The Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT) will hold the Second Session of its 39th Congress in Rome on 8 – 11 December 2011. The second session will update the campaigns, such as those for the moratorium on capital punishment or for the universal ban on female genital mutilation that the Radical Party has promoted internationally for decades in collaboration with governments, parliamentarians, activists and organizations.
Emphasis on the aim of “ensuring that democracy and law are means, which are accessible to the people in order to play a significant role in the political and social contexts of our time” will be at the heart of the debate of the final stage of 39th Congress of the NRPTT. This aim will be highlighted in various thematic sessions, where, in addition to taking stock of the situation of the ongoing campaigns, new priorities will be discussed and proposed on issues related to the environment, energy and population boom; the fight against all prohibitions in order to affirm the right to make free and well informed choices, as well as to apply nonviolence in achieving lawfulness, transparency and legal certainty.
No Peace Without Justice, which is a constituent association of the Transnational Radical Party born from a campaign launched by its Congress held in Sofia in 1993, will participate to the Congress and present its current campaigns aimed at promoting accountability and redress for the victims of crimes under international law, supporting the adoption of a UNGA Resolution to ban FGM as a violation of universal human rights and physical integrity of women and girls, promoting and defending the fundamental rights and freedoms of LGBTI persons in Uganda, as well as reinforcing the role of human rights and democracy activists to foster political reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Among the political leaders and human rights activists involved in NPWJ campaigns will take part to the NRPTT Congress: Nader Nadery (Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission), Khalil Al Marzooq (Bahrain, Al Wefaq Party, resigned MP), Jasim Hussein (Bahrain, Ex Member of Parliament), Bourhan Daoud (Djibouti, Secretary General of the IGAD Parliamentary Union), Saad Ibrahim (Egypt, Founder of Ibn Khaldoun Center), Nada Thabet (Egypt, Chairperson of Hope for Development and Rehabilitation for persons with disabilities), Ahmed Salah (Egypt, member of 6th April Movement), Morissanda Kouyate (Guinea, Executive Director of Inter African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC)), Hoda Chalak (Lebanon, President of the Organization for Civil Action), Rami Khouri (Lebanon, editor-at-large of “The Daily Star” newspaper), Ellen Khouri (Jordan, Human Rights Activist), Lamine Boubakar Traoré (Mali, Anthropologist, University Professor), Demba Traoré (Mali, former Member of Parliament, lawyer), Biram Abeid (Mauritania, President of “Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitionniste”, IRA), Khady Koita (Senegal, President of « La Palabre »), Malick Diop (Senegal, Member of Parliament), Abdul Rahim Kamara (Sierra Leone, Director of the organisation “Manifesto 99”), Allieu Ibrahim Kanu (Sierra Leone, Director of Sierra Leone Institute of International Law), John Francis Onyango (Uganda, legal counsel of Sexual Minorities Uganda, SMUG).
Nonviolent Radical Party, transnational and transparty
The NRPTT is a nonviolent political organisation following Gandhian principles, which since 1995 has been recognised as an NGO in General consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Representatives of oppressed peoples, opponents and dissidents of authoritarian and repressive regimes, politicians and experts from all over the world have taken the floor at the United Nations, to denounce the systematic violations of human rights and to push for answers from governments based on the reform of the international Rule of Law and from the institutions called upon for its application.
The Radical Party is not an electoral entity but an organisation open to membership for citizens of every nationality and political orientation or affiliation. Many legislators from all over the world will attend the second session of the 39th Congress in Rome, as well as hundreds of human rights activists.
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