Human Rights Activist To Participate in Internet Chat July 20
Iranian American Goli Ameri to discuss human rights, U.N. commissionWashington -- Goli Ameri, an Iranian American and member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), will be online to answer your questions about human rights issues during a moderated Internet chat July 20. Ameri will discuss her experience as one of the three U.S., nongovernment delegates to the Commission on Human Rights 61st session, held in Geneva March 14 – April 22, as well as her personal background with human-rights issues. The moderated Internet chat takes place at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Wednesday, July 20. To participate, you must register by sending an e-mail to iipchat@state.gov before the beginning of the chat so that login information can be sent to you. You are neither required nor encouraged to provide any personal information. You can also submit questions in advance to iipchat@state.gov. Upon her return from Geneva, Ameri wrote an editorial for May 20th issue of the Oregonian newspaper, evaluating the commission. She pointed out that “more than 30 percent of the commission membership is made up of the worst human-rights abusers — nations such as China, Cuba, Sudan and Zimbabwe.” “I learned during six weeks in Geneva that those proposing U.N. reform are not against the United Nations. In fact, if anything, they hearken to what the United Nations was meant to do,” she wrote. Ameri is the founder and president of eTiniium, a consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications industry. She was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress from Oregon in 2004. As co-founder of the Iran Democracy Movement at the Hoover Institution and long-time supporter of the Democracy and the Rule of Law project at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, Ameri studies worldwide democratic movements, in particular the conditions and prospects for democracy in Iran. |