http://blogs.jp.dk/fromdurban2 Ronald Koven fra World Press Freedom Committee skrev en blog om pressefrihed og ytringsfrihed fra FN's racismekonference i Geneve. Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Durban II, the weeklong UN Durban Review Conference, ended Friday with no bang and many whimpers. The compromise final outcome document was formally adopted by the delegates in the half-empty Assembly Hall of Geneva's Palais des Nations after a day and a half of three-minute speeches by dozens of non-governmental organizations ... http://blogs.jp.dk/fromdurban2/2009/04/25/final-whimpers-in-geneva/ It's all over but the shouting in Geneva. The final outcome document of the UN's Durban II anti-racism conference was adopted today, the second day of the five-day meeting, without even a mumbling complaint. Despite all fears, it skirts all the controversies - Israel, "defamation of religions," Western reparations for the slave ... http://blogs.jp.dk/fromdurban2/2009/04/21/the-calm-after-the-storm/ He apparently came to provoke, and he succeeded. If anybody had expected Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be conciliatory, he disappointed with an impressive display of polemical talent. He even added to the traditional Great Satans and Little Satans of Islamic Republican rhetoric a call to end the hold of the ... http://blogs.jp.dk/fromdurban2/2009/04/21/successful-provocation/ At the start of the weekend before the UN's Durban II conference in Geneva, the organizers were trying, really trying, to pull off a consensus that would allow things to go ahead and maybe even attract recalcitrant governments threatening a boycott, starting with the United States. But feelings were still raw. The ... http://blogs.jp.dk/fromdurban2/2009/04/20/trying-to-find-consensus/