Latest
News
Posted 18 August 2008
Australia's Medical Observer has published a letter of Colin's called 'No time to nitpick about climate' in its 15/08/08 issue.
Posted 14 August 2008
We're adding two new entries to our Links page: Indigenous Jumma People's Movement in North America and Jumma Peoples Network UK. Jumma is the collective name of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and includes Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Tengchungya, Chak, Pankho, Mru, Murun, Bawm, Lushai, Khyang and Khumi.
Posted 12 August 2008
Human Rights Watch reports that eight Vietnamese writers were among a group of 34 writers from 19 countries who received Hellman/Hammett awards for courage in facing political persecution. For details, please visit http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=vietna
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners recently broadcast the BBC's 'Undercover in Tibet'. This 'Tibetan exile's view of life under China' included coverage of displaced nomads. For further information, please visit http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2301213.htm
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 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!
