A refugee said "I cannot go back to my country because of the following points: 1. Imprisonment and Persecution 2. Torture and punishment 3. Electric torture 4. Beating with the stick on the feet (corporal punishment) 5. threatening me to be killed 6. Lack of human rights organizations which can lobby against human rights violation in the country. 7. Threatening to abuse my family members. 8. Demolition of my house. Due to all that I can’t go back".

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Sep 8, 2009

5th September International Peace Conference

in ShannonInternational Peace Conference War, NATO and the Lisbon TreatySaturday 5th of September 2009 Park Inn, Shannon Airport, Co. Clare, IrelandSpeakers: * Joe Higgins (MEP) Socialist Party * Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Fein * Patricia McKenna The People's Movement * Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett Irish Anti-War Movement * Ed Horgan Peace & Neutrality Alliance * Reiner Braun The Anti-NATO Network * Christophe Ventura Parti De Gauche * Jeremy Corbyn British Labour Party * Harry Bommel Dutch Socialist Party * John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus USA * Tobias Pfluger Die Linke * George Karabelias Greek historian and Rixi journalTime Table:Registration 9.15 - 10.00First Session 9.45 - 11.15War and Shannon . Two main speakers of 10 mins each: Ed Horgan andJan O'Sullivan - local Limerick based TD. The first to focus on theairport, the troops and implications the second on the responses ofthe political establishment including her own party....Chair: Carol Fox (PANA)Coffee Break 11.15 - 11.30Second Session 11.30 - 13.15Lisbon Speakers: Sinn Fein (Mary Lou McDonald or Theresa Ferris),Socialist Party (Joe Higgins), Peoples Movement (Patricia McKenna) andRichard Boyd Barrett (SWP and People Before Profit) - ten minutes each.Chair Michael Youlton (IAWM).Lunch Break 13.15 - 14.00 - Sandwiches, coffee/ tea etc from hotel.Third Session 14.00 - 16.00The militarisation of Europe and NATO: Speakers Kate Hudson or Jeremy Corbyn(UK CND), Tobias Pfluger (Die - Linke /European Parliament) andChristophe Ventura from the Parti de Gauche - Fifteen minutes each. Chair: Roger Cole (PANA).Fourth Session 16.15 - 18.30.The new International post- Obama Environment: Speakers John Feiffer(co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus), Harry Bommel from theDutch Socialist Party, Reiner Braun of the Network who organised theStrasbourg anti-NATO mobilisation and George Karabelias - from Rixi -Greece.Chair: Ailbhe Smyth (People Before Profit)Lunch is available in the hotel restaurant. Accommodation is also available.Contact the Park Hotel, Shannon Airport for accommodation: €80 B&B perroom per person sharing, €85 B&B for single.Tel: +353 61 471 122The Conference is being organised jointly by the Peace & Neutrality Allianceand the Irish Anti-War Movement. For more details contact PANA at: +3531 2351512Roger Cole, Chair, Peace & Neutrality Alliance, Ireland www.pana.ie A bus will be leaving at 6.00 from Heuston Station returning in the evening -to book a place contact Michael Youlton 086 815 9487 or myouilton@yahoo.comif interested.www.irishantiwar.org======================================================================To set-up a standing order with the Irish-Anti War Movement please go to the following link http://www.irishantiwar.org/files/standing-order-form.doc fill in the form and post to the Irish Anti-War Movement P.O. Box 9260 Dublin 1.To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a message to info@irishantiwar.org with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.If you have subscribed using the button on the web site you can unsubscirbe this way as well.To contact the webmaster send an email to webmaster@irishantiwar.org or ring +353 0 878289243Irish Anti-War MovementTel (fixed) 353 (0) 1 8727912, Tel (mobile) 353 (0) 87 6329511 Postal Address Irish Anti-War MovementPO Box 9260Dublin 1

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