From eb246 at columbia.edu  Mon May  3 14:11:20 2004
From: eb246 at columbia.edu (Erkanda Bujari)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:11:20 -0700
Subject: [NYC-L] [Fwd: FW: BOOK READING tuesday ON KOSOVO WAR AND THE NEW
	YORK CONNECTION]
Message-ID: <40968B48.8020906@columbia.edu>


-FYI

 

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For anyone interested in the Balkans, or just a well-told tale, 
journalist Stacy Sullivan will be reading from her new book, "Be Not 
Afraid For You Have Sons in America." It is the story of

an ethnic Albanian immigrant to New York who launched a guerrilla army 
in Kosovo from his

Brooklyn roofing company. The official publication date is May 25, but 
Sullivan is

reading at KGB on Tuesday night, May 4, at 7 PM.

 

KGB Bar

85 East 4th Street

New York, NY 10003

(212) 505 3360

 

what other writers say about the book:

 

Thanks to years of reporting, Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down the

inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerrilla army in the

Balkans. With her remarkable tales of gun-running, intrigue, high politics,

and murder, Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that reads

more like a crime thriller. She has also offered a disturbing glimpse behind

the scenes of one of the only wars ever waged on humanitarian grounds.

Samantha Power - author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem From Hell."

 

 

Stacy Sullivan allows us to peer into the shadowy world of revolutionaries,

gangsters, gun runners and war profiteers who work below the surface of

every conflict.  Her story is as timeless as it is compelling.  She

chronicles the awful machinery of war, the high idealism and base cynicism,

the brutal politics and utopian visions, which propel young men into

battlefields and often leaves them broken and scarred.  She captures,

through her dogged reporting, the dark and frightening labyrinth of war.

Chris Hedges - author of NYT bestseller "War is A Force That Gives Us

Meaning."

 

 

 "Be Not Afraid'" is a war reporting tour de force - tough, thorough, and

gut-wrenching. In the tradition of Anthony Lukas' "Common Ground" Stacy

Sullivan gives us an unforgettable character - the avenging Brooklyn emigre

Florin Krasniqi - to capture the full emotional toll of a brutal war we only

thought we understood.

Todd Balf, author of NYT bestseller "The Last River" and "The Darkest

Jungle."

 

 

 

Peter S. Green

Knight-Bagehot Fellow

Columbia University Graduate School of Business

400 West 119th Street

New York, NY 10027

Tel: 917 583 2390

Email: petergreen at pobox.com

 

 

 

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From jeton at hotmail.com  Mon May  3 11:32:17 2004
From: jeton at hotmail.com (Jeton Ademaj)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:32:17 -0400
Subject: [NYC-L] FW: BOOK READING tuesday ON KOSOVO WAR AND THE NEW YORK
	CONNECTION
Message-ID: <BAY9-F13aJQx5TFKtYP00008bdf@hotmail.com>

well, here come the literary profiteers!

head's up.


>To: <Harriman-news at columbia.edu>, <othereurope at columbia.edu>

>
>------------
>
>
>
>For anyone interested in the Balkans, or just a well-told tale,
>journalist Stacy Sullivan will be reading from her new book, "Be Not
>Afraid For You Have Sons in America." It is the story of
>
>an ethnic Albanian immigrant to New York who launched a guerrilla army
>in Kosovo from his
>
>Brooklyn roofing company. The official publication date is May 25, but
>Sullivan is
>
>reading at KGB on Tuesday night, May 4, at 7 PM.
>
>
>
>KGB Bar
>
>85 East 4th Street
>
>New York, NY 10003
>
>(212) 505 3360
>
>
>
>what other writers say about the book:
>
>
>
>Thanks to years of reporting, Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down
>the
>
>inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerrilla army in
>the
>
>Balkans. With her remarkable tales of gun-running, intrigue, high
>politics,
>
>and murder, Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that
>reads
>
>more like a crime thriller. She has also offered a disturbing glimpse
>behind
>
>the scenes of one of the only wars ever waged on humanitarian grounds.
>
>Samantha Power - author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem From Hell."
>
>
>
>
>
>Stacy Sullivan allows us to peer into the shadowy world of
>revolutionaries,
>
>gangsters, gun runners and war profiteers who work below the surface of
>
>every conflict.  Her story is as timeless as it is compelling.  She
>
>chronicles the awful machinery of war, the high idealism and base
>cynicism,
>
>the brutal politics and utopian visions, which propel young men into
>
>battlefields and often leaves them broken and scarred.  She captures,
>
>through her dogged reporting, the dark and frightening labyrinth of war.
>
>Chris Hedges - author of NYT bestseller "War is A Force That Gives Us
>
>Meaning."
>
>
>
>
>
>  "Be Not Afraid'" is a war reporting tour de force - tough, thorough,
>and
>
>gut-wrenching. In the tradition of Anthony Lukas' "Common Ground" Stacy
>
>Sullivan gives us an unforgettable character - the avenging Brooklyn
>emigre
>
>Florin Krasniqi - to capture the full emotional toll of a brutal war we
>only
>
>thought we understood.
>
>Todd Balf, author of NYT bestseller "The Last River" and "The Darkest
>
>Jungle."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Peter S. Green
>
>Knight-Bagehot Fellow
>
>Columbia University Graduate School of Business
>
>400 West 119th Street
>
>New York, NY 10027
>
>Tel: 917 583 2390
>
>Email: petergreen at pobox.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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From jeton at hotmail.com  Tue May  4 14:11:54 2004
From: jeton at hotmail.com (Jeton Ademaj)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:11:54 -0400
Subject: [NYC-L] gunshow mania
Message-ID: <BAY9-F11uakAxw6dsII0000f44c@hotmail.com>

hey all

sorry for the crossposting, but i just came across this golden nugget from 
Stacy Sullivan, on the website of the Serbian Unity Congress no less... i 
guess "gun control" makes for strange bedfellows...

http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/October_24/8.html

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From mentor at alb-net.com  Thu May  6 15:01:25 2004
From: mentor at alb-net.com (Kosova Crisis Center News and Information)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:01:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] [Kcc-News] Kosovo UN troops 'fuel sex trade'
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405061458360.26720@alb-net.com>

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Kosovo UN troops 'fuel sex trade'

Thursday, 6 May, 2004, 15:56 GMT 16:56 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3686173.stm

The presence of peacekeepers in Kosovo is fuelling the sexual exploitation
of women and encouraging trafficking, according to Amnesty International.
It claims UN and Nato troops in the region are using the trafficked women
and girls for sex and some have been involved in trafficking itself.

Amnesty says girls as young as 11 from eastern European countries are being
sold into the sex slavery.

A Nato spokesman said some details of the report seemed out of date.

Lieutenant Colonel Jim Moran said some policies had changed. Peacekeepers
were "not allowed" off base in civilian clothing or to go to bars and
nightclubs, he said.

"Each nation is responsible for the conduct of their soldiers, and if they
find a soldier that is breaking the law, it is up to them to bring them to
justice," he added.

There has been no comment from the UN.

Trading houses

Amnesty's report, entitled "So does that mean I have rights? Protecting the
human rights of women and girls trafficked for forced prostitution in
Kosovo," was published on Thursday.

 "I was forced by the boss to serve international soldiers and police
 officers" -- Trafficked woman who spoke to Amnesty

It is based on interviews with women and girls who have been trafficked
from countries such as Moldova, Bulgaria and the Ukraine to service
Kosovo's sex industry.

They are said to have been moved illegally across borders and sold in
"trading houses," where they are sometimes drugged and "broken in" before
being sold from one trafficker to another for prices ranging from 50 to
3,500 euros ($60 - 4,200).

The report includes harrowing testimonies of abduction, deprivation of
liberty and denial of freedom of movement, torture and ill-treatment,
including psychological threats, beatings and rape.

Instead of getting a proper job the women and girls find themselves
trapped, enslaved, forced into prostitution.

The report condemns the role of the international peacekeepers.

Slavery

It says that after 40,000 K-For troops and hundreds of Unmik personnel were
sent to Kosovo in 1999, a "small-scale local market for prostitution was
transformed into a large-scale industry based on trafficking run by
organised criminal networks".


 "Peacekeepers must be held accountable for their role in this trade in
  human misery" --
  Kate Allen, Amnesty International

The number of places in Kosovo where trafficked women and girls may be
exploited, such as nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and cafes, has
increased from 18 in 1999 to more than 200 in 2003.

The report claims international personnel make up about 20% of the people
using trafficked women and girls even though its members comprise only 2%
of Kosovo's population.

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said:

"Women and girls as young as 11 are being sold into sexual slavery in
Kosovo and international peacekeepers are not only failing to stop it they
are actively fuelling this despicable trade by themselves paying for sex
from trafficked women.

"It is time for countries to stop treating trafficking as a form of
'illegal migration' and see it as a particularly vicious form of human
rights abuse."

One woman told Amnesty International: "I was forced by the boss to serve
international soldiers and police officers... I never had a chance of
running away and leaving that miserable life, because I was observed every
moment by a woman."

Criminals

Another told how German soldiers were instructed by their superiors not to
go with prostitutes, but went anyway.

"They told the pimp, that if someone would be coming, he should alert
them," she said. "After a while the pimp employed a guardian."

Amnesty says that despite some positive measures by the authorities to
combat trafficking, the women and girls are often still treated as
criminals - prosecuted for being unlawfully in Kosovo, or charged with
prostitution.

Amnesty International is calling on the Kosovo authorities, including
Unmik, to: implement measures to end the trafficking of women and girls to,
from and within Kosovo for forced prostitution ensure that measures are
taken to protect the victims of trafficking ensure that those trafficked
have a right to redress and reparation for the human rights abuses they
have suffered

Amnesty says Unmik's own figures show that by the end of 2003, 10 of their
police officers had been dismissed or repatriated in connection with
allegations related to trafficking.

In the year and half to July 2003 some 22-27 K-For troops were suspected of
offences relating to trafficking, the report says.

However, Kfor troops and UN personnel are immune from prosecution in Kosovo
and those who have been dismissed relating to such offences have escaped
any criminal proceedings in their home countries.

Ms Allen added: "The international community in Kosovo is now adding insult
to injury by securing immunity from prosecution for its personnel and
apparently hushing up their shameful part in the abuse of trafficked women
and girls."

The organisation called on the UN and Nato to implement measures to ensure
that any personnel suspected of criminal offences associated with
trafficking are brought to justice.
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From jdhimitri at isb.icc-al.org  Fri May  7 03:40:18 2004
From: jdhimitri at isb.icc-al.org (Julia Dhimitri)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:40:18 +0200
Subject: [NYC-L] ISB questionnaire on Immigration
References: <408E9CD5.4000400@columbia.edu>
	<00cb01c42c6b$a5e66880$6acec7c7@Julia>
Message-ID: <003401c43406$8b8edba0$6acec7c7@Julia>

Dear All,

That is Julia. 

Forget about the deadline of 28 April, I still need the fulfilled questionnaire.

Warmly regards

Julia


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  From: Julia Dhimitri 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:23 PM
  Subject: [NYC-L] ISB questionnaire on Immigration


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  Hope all the best for you!

  Thank you for your time to answer the following questions, which will greatly contribute to a study that the Institute for Contemporary Studies in Tirana, Albania is putting together on immigration of the Albanians to the U.S.  We would greatly appreciate it if you would respond to this questionnaire by April 28, 2004 at the e-mail address jdhimitri at isb.icc-al.org, jdhimitri2000 at yahoo.com 


  Thanks a lot for your time and understanding.

  Wish you all the best

  Julia
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    Interested might want to check this out. Check out the 2:00-2:35 session on Albanian Diaspora.


    - > > AN INVITATION

  >   >                              to
  >   >    EPD's ANNUAL WORKSHOP CONFERENCE IN APPLIED DEVELOPMENT
  >   >
  >   > The Economic and Political Development (EPD) and Humanitarian
  >   > Affairs program cordially invite you to the annual Workshop
  >   > Conference in the afternoons of April 29-April 30.  Attend the
  >   > conference and hear Final Presentations of this years Workshop in
  >   > Applied Development.  Teams of SIPA students will be presenting the
  >   > findings and recommendations from their work with a diverse set of
  >   > international development organizations around the globe throughout
  >   > this year.  Client organizations like UNFPA, the World Bank, IOM,
  >   > ACCION, UNICEF, TECHNOSERVE, and more will be there. Join us after
  >   > for the reception on Friday April 30th.
  >   >
  >   >                          CONFERENCE PROGRAM
  >   >  Thursday, April 29, 2004
  >   >
  >   >  12:30 -1:05    Empowering Small Rural Producers: The Case of La
  >   >                 Coordinadora in El Salvador, Foundation for Self-
  >   >                 sufficiency in Central America and Coordinadora
  >   >
  >   >  1:15 - 1:50    Process Evaluation of UNFPA's HIV/AIDS Prevention
  >   >                 Initiative in Sierra Leone, UNFPA
  >   >
  >   >   2:00 - 2:35    Diaspora and Development: The Case of Albania, UNDP
  >   >
  >   >   2:45 - 3:20    Honduras Education For All Fast Track Initiative:
  >   >                  Lessons Learned, World Bank
  >   >
  >   >   3:30 - 4:05    Learning to Learn:  Helping Microfinance
  >   >                  Institutions become Learning Organizations, ENLACE
  >   >
  >   >   4:15 - 4:50    The Impact of Nepal's WTO Accession on its Food
  >   >                  Security, UNDP
  >   >
  >   >   5:00 - 5:35    Assessing Impact: ACCION New York's Microlending
  >   >                  Activities, ACCION NY
  >   >
  >   >    Friday, April 30
  >   >
  >   >  12:00 - 12:35    Listening to the Voices of Jordanian Youth, UNICEF
  >   >
  >   >  12:45 - 1:20      New York's Mixteca: A Transnational Study, No
  >   >                    Borders Inter-Community Corporation/North
  >   >                    American Integration & Dev. Center
  >   >
  >   >  1:30 - 2:05       A Critical Look at Voluntary Resettlement in
  >   >                    Tanzania, Technoserve
  >   >
  >   >  2:15 - 2:50       An Evaluation of IOMs Transitional Assistance
  >   >                    Program to Former Soldiers in Bosnia
  >   >                    Herzegovina, International Organization for
  >   >                    Migration
  >   >
  >   >  3:00 - 3:35       Spilling the Beans: Microfinance Lessons from
  >   >                    and for Ecuador's Rural Poor International
  >   >                    Institute for Rural Reconstruction
  >   >
  >   >  3:45 - 4:20       Going Nuts in China: Market Potential for
  >   >                    Mozambiquan Cashews, Technoserve Mozambique
  >   >
  >   >  4:30 - 5:05       Great Expectations: The EU and Social
  >   >                    Development in Poland and Serbia, World Bank
  >   >
  >   >  5:05 - 5:15       CLOSING REMARKS
  >   >
  >   >  5:00 7:00      Please join us FOR A RECEPTION!
  >   >
  >   > For more information,  please contact EPD Workshop Director, Fida
  >   > Adely, fja7 at columbia.edu
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From akiltirana at hotmail.com  Thu May 13 09:54:57 2004
From: akiltirana at hotmail.com (Akil Tirana)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:54:57 +0000
Subject: [NYC-L] Distance education course
Message-ID: <BAY17-F35J0qWxcm2Py00048050@hotmail.com>

FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Distance education course
"INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AND
PROMOTION"
(13 September-5 December 2004)


Dear Colleagues,

HREA is calling for applications for the distance learning course
"Introduction to the European System of Human Rights Protection and
Promotion", which will be offered from September-December 2004. Course
instructor is Dr. Gerd Oberleitner.

Please note that the registration deadline for this course is 15 June
2004.

Best wishes,

Frank Elbers
Distance Learning Programme, HREA
http://www.hrea.org/courses


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HREA Distance Learning Course 9E04:
INTRODUCTION TO THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION AND
PROMOTION
13 September-5 December 2004
Instructor: Dr. Gerd Oberleitner

This distance learning course provides participants with practical
guidance on how to protect and promote human rights through the
European
human rights system, and specifically the institutions and treaties of
the
Council of Europe. Participants will be introduced to the main European
human rights conventions and jurisprudence, primarily as developed
through
the European Court of Human Rights. The course addresses European human
rights standards as they apply to civil and political rights, economic,
social and cultural rights, and the rights of minorities. Case studies
on
the freedom of expression, homosexuality, violence against women,
protection of the mentally-ill, prisoner's rights, and the rights of
refugees and internally displaced persons, will deepen participants'
understanding of the European human rights standards and machinery.

The course is primarily intended for advanced (under)graduate students
of
(international) law or social and political sciences; civic education
and
history teachers; and NGO staff members from Council of Europe member
states. Participants should have a good written command of English (the
course language is English), have high competence and comfort with
computer and Internet use, and have regular access to e-mail and the
Internet.

The course involves approximately 60 hours of reading, on-line working
groups, interaction among students and instructor, and assignments, and
is
offered over a 12-week period beginning on 13 September. E-mail will be
the main medium for the course, although participants will need to have
periodic access to the Web. This course will integrate active and
participatory learning approaches within activities and assignments,
with
an emphasis on reflective and collaborative learning. Participants who
have done the required reading, prepared interim and final project
assignments and have actively participated in group discussions will
receive a Certificate of Participation.

Application deadline: 15 June 2004

A more detailed course description, course outline, information about
the
course instructor, evaluations of the 2003 course and application forms
can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/courses/9E.html

This course was developed in partnership with the Council of Europe.


-----


ABOUT HREA's DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME

HREA's Distance Learning Programme (DLP) was initiated in 2000 in
response
to an unaddressed need for the continuing education of human rights
professionals and practitioners. The programme builds on HREA's
extensive
experience in both the training of professionals (advocates, educators,
development workers) and the use of the new information technologies to
provide resources and to network human rights advocates and educators.
By
offering short, practical yet specialised courses via distance learning
barriers that prevent many practitioners from participating in
continuing
education -- such as a lack of time and/or lack of funds to participate
in
regional or national workshops/trainings -- can be overcome. HREA
annually
organises distance learning courses on human rights monitoring;
research &
evaluation in the NGO sector; project development and management; use
of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) for human rights
work;
rights-based programming; and human rights advocacy (in English, Arabic
and Russian). For more information about the DLP, please visit:
http://www.hrea.org/DLP/


ABOUT HREA

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international
non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the
training of activists and professionals; the development of educational
materials and programming; and community-building through on-line
technologies. HREA works in partnership with education agencies, NGOs,
governments and inter-governmental organisations to implement training
programmes for NGO staff, jurists, teachers, and other professionals
involved in human rights work. Current and past partners include, inter
alia, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies,
Council of Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HURIDOCS, the
Inter-American Institute for Human Rights (IIDH), the Office of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Institute and
UNESCO.
HREA is registered as a non-profit organisation in the Netherlands and
the
USA. More information on HREA can be found at: http://www.hrea.org

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From mentor at alb-net.com  Thu May 13 13:31:37 2004
From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] AAWO recruitment event for work in Kosova
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0405131315180.24994@alb-net.com>


NOTE: For more information about the event please contact
       Vjollca Jakupi at VIOLCAJ at aol.com .

------
 	Are you willing to work in Kosova but you do not know how?!!

                Recruitment Event to Work in Kosova
                          Sponsored by
           Albanian American Women's Organization (AAWO)

When:	Friday, May 14, 2004
Time:	10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.
Where:	481 8th Avenue, Ste. 934
 	(Between 34th & 35th St)
 	New York, NY
Contact: Vjollca Jakupi at VIOLCAJ at aol.com

REGISTER FOR THE UPCOMING RECRUITMENT:
Call Albanian American Women.s Organization (AAWO)
at 212-244-8440

If you can not come on Friday, fax your resume and one photocopy of your 
passport at:
212-244-8159
For more information call
Northrop Grumman
at 703-968-1211


From fearff at yahoo.com  Sun May 16 16:51:42 2004
From: fearff at yahoo.com (angelo williams)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 13:51:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] st.nicholas albanian church organized dinner dance
Message-ID: <20040516205143.63294.qmail@web12308.mail.yahoo.com>

hi ppl!

st.nicholas albanian church of Jamaica Estates, N.Y
has organized a dinner dance here's the details

http://www.stnicholasalbanian.org/node/view/244

cheers

-angelo


	
		
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From mentor at alb-net.com  Wed May 19 23:31:30 2004
From: mentor at alb-net.com (Mentor Cana)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 23:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] Family from Kosovo in crisis (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0405192327140.14312@alb-net.com>

Dear friends,

Please take e look at the e-mail below and see if you can help Barbara. She 
works for the Child Protective Services in Rochester, New York, and they 
are in need of Albanian speaking individuals to help them with some Kosova 
children.

If you live around or near Rochester, NY, or if you can help in any way 
please contact Barbara at BARBARA.DEMLER-KALINNA at DFA.STATE.NY.US .

Sincerely,
Mentor

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:36:47 -0400
From: "Demler-Kalinna, Barbara" <BARBARA.DEMLER-KALINNA at DFA.STATE.NY.US>
To: "'albanians-today at alb-net.com'" <albanians-today at alb-net.com>
Subject: Family from Kosovo in crisis

Hello, I work in Child Protective Services in Rochester, New York.  We have
some involvement with a family from Kosovo who has resided here for
approximately 5 years.  This family predominately speaks Albanian.  We have
multiple issues, involving location of appropriate translators, as well as
needing a better understanding of cultural issues, and we are seeking
resources in order to provide appropriate services.  I'm wondering if anyone
from your group could offer any suggestions and/or help.

Barb
585-274-8407



From akiltirana at hotmail.com  Mon May 24 15:06:10 2004
From: akiltirana at hotmail.com (Akil Tirana)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:06:10 +0000
Subject: [NYC-L] FW: More Funding Sources for Public Interest
	Positions/Internships/Clerkships
Message-ID: <BAY17-F322Q0eU95PD20009ecbb@hotmail.com>




>From: "Sheila Ketcham" <sketcham at wcl.american.edu>
>To: <sketcham at wcl.american.edu>
>Subject: More Funding Sources for Public Interest 
>Positions/Internships/Clerkships
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:13:39 -0400
>
>  In case anyone is still looking ...
>
>In addition to PSLAWNET's Summer Funding Sources Nationwide accessible
>at  <http://pslawnet.org/summerfunding.asp>
>http://pslawnet.org/summerfunding.asp , the Public Interest
>Clearinghouse has another excellent comprehensive listing of summer
>grant and fellowship resources for summer funding.
>
>Here is the link:    <http://www.pic.org/pilp/summergrants.htm>
>http://www.pic.org/pilp/summergrants.htm

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From akiltirana at hotmail.com  Mon May 24 13:53:46 2004
From: akiltirana at hotmail.com (Akil Tirana)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:53:46 +0000
Subject: [NYC-L] FW: Call For Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships!
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>From: "Sheila Ketcham" <sketcham at wcl.american.edu>
>To: <sketcham at wcl.american.edu>
>Subject: Call For Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships!
>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:09:34 -0400
>
>FYI about fellowship opportunities below.  This is just one example of
>the post-graduate, public interest fellowships available to students who
>will graduate in May 2005 - or who have already graduated.  For more
>fellowship options please visit www.PSLawNet.org and create your own
>username and password.  Then when searching for opportunities, pick
>"Fellowship" as the job type.  Also, be sure to visit their Fellowships
>Corner for tips on a fellowship application.  Finally, VISIT ME and the
>Office of Career Services so we help you develop the best application
>possible.
>
>Sheila Ketcham
>OCS
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nkechi Taifa [mailto:ntaifa at osi-dc.org]
>Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:39 AM
>Subject: Call For Applications: Soros Justice Fellowships!
>
>
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
>You may be interested, or we seek your assistance in reaching
>individuals who may be interested in applying for the upcoming round of
>Soros Justice Advocacy, Senior and Media Fellowships.  The Fellowships
>support outstanding lawyers, advocates, organizers, scholars,
>journalists and documentarians who will advance the criminal justice
>priorities of OSI's U.S. Justice Fund.  These priorities include:
>reducing the nation's over reliance on policies of punishment and
>incarceration, eliminating race and class disparities in the criminal
>justice system and restoring judicial discretion, and encouraging the
>successful resettlement of people returning from prison.  The fellowship
>programs also emphasize the intersection of these priorities with
>immigrant communities; gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
>communities; and women and children.
>
>
>
>Please forward this information to relevant listservs and throughout
>your various networks to help us get the word out!  If you are attending
>conferences, hosting events or meeting with people who may be good
>candidates or gatekeepers, please make our outreach materials available
>or direct interested people to our website at
>http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/justice_fellows
>
>
>
>The deadline for all three fellowships is Wednesday, September 22, 2004.
>
>
>
>Thank you in advance for your assistance, and feel free to contact me
>with questions or requests for promotional materials.
>
>
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>kate black
>
>program officer
>
>justice fund of the open society institute
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>400 w. 59th street new york, ny  10019
>
>tel 212/548/0170  fax 212/548/4666
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From mentor at alb-net.com  Thu May 27 18:36:52 2004
From: mentor at alb-net.com (Albanians-Today News and Information)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:36:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] [Albanians-Today] Albania at risk of disaster from
	heightened pollution levels
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Albania at risk of disaster from heightened pollution levels

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TIRANA (AFP) - Albania is facing a humanitarian catastrophe due to growing 
pollution caused by poisonous gases that are 10 times above the tolerance 
level set by the World Health Organizations (WHO), according to experts in 
the country.

"We are concerned as we get new information every day about growing numbers 
of people suffering from cancer, cardiovascular and pneumonia diseases due 
to various poisonous gases and carbon dioxide," Environment Minister Ethem 
Ruka told AFP.

Some 50,000 tons of air bubbles and carbon dioxide fall on the capital 
Tirana every year, or 48 kilogrammes (105 pounds) of damaging particles per 
inhabitant, data presented by the National Institute for Environment 
showed.

That is why Tirana is estimated to be one of the most polluted cities in 
the world, behind New Delhi and Beijing, but way ahead of Athens, Budapest, 
Bucharest or Madrid.

"Some 90 percent out of 100,000 vehicles in the Albanian capital are too 
old, 70 percent use diesel and 30 percent petrol, but mostly petrol with 
lead and a huge quantity of sulfur, banned in the European Union (news - 
web sites) countries," Ruka said.

"Lead emissions could provoke celebral weakness, especially among children, 
but could also cause huge genetic problems in the future," an expert from 
the Public Health Institute, Agron Deliu, told AFP.

Although no reliable data exists, experts said that deaths due to illnesses 
caused by pollution have increased by 20 percent in Tirana in the past two 
years in the former communist country of 3.5 million people.

According to the Institute for Statistics, respiratory system diseases came 
third on the list of causes of death last year.

Albanian experts have also registered an increased number of babies born 
with deformities, particularly in the region of Elbasan, some 60 kilometers 
(36 miles) west of Tirana, where the daily pollution level is 15 times 
above acceptable levels, particularly due to sulfur gas.

The same phenomena were registered among the animals born in this region. 
There have been reported cases of four-legged roosters and two-headed 
calves or rabbits in the region of Elbasan, a centre of steel production 
with no regular pollution control.

"In Elbasan, numerous cement- and metal-producing factories emit 40,000 
tons of dust per year," said Ilir Quiriazi, an environment ministry expert.

Quiriazi has threatened to close down all factories that fail to take 
anti-pollution measures.

Experts also warned that throughout Albania, tens of thousands of tons of 
chemical and toxic waste could be found abandoned in the ruins of the 
communist-era factories.

The danger is even higher nowadays as many families, fleeing poor mountain 
regions, camp or build their temporary huts near these former production 
centers.

Ruka said a "cancerous substance" had been found in some ground water in 
the area, "due to left-over pesticides."

The minister called on the international institutions to help Albania to 
"prevent a humanitarian catastrophe," estimating that "at least a billion 
dollars" were needed to reduce pollution in Albania.
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From mentor at alb-net.com  Fri May 28 11:05:21 2004
From: mentor at alb-net.com (Albanians in Macedonia Crisis Center News & Information)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [NYC-L] [AMCC-News] Macedonia: U.S. Embassy on a 'Sacrosanct' Hill?
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May 28, 2004
U.S. Embassy on a 'Sacrosanct' Hill? It's a Balkan Battle
By NICHOLAS WOOD

KOPJE, Macedonia . At first glance, the northern tip of Gradiste hill here 
appears less than impressive. Old plastic bags pepper its grassy slopes. 
Dogs sniff for traces of food among discarded litter. Its only apparent 
saving grace is a view of this capital and the surrounding mountains.

Within a few weeks time, American diplomats here believe, good use will be 
made of the site, which they describe as "wasteland," when construction 
starts on a $50 million United States Embassy.

Barren as it may appear to the Americans, the Gradiste hill is regarded by 
many Macedonians as one of the most important historical sites in the 
country, as well as home to a recently discovered 300-year-old Muslim 
cemetery that may hold as many as 2,000 graves.

"It's a sacrosanct site for our people," said Kalina Bunevska Isakovska, 
who for the last three months has led a campaign opposed to the embassy 
development. "It has a cultural and spiritual value."

The first human settlements on the hill, which is roughly a mile long and 
half as wide, can be traced back more than 4,000 years, and it is widely 
regarded as the heart of Skopje. Macedonia's most-used paper currency, the 
100-denar note, features the walled medieval city of Skopje situated on the 
hill.

But the hopes of Ms. Bunevska Isakovska that the Macedonian government, 
which is selling the land to the United States government, will cancel its 
deal and designate the area as a national heritage spot appear unlikely to 
be fulfilled.

The United States is buying a nine-acre site on the hill for "a 
multimillion-dollar figure," diplomats here said, because it was decided 
that the current embassy was too small and insecure for American needs. 
Mobs twice breached the walls of the current embassy building, situated in 
a converted kindergarten, during anti-American protests in 1999 and 2001.

The Gradiste hill site, according to Macedonian and American officials, 
offers the possibility of a 100-foot radius around the embassy to protect 
it from bomb attacks, as well as providing a prestigious location 
overlooking the city.

"There are so many places in the world where the United States Embassy is 
situated in an exclusive position," Macedonia's deputy prime minister, Musa 
Xhaferi, said in a recent interview. "In my opinion, this shows respect for 
their state and their people."

In some ways the dispute over whether a foreign government should be 
allowed to take possession of part of the hill . embassies are the 
sovereign possessions of the nations they represent . is nothing new. 
Romans, Byzantines, Slavs, Turks, Austrians, Serbs, Bulgarians, Italians 
and Germans have all at some stage controlled the hill, making it one of 
the most disputed pieces of territory in the Balkans, local historians say.

American officials point out that most of the valuable traces of those 
conquests, including an Iron Age settlement, are found at the southern end 
of the Gradiste, where an Ottoman fortress still overlooks the city.

The United States ambassador, Lawrence Butler, denied in a recent interview 
that the proposed building would damage historical remains or artifacts. 
"We are committed to building an embassy that respects Skopje and 
Macedonia's heritage and cultural tradition," he said.

To allay concerns that the new mission might disturb archaeological 
remains, the embassy paid for part of the site to be excavated. It was that 
sample digging that discovered the Muslim cemetery. A total of 203 bodies 
dating as far back as the 18th century were uncovered. A 
six-and-a-half-yard-long stretch of aqueduct and part of an Iron Age jug 
were also discovered. Archaeologists overseeing the excavations estimated 
that the burial ground, which extends beyond the proposed American Embassy 
site, could contain more than 2,000 bodies.

"It would be preferable if the graves remained untouched," Jakup 
Selimovski, Macedonia's senior Muslim cleric, said in a recent interview 
upon hearing of the discovery. He warned that "the message from the United 
States to the world would be negative," if the embassy did not take heed of 
the view of Muslims. They make up about 30 percent of the country's 
population.

The Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, in Skopje, has ruled 
that the findings were not significant enough to prevent the construction 
of the embassy, and American diplomats were formally notified recently that 
they could go ahead with construction.

The approval has been greeted with criticism by some local commentators. 
"Governments don't always care about culture," said Danilo Kocevski, a 
columnist with the Macedonian daily newspaper Dnevnik who opposes the 
development. "People are very sentimental about this issue regardless of 
whose embassy it is."

He noted that the same institute that approved the embassy plans had 
permitted concrete to be used in the renovation of a medieval stone bridge 
in the center of Skopje.

American officials said discussions were under way with Muslim leaders here 
that could lead to the reburial of any remains found at the site. A senior 
American official also said the embassy would not be the first institution 
in Skopje to be built on the site of a graveyard. Macedonia's Interior 
Ministry was built, he said, on the site of a Jewish cemetery.
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