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Posted 29 July 2008
For recent photographs of the Shishu Koruna Sangha (SKS) school and complex, please visit Kulottam Chakma's website at http://kchakma.angelfire.com/kolkata_images/. BODHI supports SKS's Bodhicariya Education Project.
Posted 28 July 2008
Colin and two other consultants from the Australian National University, Professor Tony McMichael and Dr. Haylee Weaver, prepared a draft paper that examined the links between climate change and AIDS. Please visit Examining links between AIDS and climate change for highlights of the main findings from the paper.
Posted 27 July 2008
At BODHI Australia’s Annual General Meeting on 22nd June, the Mizoram Health Care Committee was formed to develop and oversee a health project in Mizoram, NE India. We hope to have more information, some photos and a web page in the middle of August.
Posted 26 July 2008
BODHI Human Rights Committee members Dr Martin Rubin and Scott Trimingham have been busy in the United States, organising a university human rights talk (Marty) and fundraising for Mitini Nepal (Scott). Please see our Human Rights Committee page for details.
Posted 25 July 2008
Here's the first paragraph from yesterday's Human Rights Watch about the Nepalese government's crackdown on Tibetan demonstrators.
(New York, July 24, 2008) – The government of Nepal, under pressure from China, has arbitrarily arrested hundreds of Tibetans and restricted their right to demonstrate against the March 2008 crackdown in Tibet, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. Human Rights Watch called on Nepal to respect Tibetans’ rights to free expression and assembly, and for China to end its pressure campaign against Nepal.
Please click here for the full article or visit www.hrw.org for more information about Human Rights Watch.
Posted 14 July 2008
BODHI Australia's Annual General Meeting 2008 was held on 22 June in Campbell Town, Tasmania.
Posted 25 June 2008
Prof Colin Soskolne, Canada, also participated in the recent UN Day of Vesak in Hanoi, Vietnam. He sent in this link to lovely photographs taken by Ricardo Sasaki.
Posted 24 June 2008
We've added exchanged links with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, whose mission is to endorse and promote indigenous peoples' right to self-determination, their cultural integrity and their right to development on their own conditions.
Posted 23 June 2008
On 19th June, BODHI Community Adviser Dr Shanti Raman received the 2008 NSW Refugee Humanitarian Award, presented by STARTTS & Refugee Council of Australia. Congratulations, Shanti!
Earlier in the year, we posted news of floods, bamboo flowering and a consequent rat plague in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Kabita Chakma, BODHI Community Adviser and member of our Human Rights Committee, reports that Australia will provide $500,000 in emergency assistance for remote indigenous communities suffering severe food shortages because of the rat plague in the CHT. Please see this press release of the Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan. For further information, please see CHT Bamboo Flowering Report and When the Rats Came Calling.
BODHI Australia's Annual General Meeting was held yesterday. Minutes will be posted soon.
Posted 10 June 2008
We have added the website of Karuna Germany to our Links page. The registered charity Karuna Deutschland e.V. was set up in 2006 by a group of German Buddhists to fundraise for projects in South Asia. The charity’s aim is to support projects for the benefit of Indian ex-Untouchables and other people in need. Presently, there are projects in Dalit communities in India, in the hill region of Bangladesh, and in the poor countryside of Nepal receiving support. The focus is on health care, education and on women’s empowerment.
Posted 9 June 2008
As mentioned in May, Professor Colin Butler was on the International Organising Committee (IOC) for the 6th United Nations Day of Vesak (UNDV) celebrations, held 13-18 May 2008, in Hanoi, Vietnam. The theme of the gathering was Buddhist Contribution to Building a Just, Democratic and Civil Society. There were eight workshops, including one that Colin helped organise and chair, called Care for our Environment: Buddhist Response to Climate Change. Click to see the five recommendations of Colin’s workshop. Please see BODHI Times 34 for an edited report.
BODHI Times 34 is now online. We hope you enjoy it.
From the Medical Director's Desk has been updated to include 'Caring for our only home', from BODHI Times 34.
BODHI Community Adviser Mr Kulottam Chakma has posted images on his website from his recent trip to the Chittagong Hill Tracts and Northeast India. Please see http://kchakma.angelfire.com/cht_images and http://kchakma.angelfire.com/kolkata_images.
Posted 8 June 2008
BODHI would like to congratulate Dr Colin Butler, our Medical Director, who has been appointed Associate Professor at the Australian National University. He will work at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH). Well done, Professor Butler!
Posted 27 May 2008
Mr Kulottam Chakma has updated the report of his trip to Tripura, India. Please click here for the report or visit Kulottam's website at http://kchakma.angelfire.com/tripura.
Posted 22 May 2008
BODHI Adviser Sister Mila de Gimeno, of the Missionaries of the Assumption in Davao City, the Phillippines, sent these reflections of a three-day conference in which twelve chiefs of the Matigsalog tribe gathered to settle differences in the implementation of their customary laws and foster uniformity in their implementation.
Posted 13 May 2008
Colin is in Hanoi, Vietnam, as part of the International Organising Committee (IOC) for the 6th United Nations Day of Vesak, about which he will write in the next Medical Director's Desk. The main theme of the gathering is Buddhist Contribution to Building a Just, Democratic and Civil Society. There are eight workshops consisting of one main theme and seven sub-themes. Sub Theme 4 is Care for our Environment: Buddhist Response to Climate Change. For further information, please see http://vesakday2008.com.
BODHI Community Adviser Mr Kulottam Chakma visited Tripura in northeast India, Kolkata, India and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh in his continuing humanitarian efforts for the Jumma community. Please visit his website at http://kchakma.angelfire.com/tripura or click here for Kulottam's report and selected photographs of the Tripura part of his journey.
Posted 6 May 2008
BODHI Community Adviser Dr Shanti Raman has published a paper on human rights and child health in the Journal of Paeds and Child Health, as well as one on refugee child health in the conference proceedings of the Population Health Congress, 'A Global World - Practical Action for Health and Well Being,' held in Brisbane, Australia, 6-9 July, 2008.
Posted 4 May 2008
Please see the Food Security section of Hot Topics for Colin's article, Free trade in food: moral and physical hazards, in Hester R, ed. Modern Agricultural Practices: their environmental, social and public health impacts.
Posted 23 April 2008
* BODHI US directors Colin Butler, Susan Woldenberg Butler, Marty Rubin and Scott Trimingham met earlier this month in Southern California. Among matters discussed were new projects Mitini Nepal and the health-care centre at Tashi Lhapug in Eastern Tibet. Marty updated us on his human rights activities and Scott offered guidance on fundraising. We are working on the minutes. Meanwhile, here are photos of Colin, Susan and Scott and Colin and Marty (and the Easter bilby!)
* The entire Chittagong Hills Tracts in Bangladesh, bordering the Indian state of Mizoram, have been affected by gregarious flowering of bamboo. This phenomemon occurs once every fifty years and leads to 'huge rat populations feeding on agricultural crops in the fields and granaries, which subsequently can cause famine.' For two different views and photographs, please see the UNDP's CHT draft report and 'When the rats came calling,' Dilip Chakma's serialised article in Newslink, the daily newspaper of Mizoram's capital, Aizawl.
* Dr Jane Stephens, a British GP in London, has been working in Nepal since 1993. She set up the Green Tara Trust in 1999 to provide ‘health-related services to some of the most disadvantaged children, women and men in rural areas of Nepal. In Kathmandu Dr Stephens discovered Mitini Nepal, another disadvantaged group and made a proposal to BODHI, which we have accepted. It will be online soon.
Posted 22 April 2008
BODHI welcomes Mr Dilip Chakma to our Human Rights Committee. Dilip is a law student in Bangalore, India who co-founded with other students the Friends of the Chakmas (FOTC). Please visit this link for an article from the FOTC newsletter on malaria in Mizoram, in NE India.
Jill Jameson, who works with the International Women's Development Agency and Buddhist Peace Fellowship, was part of a delegation that visited Rangoon, Burma and Mae Sot on the Burma-Thai border in December, 2007. She sent this report and projects list.
Posted 20 April 2008
Colin's PhD thesis, Inequality and Sustainability is freely from available http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20030324.171924/index.html
Posted 29 February 2008
Colin has a paper in the latest Journal of Bioethical Enquiry. It argues that a combination of increasing inequality, hypocrisy, population growth and adverse global environmental change imperils our civilisation. You may read the abstract or, for the full copy, go to http://www.springerlink.com/content/5206j1211313m385/ (if you have access) or email colin.butler@anu.edu.au.
Posted 27 February 2008
We love maps and could gaze at them endlessly. Remember those old black-and-white war-movie maps over which a military commander presided, hands behind his back? We're thinking about something similar with markers pinpointing the location of our projects. Meanwhile, here's a map of Asia which we lifted off Google Maps. Any ideas?
Posted 26 February 2008
A brand-new project is taking shape: Tashi Lhapug Health Care Centre in Eastern Tibet. It will provide traditional Tibetan medical services to nomads and monks in an area that is 10 hours' drive by Jeep from Jamseng Health Care Centrein Zadoh. This is still in the planning stage.
Posted 25 February 2008
We've begun financial as well as publicity support for a health care clinic for nomads in Eastern Tibet. Please see BODHI's Current Projects or visit Jamseng Health Care Centre.
Posted 24 February 2008
We're updating the website and are currently resurrecting all of Colin's columns From the Medical Director's Desk, as they appear in our newsletter, BODHI Times. It may take some time to bring them all to our exacting standards, so please be patient.
Posted 21 February 2008
Click here to read about the silent genocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
Posted 18 February 2008
* Through the Australian Jumma community, BODHI is in its second year of supporting the Bodhicariya Education Project, part of the vision of the Shishu Koruna Sangha (SKS) in Kolkata, India.
* BODHI Australia 2007 Annual General Meeting AGM 2007 Minutes and photograph
* BODHI Times 33 now online
* A new care centre for very needy children has been started in a slum in East Pune, India. Baldasan Care Centre for Malnourished Children below the Poverty Line
Posted 15 February 2008
Dr Sonal Singh writes, 'We are in the process of arranging a health seminar for Sangeetha in Kathmandu, Nepal and will be in touch once we have finalised it.' Train-the-Trainer
Posted 14 February 2008
Mr Lalith Halangoda, Director, Udana Special Children's Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka shares year-end celebrations. Year End Party 2007
Posted 13 February 2008
Dr Colin Butler is on the International Organizing Committee (IOC) for this May event in Hanoi, Vietnam. United Nations Day of Vesak 2008
Posted
19 November 2007
6th
United Nations Day of Vesak, Vietnam
Posted
10 April 2007
Udana
Special Needs Children's College, Sri Lanka
Posted
17 March 2007
Revolving
Sheep Bank -
Phase 2
continues and Phase 3 begins
building on success with Phase 1....
Posted
26 September 2006
Bodhi
Talks to ABC Radio National about the Revolving Sheep Bank
Listen to the broadcast
Posted
14 September 2006
Revolving
Sheep Bank - Phase 2 now under way!
building on success with Phase 1....
Posted
31 August 2006
BODHI
makes Courier Mail* blog!
[*The Courier Mail is the largest daily paper in Queensland,
Australia.]
Read
the story and the comments.... (add your own!)
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Posted
8 August 2006
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8 July 2006
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BODHI
advisor Shelley Anderson co-nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
The seven women in the International Fellowship of Reconciliation's
Women's Peacemaker's Program, which includes BODHI Advisor
Shelley Anderson,
have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Although
they didn't win (this time), to have her life's work so recognised
is a great honour, and helps us all to keep going.
Well
done, Shelley! |
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