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"Stop Child Executions"
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About Us - Meet The Team
www.stopchildexecutions.com
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About Nazanin Afshin-Jam (Canada)
Nazanin
Afshin-Jam is an International human rights activist and recording
artist.
After leading a successful campaign to save the life of a young girl
on death row named Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi (www.helpnazanin.com),
she recognized the need to put a permanent end to executions of minors
in Iran and abroad. She is now the co-founder and President of the
'Stop Child Executions' organization.
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About David Etebari (USA)
David Etebari is the co-founder of Stop Child Executions . Born in Tehran, Iran he has lived in the USA for 30 years. David has written many articles for major internet sites and blogs and he also has created video collages posted on YouTube and Google, some seen by more than 300,000 viewers.. Since the early days of the campaign to save Nazanin Fatehi, David spent countless hours bringing worldwide awareness to the plight of minors facing execution in Iran. He initiated the myspace site for Nazanin Fatehi which was viewed by more than 100,000 visitors. He later created the myspace page for Delara Darabi. The two sites were among the most interactive internet sites to address the issue of minors facing execution. He also initiated the wikipedia pages for Nazanin Fatehi, Delara Darabi and the Stop Child Executions.
As the former campaign coordinator and vice president of Stop Child Executions, David played a major role in planning, organization and coordination of the SCE as well as research and editorial of the SCE news updates. David Etebari currently maintains an advisory and support role at SCE..
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About Kristian (Norway)
Kristian is a Norwegian university
student who began working on human rights after he read the story
of Nazanin Fatehi in a newspaper. He was extremely moved by her story
and tried to raise public awareness about Nazanin by writing to newspapers
and internet blogs with limited success. Kristian decided to try another
approach and made the
Support Nazanin
website which managed to raise a great amount of attention. Synchronicity
played a part as the creation of the website coincided with the start
of Nazanin Afshin-Jam's petition for Nazanin Fatehi.
Kristian decided to write to Nazanin Afshin-Jam and told her about
his website. Once they had made contact and realized their common
goal, they began to work together. Today Kristian continues to work
with Nazanin Afshin-Jam's human rights efforts and brings his experience
to the team and the Stop Child Executions Campaign.
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About D.W. Duke (USA)
D.W. Duke is a principle in the California law
firm of Giardinelli & Duke, APC. He received his Juris Doctorate from
Washington University School of Law. Mr. Duke is a noted lecturer
on various legal matters and has published several books on legal
topics including Principles of Liberty, a Practical Guide to Constitutional
Law, Understanding and Avoiding Medical Malpractice and California
Insurance Law. D.W. assists SCE Campaign with legal research with
respect to international convention and obligations and also contributes
articles and reports on the subject of Child Executions.
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About Donna Greene (Australia)
Donna is a family woman, musician
& entertainer, graphic artist & web designer from Australia running
her own artwork & design business with husband & Australian music
artist, Graham Greene.
As well as being a member of
Artists for Human Rights, Donna has been involved with the plight
of 'street-kids' and their shortcomings from a very young age and
has always endeavoured to help to guide them where ever possible through
any medium she is involved with. Having been involved through her
artistic and musical submissions to the MySpace 'Save Nazanin' and
'Help Delara' campaigns, she now lends her talents to the greater
cause and is a contributing artist & website designer for the Stop
Child Executions Campaign.
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About Dave Rea (USA)
Born in California, Dave grew up in Alabama where
he currently makes his home. After watching a
film about
Atefah Rajabi, a young girl who was executed at the age of 16
in the Islamic Republic Of Iran, he learned the story of Nazanin Fatehi,
another young girl facing execution. Being deeply moved with compassion,
he knew he had to do something to help in any way he could. He now
campaigns to help raise awareness and get others involved in saving
the lives of all the minors who sit on death row awaiting execution.
In addition to campaigning, Dave Rea coordinates the volunteer workers
of the campaign and manages the Stop Child Executions site at
www.care2.com
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About Aubrey Harris (Amnesty
International Liaison)
Born in England, Aubrey moved to Canada with his family when he
was 2 years old. Aubrey lives and works in Toronto, Ontario and
is the Coordinator for the Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty
for Amnesty International's Canadian Section (English-Speaking Branch).
He holds an honours degree in philosophy from the University of
Western Ontario and is also active with the Australian Football
in Canada. In 2005 Aubrey was a member of Northwind, AFL Canada's
national football team, traveling to Australia for the International
Cup. He is also a former Royal Canadian Sea Cadet who trained and
worked as a medical assistant in British Columbia and achieved the
ranks of Chief Petty Officer Second-Class and Regulating Petty Officer
at his corps.
As the liaison with Amnesty International
Canada, Aubrey works with Stop Child Executions and Amnesty
International to help coordinate and communicate the efforts of
both organizations to end child executions everywhere. Amnesty International
works to end all forms of executions as a violation of articles
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About Aida (Canada)
Aida was born 7 years after the 1979 revolution
in Iran. Being political activists and in fear of their lives, Aida's
parents were forced to flee Iran when Aida was only 6 months old.
After a long journey Aida eventually arrived in Canada at the age
of 5 but her father had passed away before they completed their journey.
"I am here now and following in his footsteps...I want Iran to change
for the better," Aida says.
She is now attending college and is planning to finish her studies
in Political Science and International relations. After hearing about
Nazanin Fatehi's campaign and petition, Aida helped gather signatures
and created a Nazanin Fatehi support group on Facebook. Aida has been
a supporter of the campaign to stop child execution and is currently
managing the SCE site on
Orkut.com, as well as the SCE group on
Facebook.
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About Hannah Bahmanpour (Canada)
Hannah was born in Tehran, but her parents immigrated to Canada when she was seven years old, in hopes of liberty and a better future. Since childhood she has known that she wants to spend her life advocating and helping others in the fight for human rights.
Currently, Hannah is completing her undergrad in a Bachelor of Honours in Criminology, and hopes to continue by obtaining a Masters degree in public policy or international relations and finally pursuing a law degree. In addition, she is an executive member of the Criminology Society, a member of AIDWYC (Association in the Defence for the Wrongly Convicted), a police auxiliary officer and a certified mediator working on the Iranian Family Well-Being Project.
After hearing about Nazanin Afshin-Jam’s work to save Nazanin Fatehi from execution, Hannah felt certain that this was the direction she wanted her life to head towards. Currently she manages the SCE twitter blog and the SCE account on Iranian.com, and she is working towards expanding SCE to facilitate a group of volunteers in Toronto.
Hannah says: “With all of the hard work and continuous fight for justice, I am optimistic that we will see change in the near future!”
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