Let anyone who is not concerned with politics be reassured: the latter will end up taking care of him.
I have worked with international NGOs in the capital of human rights, Geneva. I cofounded one of them, and founded yet another in Latin America. I know the international world as a practitioner and it seems necessary to me to denounce the damaging activities of UN Watch. The latter has been around for two decades and is damaging the international system by distorting the general public's perception of the institutions. When lies and biases are produced with the sole aim…
Time is running out. In Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru, we continue to lose the Amazon. The medicines we take come from the Amazon. Gold, cobalt, wood, meat and much more are extracted from the Amazon every day. Does this mean that our species is doomed? No, we refuse to be fatalistic. The Guardians of the Amazon was born on 3 April 2024. This is a new kind of Colombian NGO, designed to unite modern people and indigenous populations to…
One might think that to get closer to the heavens, the mountain peaks would be our best stairs, that their erect phalanges holding the clouds in their course would offer mountaineers a unique spectacle of the union of the top and the bottom, between Ouranos and Gaïa. I discovered that this is not the case: the most suitable place to witness the birth of Chronos and Time is the Salar de Uyuni, in Bolivia. Covering an area of 10,500 km2…
This is a response to the very deep and knowledgeable article written by Stephen Corry, The best conservationists made our environment and can save it. Stephen is the director of the formidable NGO Survival International. He has field expertise and a deep philosophical approach to indigenous people. He does not fell in the trap of the 19th century's romanticism or 18th century's Rousseauism. He has developed a personal philosophy on how modernity can accommodate with indigenous people, based on years…
Safari Club International is an extremely efficient lobbying organisation that may have made a mistake demonstrating how powerful they are. During the "African Wildlife Consultative Forum" in Arusha, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lifted the ban on import of Zimbabwe elephant trophies. The problem is that Safari Club International announced the ban as aiming not only to Zimbabwe, but also to Zambia. Should we expect soon a new lift, due to the pressure of the hunter's lobbying group? Who…
A long time ago, I considered Cuba as a power against a uniform, unequal and tough Western-driven world. Cuba was the sand in the gears, reminding everybody that women’s rights and minorities’ rights have to stay high on the agenda. This was my belief until I started working in the human rights field. Whilst it is true that Cuba is facing one of the most prominent long-lasting injustices of our time (the US Embargo), the Caribbean Island is also creating…
Here is an article Oksana Chelysheva sent me few days ago. How embarrassing it is for European people. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, 06.09.2008 (translated from Russian and abridged) http://www.kasparov.ru Yesterday, I was asked to formulate my suggestions to European politicians who will take part in the next OSCE meeting on the human dimension. The question I was asked was: "What should European politicians do to defend civic society, civic and political activists in Russia?" I find it very hard to formulate my…
