West Papua Project - Geneva for Human Rights

DECOLONISATION & DECONSTRUCTION - what should we keep, or not ....

food for thoughts

GENDER CENTRE RESEARCH WORKSHOP
28 February 2024, 10:00 - 29 February 2024, 15:30
Maison de la paix | Room P1 862

The Gender Centre research workshop will provide an opportunity for our affiliates (faculty, PhD researchers, research fellows, and visiting fellows) to present and discuss their work-in-progress with colleagues.

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
28 February

10:00-12:00: Panel 1: Decolonization, Development, and International Organizations

Nivedita Joon, “Sisterhood and Solidarity at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976” (Commentator: Umut Yildirim)
Nicolas Hafner, “Decolonisation and Geneva as a Third World Development Studies Hub, c. 1961-1981” (Commentator: Claire Somerville)
Rafael Carrano Lelis, “The Q***r International: Global South activists and narratives in the transnational LGBTI advocacy at the United Nations” (Commentator: Aditya Bharadwaj)
13h30-15h30: Panel 2: Peace and Violence (hybrid session: link)

Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, “Where are the women, where is feminism? The importance of recognition of women as political actors within the peace agreement implementation in Colombia” (Commentator: Kristen McNeill)
Olha Gazziero Mykytyn, “Militarization and war crimes committed in Ukraine by Russian Forces: addressing the issue from a feminist approach” (Commentator: Lisa Prügl)
Alessia Nicastro, “Violence, power, and women. A discussion on femicide in war-torn contexts” (Commentator: Julie Billaud)
29 February

10h00-12h00: Panel 3: Care Work and Social Reproduction (hybrid session: link)

Luisa Lupo, “Planting precarity: The reproduction of labour in Turkey’s agri-work system” (Commentator: Nicole Bourbonnais)
Raksha Gopal, “Mothers on the move: The politics of displaced mothers in South Asia” (Commentator: Aditya Bharadwaj)
Shoko Aikawa, “Adherence to Masculine Norms and Fathering Behaviours in East Asia: Measuring from emotional expression and gender role ideology” (Commentator: Sungmin Rho)
13h30-15h30: Panel 4: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Justice

Caroline Rusterholz, “The racialisation of sexual and reproductive health in postcolonial Britain (1950s to 1980s)” (Commentator: Mischa Suter)
Naomi Samake-Bäckert, “Building my literature review: A historiography of SRH activism in Britain, 1970-2000” (Commentator: Claire Somerville)
George Severs, “Oral histories of race and sexual and reproductive health in Britain” (Commentator: Nicole Bourbonnais)

Gender Centre research workshop | IHEID "The Institute is a small and diverse community, where people are passionate and empowered by their specific interests in Academia and their professional lives. It has been particularly enriching for me to be part of this tight-knit community."

DECOLONISING THE 'SYSTEMS' - DEBTS & OBLIGATIONS

some say: don't we owe the one owned, racialised, gendered, discriminated....?

''A clear example of the need to re-frame obligation lies in the fact that Western financial bodies are willing to forgive some of Ukraine’s debt in the face of war but not that of Barbados in the face of climate emergency exacerbated by war.''

''What Monture teaches resonates with what Hall diagnosed in his 1966 essay “Political Commitment”—that the work of politics needs to “connect experience with demands in a meaningful relationship” and “connect awareness of the nature of the system to aspiration, and aspiration for change to the
agencies of change” .

On Conceptual Sufficiency: Humanity in Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and John Brown
Benjamin P. Davis

ABSTRACT: In this essay, I read Stuart Hall’s idea of “politics without guarantees” as meaning that all concepts are saturated with history and that no use of a concept can prevent it from being co-opted. The contribution of this reading is that it
shifts the task of critical theory: if all concepts carry limitations and can be used to advance domination, then critical theorists need not search for pure concepts or worry about how to prevent our concepts from being captured. Instead, our task
is to strategically leverage always already imperfect concepts with a view toward shared political goals. For an example of this kind of critical theory, I look to W. E.

B. Du Bois’s uses of “human,” “humanity,” and “human rights” in Black Reconstruction, which I suggest were informed by how he came to understand “humanity” in John Brown.

Since cultural diversity is, increasingly, the fate of the modern world, and ethnic absolutism a regressive feature of late-modernity, the greatest danger now arises from forms of
national and cultural identity—new or old—that attempt to secure their identity by adopting
closed versions of culture or community, and by the refusal to engage with the difficult problems that arise from trying to live with difference. The capacity to live with difference is, in
my view, the coming question of the twenty-first century.
—Stuart Hall, “Our Mongrel Selves” (1992)

www.pdcnet.org

"THIS MEANS THAT EVERY 'CIVILIZED' MEN IS PART AND PARCEL OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEMS AND IS DEPENDING FOR HIS WALFARE AND CONVENIENCE, NOT TO MENTION HIS LUXURY, UPON THE DEGRADATION ON OF THE MAJORITY OF HUMANS"

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Human rights for all minorities, April 29, 1947
Typed draft of speech given on the steps of City Hall seeking unity among all minority groups in the struggle for human rights.





https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/pageturn/mums312-b198-i055/ /12/mode/1up

Expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples:

Call for submissions

Report on "The militarization of indigenous land: a human rights focus."

Background

Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, during its fourteenth session in 2021, the Expert Mechanism confirmed its decision to prepare a report on the militarization of indigenous land.

Presentation

A draft report will be introduced by the Expert Mechanism at its annual session, due to take place from 11 to 15 July 2022, after which it will be finalised and presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session in September 2022.

Call

The Expert Mechanism hereby requests contributions from Indigenous Peoples, States, National Human Rights Institutions, academics and other stakeholders for this report.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to [email protected] no later than 31 January 2022, in English, French or Spanish, in WORD format and no longer than 5 pages.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/Report-Militarization-Indigenous-Land.aspx

OHCHR | Report on the militarization of indigenous land Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, during its fourteenth session in 2021, the Expert Mechanism confirmed its decision to prepare a report on the militarization of indigenous land.

Expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples: Call for submissions

Report on "The militarization of indigenous land: a human rights focus."
Background

Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, during its fourteenth session in 2021, the Expert Mechanism confirmed its decision to prepare a report on the militarization of indigenous land.

Presentation

A draft report will be introduced by the Expert Mechanism at its annual session, due to take place from 11 to 15 July 2022, after which it will be finalised and presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-first session in September 2022.

Call

The Expert Mechanism hereby requests contributions from Indigenous Peoples, States, National Human Rights Institutions, academics and other stakeholders for this report.

Submissions should be sent by e-mail to [email protected] no later than 31 January 2022, in English, French or Spanish, in WORD format and no longer than 5 pages.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Pages/Report-Militarization-Indigenous-Land.aspx

OHCHR | Report on the militarization of indigenous land Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 33/25, during its fourteenth session in 2021, the Expert Mechanism confirmed its decision to prepare a report on the militarization of indigenous land.

WEST PAPUA - REPRISALS AGAINST HUMAN & ENVIRONEMENTAL RIGHTS DEFENDERS

Human Rights Council - Forty-eighth session
Agenda items 2 and 5

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of
the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
REPORT ON REPRISALS

Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights*, *

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Reprisals/A_HRC_48_28.docx

QUOTE:
Indonesia

70. It was reported to OHCHR that individuals and communities were threatened, harassed and surveilled by State and non-State actors for cooperation and sharing of information with the UN, in particular on indigenous communities and land-related rights. Past incidents were not included in previous reports due to a fear of further reprisals.

71. Special procedures mandate holders addressed the criminalization and intimidation of human rights defenders in the Papua and West Papua provinces (IDN 2/2020), including Mr. Wensislaus Fatubun, adviser of the Papuan People’s Assembly, who regularly provides documentation, testimony and analyses to the UN. They also addressed the case of Mr. Yones Douw, a member of the indigenous Me tribe, who documents alleged violations in West Papua (IDN 2/2020), and who was targeted for reporting to OHCHR.

72. It was reported to OHCHR that journalist Mr. Victor Mambor and human rights lawyer Ms. Veronica Koman (IDN 7/2019) faced threats, harassment and intimidation for their reporting on West Papua and Papua provinces, including to UN human rights mechanisms, and for attending UN meetings for which they were questioned by security forces.

73. It was reported to OHCHR that Mr. Victor Yeimo, spokesperson of the West Papua National Committee, was arrested in May 2021 and accused of inciting riots and treason following, inter alia, his call for self-determination of the Papuan people at the Human Rights Council in March 2019.
74. On 12 August 2021, the Government responded.

UNQUOTE

Af Wensi Victor Yeimo