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Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter a une Conference de Presse organizee par le:


Mouvement Mondial Pour La Democratie
http://www.wmd.org/  

qui se reunit a Tunis, et ceci:


Mardi, 24 Avril, 2012

11:00 - 12:00 A L'Hotel Africa Al-Mouradi
Malawi 1 - 1er Etage

Pour introduire l'organization et son programme pour aider les transitions democratiques en Tunise et dans le Monde Arabe.
 



PARTICIPANTS:

 

Kim Campbell, Canada 

Chairperson of the World Movement for Democracy Steering Committee
Former Prime Minister of Canada 

 

The Right Honorable Kim Campbell P.C.; C.C.; Q.C. served as the 19th and first female Prime Minister of Canada in 1993. She also held the cabinet portfolios of Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of National Defense and Minister of Veterans' Affairs. She was the first woman to hold the Justice and Defense portfolios and the first woman Minister of Defense of a NATO country. Ms. Campbell served as Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles (1996-2000) and taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2001-2004), and is past Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and past President of the International Women's Forum. From 2004 to 2006, she was Secretary General of the Club of Madrid, an organization of former Presidents and Prime Ministers of which she is a founding member.

   

 

Ladan Boroumand, Iran
Research Director, The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation

 

Ladan Boroumand is a former visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies; she is currently research director at the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation. She has a Master's degree in political sociology and a PhD in history from France. She is the author of la Guerre des Principes (1999), an extensive study of the tensions throughout the French Revolution between human rights and the sovereignty of the nation. She is the author and co-author of several articles on the French Revolution, the Islamic revolution of Iran, and the nature of Islamist terrorism.

 

 

Kavi Chongkittavorn, Thailand 

Assistant group editor of Nation Media Group, publisher of English-language, The Nation and vernacular, Krungthep Turakij and Kom Chat Luek in Thailand.  

 

Kavi has been a journalist for more than two decades covering Thai and regional politics. He was a bureau chief in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 1988-1990 and Hanoi, Vietnam from 1990-1992. He also served as special assistant to the secretary general at the Jakarta-based Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 1993-1994 before returning to journalism until the current position.

In 1993, he was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2001. He was named the Human Rights Journalist of 1998 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of UNDHR by Amnesty International, Thailand. From 1999-2003, he was the president of Thai Journalists Association. Since 1999, he chairs the Bangkok-based regional free media advocacy group, Southeast Asian Press Alliance. He also serves as President Jury of Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, UNESCO.
   
Carlos Ponce, Venezuela
Director, Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia 

Carlos Ponce is founder and director of Consorcio Desarrollo y Justicia or "Development and Justice Consortium" and several other not-for-profit human rights, democracy, and social development organizations in Latin America. He has been an advisor to more than 47 NGOs in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States since 1992, and is currently promoting the creation of an effective Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy. He has worked for companies, government, universities, congress, international institutions and human rights and environmental organizations. In the 1990s, Mr. Ponce worked as an advisor to the Ministry of the Presidency of Venezuela, Executive Secretary of Venezuela's National Human Rights Commission, and as an advisor to the Venezuelan Congress, the Ministry of the Family, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Venezuela's National Park Institute. He has been a professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, a professor at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, and a lecturer at Tufts University. In 2003, Mr. Ponce received a Fulbright Scholar Award. He was also selected for the European Union Special Visitor Program, the Department of State Visitor Program, World Bank Scholarship, the Deans List for Academic Achievement, and several other awards and honors in Latin America. He has been invited as a guest speaker to conferences organized by presidents and former presidents of the Americas and invited to share his ideas with numerous institutions worldwide.