dOCUMENTA
(13) – Human Rights Symposium “Western Sahara – a colonial conflict in our
time”
Presented
by Bettina Semmer as part of the installation of Robin Kahn & La
Cooperativa Unidad Nacional de Mujeres Saharauis "The Art of Sahrawi
Cooking" Project #90
8th -
15th July, daily 6-8pm
A
series of public talks in the Sahrawi Tent (Khaima) includes eminent speakers
from the academic and socio-political sphere, NGOs, artists and eye witnesses
of Sahrawi life, films, music and discussion. The list is open to guest
speakers who will be announced online and in leaflets throughout the week.
The
talks, organized by artist Bettina Semmer, Berlin (bettinasemmer@gmail.com),
will be held in English and German language (and Spanish&Arabic, if
requested), in the presence of SADR representative Jamal Zakari, Germany.
http://talkattent.blogspot.de
live
streaming at www.sahara-libre.com presented by Francis Gomila. sahara broadcast
managed by Khalil Hadj.
Schedule:
Daily 6 - 8 pm, panel of speakers with Q
& A for the public.
Daily
10 am - 6pm Sahrawi tea, films and analogue chat.
8. 7.
Prof.
Werner Ruf, Professor for International and intersocietal relations and foreign
politics, University of Kassel (em. 2003), advisory status (EU, GTZ, among
others): “Right to a home, right to a state” (http://www.werner-ruf.net/)
9. 7.
Judit
Smajdli, Anthropologist: “On the Saharaui Tent - Khaima”
Terry
Berkowitz, artist, NY: Interviews with Sahrawi citizens
10. 7.
Human Rights Panel: The Rights of the Saharawi people: As Refugees and as
Residents in the occupied zone of Western Sahara.
Thomas
Schmidt, (lawyer), Secretary General of the European Association of Lawyers for
Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) www.ejdm.de
http://www.eldh.eu
Dr. Annelie Koschella, coordinator Western Sahara, medico international e.V., and Karin Urschel, director of projects, medico international
e.V.,Frankfurt, on the right to health in the refugee camps. www.medico.de, Prof. Werner Ruf, Kassel
11. 7.
Ingunde
Fuehlau, former head of MINURSO in Tindouf
Film:
“El Problema” on life in the occupied territory
12. 7.
Wolfgang
Hofmann, organizer of „Sahara Marathon“, Düsseldorf (www.lauftreffreisen.de)
13. 7.
Francis
Gomila, artist, Berlin: live streaming at www.sahara-libre.com managed by
Khalil Hadj
Bettina Semmer, artist, Berlin: “Art and transformation”
(artists’ projects in Western Sahara, ARTifariti, www.artifariti.org)
14./15.7.
"Projektgruppe
Westsahara" on the initiative of youth exchange and founding of Youth
Centre in Ausserd, Refugee Camps (www.projektgruppe-westsahara.org). Also:
Sahrawis living in Germany speak about their experience (Mohamed Lehbib and
Lemina El-Cheikh)
