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Who and why is coming to the 39th Congress / Qui et pourquoi viendra au 39eme Congrès / Chi e perché sarà al 39esimo Congresso

David Borden
founder and Executive Director of StoptheDrugWar.org
United States
is founder and Executive Director of StoptheDrugWar.org (DRCNet), the organization which led the drug policy reform movement's entrance into cyberspace after its founding in late 1993. Borden has initiated programs including the John W. Perry scholarship fund for students losing financial aid because of drug convictions and the international conference series "Out from the Shadows: Ending Drug Prohibition in the 21st Century," a collaboration with the Radical Party. In August 2003, Borden sent an open letter to the District of Columbia's chief judge, Rufus G. King, explaining his decision to refuse to report for jury service as a protest of the drug war, an action which was covered by the Washington Post. Borden earned an A.B. with honors in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 1988, and completed an M.M. in Jazz Composition from New England Conservatory in 1990.
"I am attending the Radical Party's 39th Congress 2nd session to support the party, to renew our partnership in the campaign for drug legalization, and to see old friends. Drug policy reform in the United States is at an important crossroads, where support for our objectives has never been greater, but with the heart of the drug war continuing full blast and with pressure from federal law enforcement threatening to undermine that which has been achieved to date. We may have also seen the beginnings of a loosening of the international prohibition regime. US drug reformers and those in Europe and elsewhere need to forge joint strategies to take advantage of this opportunity."
Sharon Pardo
Director of the university’s Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society
Israel
(Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the Director of the university’s Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS). He is a Senior Fellow at the In­ternational and European Research Unit (IERU), Ghent University, a member of the National Executive of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI), and a member of the National Executive of the Israeli Association of International Studies (IAIS). His research interests focus on the legal/political dimension of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Dr. Pardo also has significant interest in the development of the Euro-Mediterranean region and, more specifically, in European-Israeli relationship. He has published widely on these issues and he is the co-author, together with Joel Peters, of the books Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union (Lexington Books, 2010) and Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History (Lexington Books, 2012, forthcoming). Dr. Pardo teaches courses on the European integration process and public international law.
Youssouf Mahamat Anadif
Research professor at the University of Chad
Chad
was born in 1974 in Bokoro and lives in N’Djamena. He studied Arabic literature in Kuwait and in Paris and earned a doctorate in literature in Paris; He is a member of the National Assembly of Chad, where he chairs the Committee on Communication, fundamental rights and freedoms. He’s the chairman of the Ainassour (Victory) party and a founding member of several civic humanitarian and human rights associations. He’s a research professor at the University of Chad in modern and contemporary Arabic literature.
Safia Elmi Djuibril
Vice chair of the National Human Rights Committee in Djibouti
Djibouti
has a degree in public health and she served as director of the mother/child health department where she managed a national safe motherhood programme, with an important section dedicate to the fight against Female Genital Mutilations (FGM). She also has a depth expertise in the gender policies: she is currently the “focal point” for all the gender issues within the National Assembly . She provides her expertise in the fight against violences based on gender to a national NGO (The National Association of Women of Djibouti), whose president is the First Lady of the Country, which sponsored the conference on FGM in Djibouti in 2005, with the presence of Ms. Emma Bonino. At the National Assembly of Djibouti, in 2010 we worked with No Peace Without Justic e, especially on the amendment of the law of the Criminal Code of Djibouti to be more applied. Finally she is also vice chair of the National Human Rights Committee in Djibouti.
Stefania Kapronczay
Head of the Patients' Rights Program at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
Hungary
holds a J.D. degree from ELTE University, Budapest and currently writing her thesis to obtain her sociology MA degree from ELTE University, Budapest. Stefania is the Head of the Patients' Rights Program at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) since March, 2008. Stefania has experience in law reform and legal defense activities linked to patients’ rights, reproductive rights, rights of the people with disabilities, end of life decisions and criminalization of poverty. HCLU is among those NGOs that opposed the Constitution Framing Process in Hungary and repeatedly expressed its concerns about the process as a whole. Stefania published an article in Agenda Coscioni about the new Constitution: “In October of 2010 HCLU claimed on its website that, as far we knew, the adoption process for the new Constitution failed to guarantee a dignified process. In January, 2011 we can state that the process of adoption does not even fulfill the most elementary requirements of the legislative process.”  
Abdul Rahim Kamara
Presidente NGO Manifesto 99
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Human Rights Activist and Executive Director of the Manifesto99 Human Rights Organization,a local NGO which monitors the compliance of the Govt of Sierra Leone with international human rights and humanitarian law treaties to which Sierra Leone is a State Party. Has worked in close collaboration and partnership with NPWJ on ICC issues and served as a senior Outreach Associate with the NPWJ mission in Sierra Leone. Worked as Outreach Consultant with the Special Court for Sierra Leone and currently actively involved in the campaign to end FGM,domesticating the Rome Statute of the ICC and the campaign to abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone.
Mohsen Marzouk
Secretary-General of the Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF)
Tunisia
is Secretary-General of the Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF) in Doha and member of the Tunisian Higher Commission for the Implementation of the Revolution’s Objectives, Political Reform, and Democratic Transition. Previously, Marzouk served as the Regional Coordinator at El Taller Foundation, the Regional Programs Coordinator at the International Labor Organization, and the Freedom House Regional Director. He also founded and directed Al-Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center in Tunis. In addition, Marzouk participated in founding a number of the most important regional & international human rights and democracy networks, and is a member of several of their directorial committees such as the Council for a Community of Democracies. He launched several regional programs to promote democratic transition in the Arab region, such as the New Generation of Advocates for Political Reform program, the Citizenship Movement, the Arab Experts’ Group on Transitional Justice, and the Arab Democratic Election Monitors’ Group. With the new wave of Arab people’s uprisings against despotism and yearning for democratization of their countries, he plays a major role as ADF’s Secretary-General in supporting the Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan peaceful transitions to democracies that are respectful of the rule of law, accountability, transparency, and the total absence of corruption. He strongly believes in the international civil society’s vision and mission of spreading democratic values and respect of human rights throughout the world, and strives towards contributing to accomplishing the long-entertained dream of Arab democratic countries.
Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany
Germany
(born April 12, 1948) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls,[1] he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left office on November 22, 2005.
Bernard Kouchner
Former French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
France
(born 1 November 1939 in Avignon) is a French politician, diplomat, and doctor. He is co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010 he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the right-wing Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments.
Onyango John Francis
Advocate of the high court and all subordinate courts in Uganda
Uganda
Francis is an advocate of the high court and all subordinate courts in Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University and a postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center-Kampala. Before joining private legal practice, Onyango worked as head of policy and advocacy for the Uganda law society. Mr. Onyango was also the Acting Coordinator for the Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court. He was co-counsel in the recent landmark judicial decision of Kasha Jacqueline and others Vs. Attorney General of Uganda where the High Court reaffirmed the rights of LGBTI persons to life and privacy. Mr. Onyango is also representing Thomas Kwoyelo before the International Crimes Division of the High Court of Uganda. He is interested in Human Rights Law and public interest litigation as well as International Criminal law and how these can be used as tools to improve the quality of life for survivors of conflict.
Son Chhay
Member of Parliament
Cambodia
Born on 1 January 1956, Son Chhay graduated in Australia. He currently belongs to the opposition and has been elected to parliament since 1993. Son Chhay is well respected for his tireless effort to fight against corruption, promoting liberal democracy and human rights. On 14 June 2010, Son Chhay was awarded the Order of Australia award for his services to Cambodia and the Cambodian Australian community.
Reason to participate in 39th Congress To have lived through hell under the regime of the killing field Pol Pot, I determine to take part in any effort to promote good society base on the rule of law and respect human rights. To participate in the TRP congress in Rome, could help me to establish the networks of parliamentarians and political groups to help fight against corruption and crime against humanity, to alleviate poverty and to create a system where social justice pervades, and to promote both a liberal and a democratic political environment.
Penelope Faulkner
Human rights defender and journalist
France
is a human rights defender and journalist working for freedom in Vietnam. She is Vice-President of Que Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam and the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights, and International Relations officer of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). She is also a radio journalist, Special Correspondent for the Vietnamese Service of Radio Free Asia, based in Washington DC.
“The EU is signing a Cooperation and Partnership Agreement with Vietnam that contains no mechanisms to protect human rights. This means Vietnam will continue to receive EU trade and aid whilst repressing with impunity young cyber-dissidents, Buddhists and indigenous minorities with impunity. The Nonviolent Radical Party has always been beside us in the fight against injustice. I have been a member of the NRP for many years, and I share your non-violent ideals. I am coming to the Congress in Rome to ask you to do the impossible – that’s easy for you! - to help us free Vietnam from dictatorship and move towards democracy, human rights and the rule of law”.