MOBILE THREAT GLOBALLY

Join industry experts and editors from eWEEK, CIO Insight, Baseline and Channel Insider in a complete 360-degree digital learning environment. Watch live demos and discussions from eWEEK Labs editors as they look at: mobile malware; managing mobile devices in a multi-platform environment; system patching and moving toward a corporate app store.

11:00-11:45 ET
Opening Keynote
The State Of The Mobile Market: Where We've Been And Where We're Going

Moderator: Elliot Markowitz, Vice President, Strategic Content Development, ZDE
Keynote Presenter: Tim Bajarin, President, Creative Strategies Inc.

12:00-12:30 ET
eWEEK Labs
Workshop 1
Successfully Managing Mobile Devices In A Multi-Platform Environment

Demonstrations by:
Jason Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK Labs
P. J. Connolly, Senior Analyst, eWEEK Labs

1:00-1:30 ET
eWEEK Labs
Workshop 2
A Sneak Peak At The Next Mobile Software Development Kits Hitting The Market

Demonstrations by:
Jason Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK Labs
Cameron Sturdevant, Technical Director, eWEEK Labs

2:00-2:45 ET
Industry Roundtable
Mobile Security Threats: What's On The Horizon

Moderator: Elliot Markowitz, VP, Strategic Content Development, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Susan Nunziata, Editor-in-Chief, CIO Insight
Speaker: Guy Currier, Executive Director, Research, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Raffi Jamgotchian, President/CTO, Triada Networks

3:00-3:30 ET
eWEEK Labs
Workshop 3
Successfully Moving Towards A Corporate App Store

Demonstrations by:
Jason Brooks, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK Labs
P. J. Connolly, Senior Analyst, eWEEK Labs

4:00-4:45 ET
Industry Roundtable
Connecting The Dots Between Mobility Cloud And Cloud Computing

Moderator: Elliot Markowitz, VP, Strategic Content Development, Ziff Davis Enterprise
Speaker: Ted Ritter, Sr. Research Analyst, Nemertes Research
Speaker: Mitch Jones, Director of Business Development, Cetrom Information Technology

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Bangabondhu Sangskritik Zott, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

FREEDOM FIGHTER HONOR, MUKTIJODHDHA COUNCIL.(aWAMI)

Speech of Ruhul Amin Howleder, Jatiyo Party (Bangladesh)

Amnesty Int'l, USA

Sidelined in Egypt. Used as a bargaining chip in Afghanistan. Tortured in Zimbabwe. Have things really changed for women?
Become a member of Amnesty and demand fundamental human rights for women.









Dear MUKTI,

They stand bravely – before tanks and guns – to demand an end to political repression. They suffer harassment, abuse, rape and murder when they campaign for equal rights. They do two thirds of the world’s work and produce 80 percent of the food in developing countries.

And still no seat at the table for women?

From Egypt to Afghanistan, whether their countries are engulfed in turmoil or in the process of forming new governments, women are in danger of being sidelined and silenced – again.

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Millions have taken to the streets throughout the Middle East and North Africa calling for change. Both women and men have suffered under repressive governments, but women face discriminatory laws and deeply entrenched gender inequality.

Take Egypt - not one woman was named to the national committee writing the new Egyptian constitution, despite the essential role women played in the protests that led to President Mubarak’s resignation.

Although the international community has agreed time and time again that women’s inequality is not acceptable, governments have a track record of abandoning women’s rights when it seems convenient to do so.

The same governments who claim to be supporters of women’s rights seemed all too willing to trade away women’s rights in negotiations with the Taleban in Afghanistan, or forge alliances with militia in Iraq that attack and kill women’s rights activists. In Russia, the Philippines, Mexico and Nepal, women campaigning for change have recently been murdered for speaking out.

This is not acceptable.

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For there to be lasting and just peace, women must be at the table as full partners. Your support today will help Amnesty campaign to ensure that that happens.

In Solidarity,

Rachel Ward
Deputy Executive Director, Advocacy, Policy and Research
Amnesty International USA


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Bangabandhu Shagskritik Zoot Press Release in Dhaka Bangladesh

A Women's Day for All Egyptians/

A Women's Day for All Egyptians


On International Women's Day 2011, Secretary-General Vidar Helgesen is meeting with a group of women activists in Cairo, Egypt to discuss issues of women's political participation and representation, and related constitutional, electoral and governance reforms. Read his statement below.
Over the past few weeks, observers across the world watched and admired the courageous acts of women and men in North Africa and the Middle East in defying authoritarian regimes and demonstrating their unwavering determination to take their future in their own hands.
The protests generated displays of women practicing their political and civil rights and freedoms along with men, in the streets of Tunis, Cairo and elsewhere and their interest in wanting to be represented and have a say in the way their country is governed.
Yet regrettably, in situations where individual rights and freedoms are circumscribed, women are very often faced with deeply rooted discrimination based on their sex. This is manifested through their unequal legal status, patriarchal societal norms and beliefs opposing women's active participation in public life and limiting their rights and freedoms in private life.
In Egypt, amid the changing political landscape and the pressure to draft a new constitution and hold snap elections, discussions on women's rights and gender equality are critical.
We already see that the legacy of excluding women from political decision making continues. The absence of female experts from the constitutional drafting committee may be just an indication of the uphill struggle ahead. It will be equally important to ensure that women's voices are adequately reflected in the coming electoral and other reforms.
Equal participation of women and men throughout the process of building Egypt's new democracy is the only way to translate into practice their common aspiration for "freedom, equality, social justice" which is the very spirit of the popular uprising. The promise of creating an open society free from political and social exclusion will not materialize if half of the population is excluded.
It will be up to Egyptian women leaders and women activists from across the political spectrum, to push for outcomes that will enhance women's role in public life: their freedom of expression, their opportunity to hold office and their access to justice.
Women will also need to be vigilant and protect some of the incremental gains for women's rights and gender equality that Egypt and other countries in the region have made in the past decades, despite the gross under-representation of women in political decision-making and the multiple forms of discrimination they endure in both the public and private spheres. These achievements include improvements to the personal status and family laws, gender-based quotas for women in legislatures at the national and local level, and greater access for women to education and health services.
Women and men of Egypt and other countries of the Arab region have demonstrated through their uprisings that inclusiveness is a powerful force for change. A conscientious effort is now required to sustain the inclusive participation when democracy moves out of the streets and into political institutions and processes: then democracy will be owned not only by Egyptians but by all Egyptians. In that spirit, the International Women's Day is also a day for men to celebrate: inclusive democracy means stronger democracy, and this is what millions of men in the Arab region are joining with women in demanding. Happy International Women's Day!

Secretary-General, International IDEA
(Complementay by The Muktidooth)
r.kandawasvika-nhundu@idea.int

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Press release from JP Kazi Foroz Rashid

Bongobondhu Sangskritik Zott

Best Regards for the International Woman Day 2011 from The Monthly Muktidooth (mashikmuktidooth)

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Jago Bangladesh Garment's Federation

Latest In national Maehara seeks NZ support in identifying Japanese quake victimsJapan Today

Latest In national
Maehara seeks NZ support in identifying Japanese quake victims

TOKYO — Departing Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, who announced his resignation Sunday over a donation scandal, called his New Zealand counterpart Murray McCully on Monday and sought…Departing Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, who announced his resignation Sunday over a donation scandal, called his New Zealand counterpart Murray McCully on Monday and sought his government’s support in identifying Japanese victims of a major earthquake that hit Christchurch on Feb. 22, Japanese officials said.

In a 15-minute teleconference, Maehara asked for New Zealand’s continued help in realizing requests from the victims’ families, such as confirmation of their kin’s belongings and identification of those who perished, they said.

McCully expressed his gratitude for Japan’s support in the aftermath of the earthquake, such as the dispatch of a disaster relief team, and said the New Zealand government will offer as much support as possible to the Japanese victims’ families, according to the officials.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said Sunday the New Zealand police have confirmed the death of Yoshiko Hirauchi, 61, one of 28 Japanese nationals who remained unaccounted for following the devastating quake that killed more than 160 people.

Courtesey:Japan's Today

National Youth Forum Bangladesh

Jatiyotabadi Nagorik Moncho (Bangladesh)

Moderation or extremism?/: Bomb kills 12 civilians

Moderation or extremism?


Can the moderate path of Islam, practiced in democracies like Malaysia and Turkey, inform countries in the Arab world? And how can those countries, which have recently undergone protests against the the rule of autocratic leaders, ensure that moderation, rather than extremism and violence, triumphs in the region? The World Debate puts these questions to leading figures in the Muslim world, including the Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Ali Babacan. Zeinab Badawi chairs. Moderation or Extremism: Which Will Win? 5 March 15:10

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Afghan official: Bomb kills 12 civilians
By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Rahim Faiez, Associated Press – 1 hr 23 mins ago
KABUL, Afghanistan – A roadside bomb killed 12 civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday in an attack President Hamid Karzai condemned as "against all principles of Islam."
A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province, Mokhlis Afghan, said another five people were wounded Sunday when the bomb planted by insurgents exploded next to a truck carrying civilians. He said the dead included five children, five men and two women. The truck was traveling between the towns of Turwa and Wazakhwa.
The Interior Ministry confirmed the attack but said only 10 people were killed. There was no way to immediately reconcile the difference in numbers.
NATO said initial reports indicated the truck hit a bomb planted in the road.
"This blatant disregard for innocent Afghan lives is appalling," said Rear Adm. Vic Beck, the coalition's director of public affairs.
Paktika borders Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, used as safe havens by insurgents fighting U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan. Insurgents regularly cross the rugged frontier to attack coalition forces and the region has seen an increase in fighting, as well as a rise in casualties.
NATO operations against insurgents in the area have caused friction with the Karzai administration in recent weeks following government charges that the military has caused a number of civilian deaths and casualties.
Last week Karzai warned President Barack Obama that U.S.-led forces must do a better job addressing civilian casualties. He issued the warning during a video conference with Obama after coalition helicopters killed nine Afghan boys in the eastern province of Kunar. NATO forces acknowledged accidentally killing the boys, ages 12 and under.
Earlier this month the Karzai administration claimed that 65 civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in Kunar. NATO has said that video of Kunar operations on Feb. 17 — the main event of more than three days of fighting — showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents, not civilians.
Civilian deaths have jumped this year primarily because of increased attacks from insurgents, according to U.N. data. Insurgents recently have started carrying out indiscriminate attacks against soft targets such as banks, supermarkets and sporting events.
But allegations of civilian deaths from NATO forces — who pledge to protect the population — often cause much more anger.
Hundreds of people from a left-wing political party marched through the streets of central Kabul to protest against U.S. military operations and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops.
They chanted "death to America, death to the American government" and carried pictures of Afghans killed or wounded in recent airstrikes. They later burned an effigy of Obama.
In southern Helmand province, which also has seen heavy fighting, the governor's office said an air strike on Friday killed 11 insurgents, including an insurgent commander for the volatile Sangin district. The militants were killed in a strike on compounds in Musa Qala district, the governor's spokesman said in a statement. The coalition could not confirm the incident.
Initial reports indicated no civilian or military casualties, the statement said.
NATO forces did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation of the incident.
Earlier, NATO said a bombing in southern Afghanistan killed one of its service members on Saturday. It did not provide the victim's nationality or any other details. The coalition typically waits for the relevant national authorities to confirm deaths of service members.
The death was the fourth in March. A total of 71 coalition service members have been killed so far this year.
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AP writer Patrick Quinn contributed to this story from Kabul.

U.N. Unanimously Votes to Suspend Libya from Human Rights Council Hillary Rodham Clinton at U.N. Human Rights Council podium (AP Images) Secretary

Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed the unanimous vote by all 192 member nations of the United Nations General Assembly to suspend Libya from the U.N. Human Rights Council due to its government’s violent attacks on protesters opposed to Muammar Qadhafi’s rule.

“Today’s historic action is the first time that any country serving on the Human Rights Council, or the Commission before it, has ever had its membership suspended,” Clinton said in a March 1 statement. “The international community is speaking with one voice and our message is unmistakable: These violations of universal rights are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.”

The secretary said that through its vote, the General Assembly “has made it clear that governments that turn their guns on their own people have no place on the Human Rights Council,” and she said the United States continues to demand “an immediate halt to the violence perpetrated by the Qadhafi government against its own citizens.”

Speaking in New York March 1, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice described the vote as “unprecedented” and “a harsh rebuke — but one that Libya’s leaders have brought down upon themselves.”

Libya was elected to the 47-member council in May 2010. The final tally of the vote on the resolution calling for its suspension far exceeded the two-thirds majority that was required to approve it.

The United States was a co-sponsor of the resolution. Rice said the General Assembly’s action sends “another clear warning to Mr. Qadhafi and those who still stand by him” that they “must stop the killing” in Libya.

“When the only way a leader can cling to power is by grossly and systematically violating his own people’s human rights, he has lost any legitimacy to rule. He must go, and he must go now,” Rice said.

Rice applauded the U.N. body for its “historic decision,” and said it had acted “in the noblest traditions of the United Nations.”

“Membership on the Human Rights Council should be earned through respect for human rights, and not accorded to those who abuse them,” Rice said.

The resolution followed passage of a measure by the Geneva-based council on February 25 that recommended Libya’s suspension due to its “gross and systematic violations of human rights.” The Human Rights Council also called for the dispatch of “an independent, international commission of inquiry” to investigate alleged human rights violations.

During the council’s February 25 session, U.S. Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe said Libya’s continued participation in the body “undermines the core mission of the council and its mandate and goals.”

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Winners of Global Digital News Frontier Grants Announced by IWMF Three women-led new media projects to receive funding, training

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 15, 2011) – The International Women’s Media Foundation announced today the winners of the inaugural Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Digital News Frontier grants. Each grantee will receive $20,000 to launch innovative new media enterprises.
The winning startup projects include a website that brings transparency to the health care marketplace, a local journalism initiative that serves “news deserts” in the Catskills region of New York and a news service that takes a game-changing approach to international coverage.
The Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Digital News Frontier grant program -- offered for the first time this year -- is generously funded by the Ford Foundation.
The award winners were selected from more than 100 proposals from a diverse array of entrepreneurial women journalists. Key grant criteria included innovation in delivering the news and a clear business plan for achieving sustainability beyond the year-long grant program.
“Promoting women journalists’ professional advancement -- in both traditional and new media -- is a central tenet of the IWMF’s mission,” Liza Gross, executive director of the IWMF said. “We look forward to working with these pioneering women entrepreneurs as they launch their exciting digital media startups.”
“These grants, combined with training the IWMF will be offering, will help women to succeed in new media entrepreneurship, an arena where their numbers have been sorely lacking,” IWMF Advisory Committee Chairman Merrill Brown said. “Each of the winners offers an innovative way to deliver the news, and they are truly at the forefront of the digital media frontier.”
The winners are:
Clearhealthcosts.com, the brainchild of former New York Times veteran editor and reporter Jeanne Pinder, will feature a curated collection of health care pricing information in a consumer-friendly, community-oriented, interactive website that combines reporting, user-generated content and databases to illuminate this largely opaque market.
Latitude, conceived by longtime BBC editor and producer and recent Nieman Fellow Maria Balinska, will approach international journalism by exploring connections between Americans and the rest of the world and promoting a deeper understanding of how the U.S. fits into the global news narrative.
NewsShed, a spinoff enterprise of Julia Reischel and Lissa Harris’s regional news aggregator The Watershed Post, will create self-supporting news websites in small rural towns in the Catskills to build a sustainable model of online-only local journalism in these underserved and economically depressed communities.
In addition to grant funding, Pinder, Balinska, Reischel and Harris will receive pro-bono coaching from respected new media leaders on the IWMF’s Advisory Committee to ensure that they have the right match of support and skills to thrive as digital news entrepreneurs.
Advisory Committee members and mentors include: Merrill Brown, Founder and Principal, MMB Media LLC; Eve Batey, Editor and Publisher, San Francisco Appeal; Christine Herron, Director, Intel Capital; Ben Metcalfe, Founder and CEO, Swordfish Corp; Neal Mohan, Vice President of Product Management, Google; Andrew Nachison, Co-Founder and Managing Director, We Media; Shazna Nessa, Director of Interactive, the Associated Press; Mike Orren, Founder, Panlocal LLC/Pegasus News/The Daily You; Lisa Stone, CEO, BlogHer; and Lisa Williams, CEO and Founder, Placeblogger.com.
The winners will also be featured on a panel moderated by The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson during the IWMF’s International Conference of Women Media Leaders at George Washington University on March 23, 2011.
The IWMF will track the progress of the three winning projects’ progress on the IWMF’s website.
Founded in 1990, The International Women’s Media Foundation is a vibrant global network dedicated to strengthening the role of women in news media worldwide as a means to further press freedom. For more information, visit www.iwmf.org.


(Muktidooth,Dhaka representative)

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