{"id":273,"date":"2013-06-01T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-06-01T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:27:03","slug":"iranian-lawyer-karim-lahidji-elected-president-of-fidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2013\/06\/iranian-lawyer-karim-lahidji-elected-president-of-fidh\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian lawyer, Karim Lahidji, elected President of FIDH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today Karim Lahidji was elected President of FIDH. He succeeds to Souhayr Belhassen who headed the Federation for six years. The vote was held during the 38th FIDH Congress in Istanbul where the FIDH member organisations were meeting to elect the new International Board and define the main FIDH orientations for the next three years.<\/p>\n

There were two candidates for the position: Karim Lahidji, FIDH Vice President and President of the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran, and Luis Guillermo Perez Casas, FIDH Secretary General and member of the CCAJAR. He is the first FIDH President from Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an immense honour to have been elected President of FIDH. My first message is to all the human rights defenders who are arbitrarily detained, wherever they are in the world. We will continue endlessly to call for their immediate, unconditional release. My thoughts turn especially to my colleagues and friends Ales Bialiatski, in prison in Belarus and Nabeel Rajab, detained in Bahrein\u201d, said Karim Lahidji.<\/p>\n

“We would like to reiterate our appeal to the Turkish authorities to free all the journalists, lawyers and unionists who have been arbitrarily detained, in particular Muhammet Erbey, President of the Diyarbakir section of IHD who has been in prison since December 2009 for having denounced human rights violations against the Kurdish minority\u201d, Karim Lahidji added.<\/p>\n

“At present, women\u2019s rights are being threatened in many countries; the universality of rights will be at the heart of our fight, more than ever,\u201d said Karim Lahidji.<\/p>\n

During the 38th FIDH Congress, its movement was reinforced with the number of member leagues increasing from 164 to 178. The Congress adopted 26 resolutions on, e.g. Mali, Syria, Malaysia, Cuba, Russia and Turkey.<\/p>\n

Composition of the new FIDH International Board<\/p>\n

President: Karim Lahidji
\nSouhayr Belhassen was appointed Honorary President of FIDH.<\/p>\n

Vice Presidents:
\nAles Bialiatski, FIDH Vice President, imprisoned in Belarus since 4 August 2011 was reelected.
\nYusuf Alatas, Turkey
\nEzzedine Al Asbahi, Yemen
\nDimitris Christopoulos, Greece
\nNoeline Blackwell, Ireland
\nKatie Gallagher, US
\nTolekan Ismailova, Kyrgyzstan
\nShawan Jabarin, Palestine
\nDismas Kitenge Senga, DRC
\nElsie Monge, Ecuador
\nSheila Muwanga, Uganda
\nRosemarie R. Trajano, Philippines
\nDrissa Traor\u00e9, Ivory Coast
\nPaulina Vega Gonzalez, Mexico
\nZohra Yusuf, Pakistan<\/p>\n

Secretary Generals:
\nAmina Bouyach, Morocco
\nPierre Esperance, Haiti
\nPaul Nsapu, DRC
\nDebbie Stothard, Burma
\nDan Van Raemdonck, Belgium<\/p>\n

Treasurer: Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Plantin, France<\/p>\n

New FIDH member leagues<\/p>\n

South Africa, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)
\nAngola, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Justi\u00e7a, Paz e Democracia (AJPD)
\nSenegal, Ligue S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise des Droits Humains (LSDH)
\nHonduras, Comit\u00e9 de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH)
\nChina, China Labour Bulletin (CLB)
\nIndonesia, KontraS
\nKazakhstan, Kazakstan international Bureau for Human Rights and rule of law (KIBHR)
\nMoldova, Promo-LEX
\nUzbekistan, Association internationale de d\u00e9fense des droits de l\u2019Homme \u00ab Club des c\u0153urs ardents \u00bb
\nTajikistan, Tajik \u201cBureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law\u201d (BHR)
\nEgypt, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)
\nGulf, Gulf Center for Human rights (GCHR)
\nKuwait, Human Line Organisation
\nLebanon, Centre Libanais des Droits Humains (CLDH)
\nLibya, Human Rights Association for Recording and Documenting War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
\nPalestine, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights
\nSyria, Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM)
\nTunisia, Doustourna
\nTunisia, Forum tunisien pour les droits \u00e9conomiques et sociaux (FTDES)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today Karim Lahidji was elected President of FIDH. He succeeds to Souhayr Belhassen who headed the Federation for six years. The vote was held during the 38th FIDH Congress in Istanbul where the FIDH member organisations were meeting to elect the new International Board and define the main FIDH orientations for the next three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,85,7,11,88,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-iran","category-issues","category-slider","category-world","country-iran","country-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}