09.12.
Jahangir Akash in Den Haag
Conference: Manifesto on Human Rights
10:30 - 16:30
09.12.
Teaching Unit of Mexico
with Pedro Matias and pupils from Göttingen secondary school
09.12.
Freedom of press in Sri Lanka and in Bangladesh
with Foundation guests Sanath Balasooriya and Jahangir Akash
Hosts: Amnesty International, Eutin
School event in Weber secondary school in Eutin
07.12.
Teaching Unit of Mexico
with Pedro Matias and pupils of Hannover secondary school
30.11.
Presentation with Pedro Matías on his journalistic work in Mexico
Annual Meeting of the Association for ‘Journalists Helping Journalists’
23.11.
Seminar on the work of journalists in Oaxaca, Mexico
with Pedro Matias
Host: Promovio e.V. (Mexico-Group)
in ‘Kulturrathaus’ in Dresden
20.10.
Seminar on Freedom of Press in Mexico
with Pedro Matías – Journalist and guest of the Hamburg Foundation for Politically Persecuted People
Mo, 20.10.09, 19:00
Press Club Baden-Baden
Uzbekistan
Tamara Chikunova founded the Organisation for ‘Mothers of Usbekistan Against Capital Punishment and Torture’ in 2000. It is thanks to her tireless determination that Uzbekistan officially abolished capital punishment on 1 Jan. 2008. Today she is fighting for a more humane dispensation of justice and for better conditions for prisoners previously sentenced to death.
Bangladesh
Jahangir Alam Akash has been a journalist and correspondent for 20 years, writing on the misuse of power and corruption in his country and in the border town Rajshahi. Most recently he has worked for the national Bangladesh newspaper, ‘Daily Sangbad’ and for the Bangali broadcasters of ‘Deutsche Welle’.
Sri Lanka
Sanath Balasooriyas’ career as a journalist began in 1991. He is a member of the ‘Free Media Movement’ (FMM) and the Movement ‘Journalists for Peace’, which campaigned for peace negotiations and rights for the Tamil minority in northern Sri Lanka. He most recently worked for the Sinhalese newspaper DINAMINA.
Mexico/Oaxaca
Pedro Matías Arrazola’s work focuses on assaults, political corruption and organised crime in the Mexico State, Oaxaca. Since 1986 he has worked for several press organisations in Oaxaca and was correspondent for the politically independent magazine, ‘Proceso’, and the Canal 40 news programme ‘CNI’.
11.11.
„Stimmen für die Freiheit“ (Voices for Freedom)
Guests of the Foundation tell their stories.

For enquires about our Foundation book, please contact us on 040-42863-5757 or at
Kontakt@Hamburger-Stiftung.de
11.11.
„Tschetscheniens vergessene Kinder“
(Chechnya’s Forgotten Children)

A photo book by Musa Sadulaev (photography) and Andrea Jeska (text).

Hardback, approx. 96 pages with approx. 100 photographs,
approx. 22 x 20 cm, Price approx. € 24,90
11.11.
„Despoten vor Europas Haustür“ (Tyrants on Europe’s Doorstep)
Why the security delusion is fuelling extremism

by Sihem Bensedrine and Omar Mestiri
Publisher: Antje Kunstmann GmbH, München