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Appendix A: Background on NARA and the ERA Program
Pages 71-79

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From page 71...
... ~ Mink in order to understand this, we need to look at the causes that my husband has been supporting over the last decade or so, and ~ win speak very briefly about some of these: one is secularism and tolerance of religious diversity; one is human rights; one is minority and women's rights; and a final topic is democracy and democratic opening of society. First of an.
From page 72...
... Secondly, his advocacy of human rights and human rights standards: ~ am proud that he was a founder of the Arab human rights organization that has been mentioned earlier in this session, of the Egyptian organization for human rights, and he has been a real supporter of a whole young generation of human rights lawyers and activists in Egypt and in the Arab world. Unfortunately, the enemies of human rights have been able to equate this movement in the minds of most Egyptians with liberal Western values, and not just with liberal Western values but that debate is usually further narrowed to American interests and values.
From page 73...
... Back to the issue of the Coptic minority in Egypt, even though women's issues have been taken up now by the state, by our first lady, by a number of prominent organizations and individuals, the Coptic issue remains a taboo in our society. One is not to write about it, one is not to speak about it, there is no organization representing the rights of Copts.
From page 74...
... think that we who are in the West have to take some of the responsibility for the anger, for the feeling of injustice, that many times the plights of the Iraqi people, of the Palestinian people, of the Sudanese people, are not [considered] as weighty, are not taken as seriously as the rights and the injustices of other people, and this makes it extremely difficult for moderate voices, secular voices, the voices of human rights, to be heard In our society.
From page 75...
... Alors, puisque Flora Brov~na vous a parIe bien mieux que je le ferais du Kosovo, je vou~rais en dire un petit mot mais suriout vous dire pour moi ce que representait cet engagement des medecins. Flora Brovina est medecin, pediatre.
From page 76...
... Je ne vais pas vous parIer tres Tonglemps de cet empoisonnement, de ce que nous avons trouve mais ca nous a permis de rencontrer Flora Brov~na qui deja etait devouee a la cause des enfants et a la cause du Kosovo. Cet engagement, cette decouverte du reel, ce refus d'accepler I'oppression a entra~ne un certa~n nombre de reactions qui se vent poursuiv~es.
From page 77...
... Bush que je sache n'est pas un representant du tiers-monde ! Cette notion d'~ngerence, cette notion de v~ol, d'effraction a commence non pas chez les hommes de science mais dans le droit chez nous lorsque, a propos des enfants battus, nous nous sommes aper~us que battre un enfant ne concernait pas seulement l'enfant ou sa famille ou celu~ qui exer~ait des sev~ces mais la communaute toute entiere.
From page 78...
... C'est une transformation profonde du droit mondial et cela prendra encore sans douse des diza~nes d'annees. L'exemple du Kosovo : ce qui s'est passe au Kosovo et ce qu~ s'est passe au Timor Est est un exemple pas encore reussi, helas, mais nous sommes sur la bonne voie.
From page 79...
... Et en que~ques semaines, alors que, souvenez vous-en qu'est-ce qu'on a entendu : << c'etait impossible, on ne pouvait pas le faire >>, certains militaires ~sant que c'etait absolument techniquement impossible, etc., et puis cela a ete fait. Je ne dis pas que les accords de Dayton soient merveiBeux ma~s posons-nous la question: est-ce que la paix actueDe est (end of tape)


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