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Today's News from the U.N. and the World, visit: MaximsNews.com® Established 1999. Please CONFIRM your free Subscription to MaximsNews.com: See the Bottom of this page.* MaximsNews.com Columnist Ambassador Pierre Schori of Sweden and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Amb. Schori, currently a Visiting Professor at Adelphi University, New York, was Sweden’s ambassador to the United Nations from September 2000 to September 2004.
Olof Palme Prize Winners Against the Death Penalty
By Ambassador Pierre Schori Amb.PierreSchori@MaximsNews.com
UNITED NATIONS -- 18 November 2004 / www.MaximsNews.com / In 1987 the Olof Palme Memorial Fund established the Olof Palme Prize, an annual prize awarded for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of Olof Palme. The Foundation has now taken the initiative to gather its Palme Prize Winners in an appeal against the death penalty, which remains a serious human right issue around the world. FOR THE OLOF PALME MEMORIAL FUND Pierre Schori, Chairman
APPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PALME PRIZE WINNERS CALLING FOR AN END TO THE DEATH PENALTY
In the year 2003 there were at least 1,146 known executions in 28 countries, 84 % of which took place in the United States, China, Iran and Vietnam. The death penalty remains a serious human rights issue around the world. We believe that the gratuitous killing of individuals as a form of punishment is a basic violation of human rights and must be abolished. Over a thousand people continue to be executed by firing squad, lethal injection, hanging, beheading, and stoning each year and we now call on world leaders to suspend executions worldwide and retreat from capital punishment. The death penalty is frequently imposed without regard for fairness, due process, or international law. Napoleon Beazley, T.J, Jones, and Toronto Patterson were 17 year-old juveniles at the time of the offense for which they were convicted. In 2002 they were executed in the United States despite the almost universal prohibition against the execution of juveniles. In 2003, another juvenile offender, Scott Hain, was executed in the U.S. Since 1973, 227 juvenile death sentences have been imposed in the United States in clear violation of international law. In China, one senior legislator estimated that the actual number of executions carried out there are much higher and may be as many as 10,000 each year. We believe that each person is more than the worse thing they've ever done. Consequently, every human being has a basic right to life that must be protected. The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It corrupts human dignity and the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Capital punishment is the ultimate form of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It is disproportionately imposed on the poor, the indigent and racial minorities. We the undersigned believe that the time has come for the death penalty to be abolished. We call on all nations to stop executions as a first step towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment. In an era when the threat of war, terrorism and global conflict makes the protection of human rights critical, the time has come for the death penalty to be eliminated from the list of human rights problems which must be addressed and resolved.
Wei Jingsheng, Human rights and democracy activist, China Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Former UN General Secretary, Peru Kurdo Baksi, Writer and Journalist, Sweden Björn Fries, National Drug Policy Coordinator, Sweden Salima Ghezali, Writer and journalist, Algeria Hans Blix, Chairman of the Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction and former Chief weapons inspector in Iraq, Sweden Hanan Ashrawi, Former Palestinian minister Anahit Bayandour, Activist of peace and human rights, Armenia Fazle Hasan Abed, Chairperson Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Bangladesh Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairman Millenium Consolidated Investment, South Africa Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, USA Monsieur Dominique, SOPO Executive Director SOS Racisme, France Vaclav Havel, Writer and Dramatist, former President of the Czech Republic
Ambassador
Jean PIERRE Olov SCHORI Amb.PierreSchori@MaximsNews.com
Born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1938. His
mother was Swedish and his father Swiss Married to Maud EDGREN-SCHORI, M.A.S.W, Licentiate of Philosophy in Social Work, Stockholm University Mr. Schori has three children Education1962 Master of Arts, Modern Languages and Political Science, University of Lund Professional Experiences1965-1968 Deputy International Secretary for the Social Democratic Party 1968-71 International Secretary for the Social Democratic Party 1971-1972 First Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1973-1976 Foreign Policy Advisor in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Olof Palme 1976-1982 International Secretary for the Social Democratic Party 1982-1991 Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1991-1994 Member of Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party on Foreign Affairs 1994-1996 Minister for International Development Co-operation and Deputy Foreign Minister for Co-operation with Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia and the Baltic States 1996-1999 Minister for International Development Co-operation, Migration and Asylum Policy and Deputy Foreign Minister 1999-2000 Member of European Parliament, leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Group and Spokesperson for the Socialist Group on Foreign Affairs, President of the Parliament ´s Committee for relations with Japan 2000-2004 Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations 2004- Distinguished Visiting Professor, Adelphi University, New York 1971-1973 Editor of “Tiden”, the theoretical review of the Social Democratic Party 1973-1979 Member of the Local School Authority in Lidingö 1979-1982 Member of the Lidingö Cultural Board 1987-1989 Member of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development (The Sanford Commission) 1989-1996 Chairperson of the National Judo Federation, Black belt, 1st Dan, 1990 1996- Chairperson of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund 2000 and 2002 Head of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Zimbabwe 1999-2002 Chairperson of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, Egypt 2001- 2004
Chair, United Nations Committee for
Parliamentarians for
Global Action 2000-2004 Member of the Board of the International Peace Academy, New York
Books and PublicationsLatin Americans on Latin America, Stockholm, 1968 I orkanens öga (Central America -In the eye of the Hurricane), Stockholm 1981 El desafío europeo en Centroamérica, San José, Costa Rica, 1982 Dokument inifrån (Between Blocks and Bridges: Swedish Foreign Policy from Olof Palme to Post-Communism), Stockholm, 1992 Entre Escila y Caribdis: Olof Palme, la Guerra Fría y el Poscomunismo, Mexico, 1994 Mellan Maastricht och Sarajevo, (Europe between Maastricht and Sarajevo) Stockholm, 1994 The Impossible Neutrality. Southern Africa, Cape Town, 1994 Olof Palme – Reformisten utan gränser (Reformer without Borders), 1996 Olof Palme - Reformista sin Fronteras,
Barcelona 1997 Can the United Nations manage the new era? Stockholm, 1999 From Marshall to Post-Communism: A New Deal for Internationalism First lecture of the Marshall Plan 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., December 10, 1996 American Hegemony in the International Perspective. Lecture at the Summer Faculty Institute on World Security Affairs, Amherst College, June 11, 2002 Global challenges in the 21st century. Lecture at Adelphi University, Garden City, October 2002 The United Nations, Global Governance, and Global Citizenship after September 11 Lecture at Adelphi University, Garden City, September 22, 2004
LanguagesSwedish, English, French, Spanish and some German.
Ambassador Pierre Schori's Columns in MaximsNews.com Olof Palme Prize Winners Against the Death Penalty 18 November 2004 Wars and Elections Seen From My Classroom 27 October 2004 Europeans, Citing Concerns of Possible Irregularities, to Send Elections Observers to the U.S. 22 October 2004
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