicate
your event, campaign, insights and reflections to a wider audience,
please send us an email (jac AT apcwomen DOT org).

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V. NEW FEATURES for GenderIT.org readers

GenderIT.org has recently launched a RSS feed, which stands for Really
Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. This function allows you to
receive the alerts about the latest content from the GenderIT.org
English or Spanish version of website straight to your computer as soon
as it is available online.

To subscribe to RSS feed for GenderIT.org
Articles:http://www.genderit.org/aa/view.php?vid=725&nocache=1
To subscribe to RSS feed for GenderIT.org
Art?culos:http://www.genderit.org/aa/view.php?vid=732&nocache=1
To subscribe to RSS feed for GenderIT.org Feminist Talk/Conversaciones
Feministas:http://www.genderit.org/aa/view.php?vid=688&nocache=1

For more details about what is RSS, why is it useful, and how it works,
see our help page: http://www.genderit.org/en/rsshelp.php

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