>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:58:41 -0500
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: "John E. Peck" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Chadian speaker 4/27
>
>               MADISON HOSTS CHADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL
>                   AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  21 APRIL 2000
>
>
>Delphine Djiraibe, a prominent activist for human rights and sustainable
>development in Chad, will be speaking in Madison on April 27th about a
>proposed pipeline through her home country.
>
>The 650-mile pipeline, to be built through Chad and Cameroon by a
>consortium led by the Exxon/Mobil corporation, is opposed by many
>indigenous people in both countries because of its environmental
>consequences. Some critics of the pipeline have been arrested or
>imprisoned for their activism.
>
>Delphine Djiraibe is president of the Chadian Association for Promotion
>and Defense of Human Rights, and co-ordinator of the Civil Society
>Advocacy Network, a coalition of human rights, environmental, women's,
>farmers' and trade union groups promoting sustainable development in
>Chad. Her speech will draw international attention to the human rights
>and environmental implications of the proposed pipeline.
>
>The event will be at at 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, April 27th in the
>Humanities Building, Room 1651, at the corner of Park and University on
>the UW-Madison campus. It is free and open to the public. After the
>speech, local chapters of Amnesty International and the Sierra Club will
>hold a vigil on Library Mall to remember environmentalists who are
>victims of human rights abuses around the world.
>
>For more information:
>Moses Klein (Amnesty International): (608) 259-1755, [log in to unmask]
>Lacinda Athen (Sierra Club): (608) 274-7870, [log in to unmask]
>
>
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