2009年7月11日土曜日

[ipbom] Call for the release of Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire

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Subject: [ipbom] Call for the release of Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire
and human rights activists detained by Israel
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:40:25 +0200
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The Japan-based international NGO Peace Boat (IPB member organisation),
together with the GlobalArticle 9 Campaign, has issued a statement
regarding the detention byIsraeli forces of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead
Maguire and human rights activists on a humanitarian mission to Gaza.

Please circulate widely.

http://www.peaceboat.org/english/nwps/sm/arc/090702/index.html


For further information, please contact:
Meri Joyce
pbglobal@peaceboat.gr.jp
Phone +81-3-3363-8047

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2 July 2009 TOKYO

*Call for the release of Mairead Maguire and human rights activists on
humanitarian mission to Gaza detained by Israel*

Peace Boat is deeply concerned by the detention by Israeli forces of
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and approximately 20 human rights
activists participating in the eighth mission of the Free Gaza Movement
aimed at delivering critically needed humanitarian aid to the people of
Gaza and bringing attention to the Israeli blockade. Also on board the
two detained ships were former United States Congresswoman Cynthia
McKinney, as well as human rights activists, journalists and academics
from 11 countries.

Reports describe that late on the afternoon of June 30, the Israeli
military forcibly boarded the Free Gaza fishing boat on which the
activists were travelling, and detained them. The ship, accompanied by
another boat ? the Spirit of Humanity ? was carrying vital medical
supplies, construction materials, children's toys and olive trees to
deliver to Gaza.

According to a new International Committee of the Red Cross report, 1.5
million people are “trapped in despair” and poverty, with insufficient
access to health care, clean water and other basic necessities, unable
to rebuild their homes and their lives, due to the closure imposed on
the territory. It is against “this cruel siege of Gaza by the Israeli
Government, and to show the people of Gaza that the world does care what
is happening to them” that Mairead Maguire embarked on the Free Gaza
Movement’s mission.

The fact that Nobel Peace Laureate Ms Maguire, renowned for her pacifism
and nonviolent actions, could be detained on such a humanitarian mission
is something that we, working towards a peaceful, sustainable society
with respect for human rights, cannot accept. Ms Maguire's determined
participation in this humanitarian mission to Gaza demonstrates her
lifelong dedication to peace, non-violence and human rights.

Mairead Maguire is a strong advocate of the Global Article 9 Campaign to
Abolish War (of which Peace Boat serves as Secretariat), a campaign that
strives to protect the war-renouncing clause of the Japanese
Constitution and build an international movement to call for a global
peace that does not rely on force. Her commitment to the Article 9
Campaign only emphasises the peaceful, humanitarian nature of the
activities that Ms Maguire and the other activists on the Free Gaza
Movement mission had undertaken.

As an organisation that also carries out peace missions and delivery of
humanitarian aid supplies by ship, Peace Boat has over many years
maintained grassroots exchange with the citizens of Palestine and Israel
during our voyages at sea and visits to the region, and we have been
dedicated to humanitarian support for the Palestinians suffering through
the inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza. We are thus deeply concerned by
Ms. Maguire's and the other activists' detention and by the obstruction
of their humanitarian mission. We join our voice to the international
call for the immediate and unconditional release of the group and the
confiscated aid items, as well as for the unhindered continuation of the
peace mission.

For more information, see:

Free Gaza Movement: http://www.freegaza.org

Nobel Women's Initiative: http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/


ICRC’s June 2009 Gaza Report:
http://icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/palestine-report-260609


Peace Boat: http://www.peaceboat.org/english

pbglobal@peaceboat.gr.jp
Phone +81-3-3363-8047
Fax +81-3-3363-7562

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