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Gender Fusions 4: Busting Up the Binaries! An annual queer spectacle in 3 acts Join us for the new and improved, extended remix of the 4th Annual Gender Fusions - where the heat & steam, the pressure & resistance of forging gender/queer community combusts into new geographies and constellations. We invite you to reflect & revel in the uproar of busting up the binaries of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Friday, April 25gaylesbiantransfagdykequeer: naming desire and identity in media 6:00pm Light Reception6:30pm - 8:30pm Screening Forging New Queer Geographies: Busting Up the Binaries! To reserve & purchase tickets:Call the Box Office at: 312-344-6126. Tickets also available at the door. Cash only. Bring your student & senior citizen IDs for discount. Comp tickets are available for Columbia College students. First come first serve. Call LGBTQ Office to reserve comp tickets. Proceeds benefit post-production of the film “still black”, a portrait of black trans men directed by kortney ryan ziegler and produced by awilda rodriguez lara (www.stillblackfilm.org). For more information:Visit www.colum.edu/lgbtq or contact the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community at312-344-8594 or lgbtqoffice@gmail.com
Gender Fusions is produced and presented by the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community. Co-sponsored by: Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Office of Multicultural Affairs, English Department, Common Ground & Amigas Latinas |
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MEXICO: RIGHTS COMMISSION DISTORTS HRW REPORT
Officials Should Address Deficiencies, Not Defend Them
(Mexico City, April 17, 2008) ? Mexico?s National Human Rights Commission undermines its own credibility by distorting the findings of a Human Rights Watch report, Human Rights Watch said today. The commission?s claim that it found ?48 errors? in the report does not withstand scrutiny and it is a blatant tactic to sidestep the critical issues of its effectiveness.
On March 12, 2008, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) responded to Human Rights Watch?s report, ?Mexico?s National Human Rights Commission: A Critical Assessment.? Top CNDH officials had already publicly denounced the HRW report when it was released in February, claiming that it contained ?45 lies? or ?more than 45 errors.? The commission?s written response, which was approved by its advisory council, purports to substantiate these claims by detailing ?48 errors? in the report.
?The commission?s response is a sad attempt to deflect attention from its ineffectiveness,? said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch. ?Instead of taking the opportunity to learn from constructive criticism and use it to help victims of rights abuses, the commission resorts to distortions and specious arguments to dismiss it.?
The CNDH response attempts to substantiate its claim of having found ?48 errors? by:
- Repeatedly citing a single alleged ?error? and recycling the arguments to generate multiple ?error? allegations;
- Arguing that Human Rights Watch failed to consider key documents that are in fact discussed in the report;
- Misinterpreting the Human Rights Watch report and alleging that the report made inaccurate claims that were never made;
- Citing sections of the Human Rights Watch report and comments on those excerpts without explaining what the supposed ?error? is; and,
- Arguing incorrectly that facts not mentioned in the Human Rights Watch report undermine the report?s findings.
Human Rights Watch has found only four instances in which the CNDH identifies phrases or passages in the report that are to some extent imprecise. However, none of these minor inaccuracies affect the overall conclusion or any of the factual findings of the report.
?The commission can distort its critics? views, but those criticisms aren?t going away,? said Vivanco. ?Eventually the commission will have to take them more seriously if it?s at all interested in having a more meaningful impact on human rights in Mexico.?
Mexico: Effective Action Needed by Human Rights Body:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/13/mexico18043.htm
Human Rights Watch’s Response to the CNDH:
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/17/HRWResponseCNDH.pdf
More Information on Human Rights in Mexico:
http://hrw.org/doc?t=americas&c=mexico
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