The Greening of Democracy

Institute for Democracy and Human Rights
Lunchtime Seminar

The Greening of Democracy


Professor John Keane

University of Sydney

 

 

John Keane's talk aims to provoke discussion about the long-term, 'deep' effects of green politics on the language and institutions and 'imaginary' of democracy. Some of these effects are more obvious than others, he points out. In half a generation, green-minded intellectuals, movements and political parties have helped ensure that such matters as chemical pollutants, nuclear power, carbon emissions, climate change and species destruction are 'in the air' and firmly on the policy agenda of democratic politics. Public awareness that humans are the only biological species ever to have occupied the entire planet, with potentially catastrophic consequences, is growing. Green politics has helped popularise precautionary attitudes towards 'progress' and its blind embrace. It has also tabled vital tactical questions: for instance, whether priority should be given to civic initiatives and social movements or to the formation of political parties and alliances with mainstream parties, how green parties are best kept 'democratic', and whether their political success requires broadening green politics to include themes such as immigration and gender discrimination.

 

Despite these notable achievements, John Keane argues, the profoundly radical implications of green politics for the way people imagine and live democracy remain poorly understood. Levels of support for democratic principles certainly run high within green circles, as confirmed by the widespread uproar triggered by James Lovelock's suggestion that it 'may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while'. Yet why people with green sympathies should embrace democracy for more than tactical reasons, whether democratic principles themselves can be 'greened' and what that might imply for the way people imagine to be the essence or 'spirit' of democracy are matters that remain obscure within green circles and beyond – or so this talk on green politics and the future of democracy suggests.

 

Professor John Keane is Director of the newly-founded Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) at the University of Sydney. His full-length history of democracy, The Life and Death of Democracy was short-listed for the 2010 Prime Minister's Non-Fiction Literary Award. 

 

Wednesday 1st May 2013

12:30 – 2pm

 

R.C Mills Boardroom 148, Level 1, R.C Mills Building

The University of Sydney


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IDHR@sydney.edu.au

For More Information on the IDHR Lunchtime Seminar Series - http://sydney.edu.au/arts/idhr/news_events/index.shtml

EU-India free trade deal puts millions of lives at risk


 

 

Brussels, 9 April, 2013 - As European Commission (EC) pressure mounts on India to rush into signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by mid-April, campaigners from across Europe mobilised in Brussels today to demand the EC withdraw provisions that will harm people's access to medicines in India and across the developing world. Civil society organisations have learnt through leaked texts that the EC, in closed-door negotiations, is aggressively pushing for stronger industry control at the expense of public health, threatening millions of lives.

 

"In the wake of several recent pro-public health decisions in India, the EU is now doubly keen to shut down India as the 'pharmacy to the developing world' and ensure the profits of its pharmaceutical companies are kept intact", said Leïla Bodeux of Oxfam. "Eighty per cent of medicines used to treat HIV in the developing world come from India, and if the EU succeeds in retaining the harmful provisions that remain in the agreement, it would cut off this lifeline supply for millions of people."

 

Under pressure from public health groups, certain provisions damaging to access to medicines such as patent term extensions have been removed from the proposed deal. However, the intellectual property (IP) enforcement and investment provisions are still seriously concerning, particularly as an early April deadline to sign the agreement is imminent.

 

"This attack on the health of the world's poorest is seriously concerning, particularly as a deadline to sign the agreement draws ever nearer and could be days away", said Carl Schlyter, MEP for the Green Party. "The EC cannot claim it supports access to medicines and is concerned about the lives of people in developing countries, and in the same breath be pushing harsh provisions around intellectual property enforcement on India."

 

"I'm urging the European parliament: don't accept the provisions that will impact so many lives before you sign on the dotted line."

 

Dressed as zombies, wearing ripped and bloody suits representing European trade negotiators, the campaigners from organisations including Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Stop AIDS Campaign, Health Action International (HAI) Europe and Act-Up Paris protested outside the European Parliament alongside concerned MEPs.

 

"Some FTA harmful provisions are similar to ACTA, an anti-counterfeiting deal which was killed off thanks to intense public scrutiny. But now they are back: this is the issue that just never dies," said Lotti Rutter from the Stop AIDS Campaign.

 

Enforcement provisions could potentially block the production and export of generic medicines from India – a lifeline for millions of people across the developing world. Enforcement provisions would open the door to abusive practices from multinational corporations, by allowing medicines to be delayed, seized, detained and destroyed.

 

Measures on investment could see the Indian government – as well as third parties like treatment providers such as MSF - sued by multinational companies for billions of dollars in private arbitration panels if national laws, policies, court decisions or other actions are perceived to interfere with their investments – for example, if an Indian patent office rejects or overrides a patent on a medicine to increase access. 

 

"As treatment providers, we are alarmed about the impact of these measures if they go through. Not only will they put another nail in the coffin of access to the affordable, quality medicines MSF relies on to treat patients across the world, but we could be at-risk of being embroiled in disputes for simply using generic medicines. Europe should drop all demands that threaten public health in all their trade negotiations," said Katy Athersuch, MSF Access Campaign.

 

The anticipated conclusion of the EU-India FTA in early April has sparked protests across Asia, Europe and Africa – the continent that could stand to lose the most from an agreement.

 

This FTA is just the latest in a long line of negotiations by the EU to impose stricter IP provisions on developing countries; The EU is currently in FTA negotiations with India, ASEAN, Malaysia and Ukraine, and is planning negotiations with Thailand, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, among others.

 

"We are extremely worried; in our region, people living with HIV are benefitting from generic antiretroviral medicines imported from India", said Othman Mellouk from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition in the Middle East and North Africa. "Such an agreement between India and Europe will have harmful consequences and prevent the access to essential medicines in our region, and we call on the European Commission to stop its trade policy that only benefits pharmaceutical companies and negatively affects people in developing countries".

Hinduism and Climate Change

Makarand Paranjape* 

Many Hindus recite a short Sanskrit prayer before stepping onto the floor after they wake up in the morning: 

Samudra vasane Devi,
            Parvata stana mandale
            Vishnupatni namastubhyam, 
            Paada sparsham kshamasva me.

O! Mother Earth, who has the ocean as clothes

and mountains and forests on her body,

who is the wife of Lord Vishnu, I bow to you. 
Please forgive me for touching you with my feet. 

The whole earth is sacred. Earth, which is a well-endowed, beautiful Goddess, the wife of Vishnu, the Lord who sustains the universe. Such a Goddess, who deserves our reverence, must forgive us for we step on her so carelessly. The poet thinks of the earth in such lofty terms. The earth, so patient, so passionate, so forgiving, is our mother. You throw your garbage on her, you mine her depths, you pollute her with radioactive waste, but she does not react or retaliate. So patient and gentle is she, is our mother earth. Hindus consider every river, every mountain to be sacred. They bathe in rivers, build temples upon tall mountains. 

Yet, unfortunately, no river is clean in India today, no river is fit to bathe in. The Yamuna, the scene of the legendry frolics of Krishna, is scarcely more than a sewage drain. The Narmada, one of our most sacred rivers, is little more than a trickle. The river is dying. Many millions of rupees were spent cleaning the Ganga, India's holiest river, but she too is incredibly filthy. 

Let me quote a few excerpts from an eloquent document called "Hindu Declaration on Climate Change," presented at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Melbourne, Australia, December 8, 2009.

 

"The Hindu tradition understands that man is not separate from nature, that we are linked by spiritual, psychological and physical bonds with the elements around us. Knowing that the Divine is present everywhere and in all things, Hindus strive to do no harm. We hold a deep reverence for life and an awareness that the great forces of nature—the earth, the water, the fire, the air and space—as well as all the various orders of life, including plants and trees, forests and animals, are bound to each other within life's cosmic web. …

 

We cannot continue to destroy nature without also destroying ourselves. The dire problems besetting our world—war, disease, poverty and hunger—will all be magnified many fold by the predicted impacts of climate change. …

 

Humanity's very survival depends upon our capacity to make a major transition of consciousness, equal in significance to earlier transitions from nomadic to agricultural, agricultural to industrial and industrial to technological. We must transit to complementarity in place of competition, convergence in place of conflict, holism in place of hedonism, optimization in place of maximization. We must, in short, move rapidly towards a global consciousness that replaces the present fractured and fragmented consciousness of the human race.

 

Mahatma Gandhi urged, 'You must be the change you wish to see in the world.' If alive today, he would call upon Hindus to set the example, to change our lifestyle, to simplify our needs and restrain our desires." 

Reverence for all life, preserving the earth, sharing and compassion - these are some of the obvious values in the Declaration. But there is another aspect: what you can't save you have to mend. If we cannot save ourselves from climate change, then we must have the compassion to share what we have with those who are going to be far more seriously affected than ourselves. Climate refugees are going to be at our door step, knocking at our doors for the resources we have. And the rich people are going to say: "These poor people, look how they multiply! What a nuisance." But will this work? We will have to learn to share what we have with them. I mean I am going to give up my air conditioners!—each one will have to pay a price for helping others. I know many people will resent this, especially those who chill their rooms so cold in summer that they use two blankets. 

Finally, in the declaration they say that beyond a point, you can't save the world. It exists in an endless cycle of creation and destruction, every dissolution being the preamble for the next creative impulse. Hindus still know we must do all that is humanly possible to protect the earth and the resources for the present as well as future generations, but we must also remember that we are placed on earth to find out the nature of ultimate reality. The world is a bridge; we can't build our homes on it. We have to think beyond the mere materiality of our lives to a higher dimension of consciousness. 

For Hindus creation is in cycles, there are yugas or eons in which creation occurs, followed by destruction. So the destruction of this world of ours is also inevitable. Science also confirms this, not only in the theory of entropy, but in telling us that the sun itself has a limited life span. When it runs out of fuel, it'll become a black hole. The earth is much younger than the sun. It has not been here forever. No one can predict how long life, as we know it, will continue. How it came about is itself a puzzle; it is not clear what it is for or how long it will continue. But we do know that nothing is forever. 

Buddhists talk about anitya or anicha—transience; everything is transient, mutable and temporary. Our bodies are transient; we are not going to be here forever. We must therefore accept that this earth and the life it supports will also not go on forever. That does not mean that we should destroy the earth! But then the question is: why are we on this earth? The answer given is the very transience of all earthly joys makes you ask what is real, what is the nature of reality? That is why the Buddha says the world is on fire. Find out the reality. The reality for him is sunyata, the void, the nirvana or release into what is beyond the appearance. The implication is that when you inquire into the nature of earthly existence it points you towards a true understanding of reality. Everything on earth is so arranged that you begin to find your true self. 

Instead, I think life on the earth challenges us to transform ourselves personally, socially and ecologically. We are not saviours, we are ourselves complicit subjects. Let's not get into the ecological sin doctrine, the ecological saviour doctrine, and thus buy into ecological salvationism, ecological redemption, and ecological heaven. I don't think this is going to be helpful. Rather we have to go for transformation of some sort during our limited span on earth. Reducing our own violence and destructive potential and actually finding our own fate in this process. 

To conclude, I just want to say that the earth is facing an unprecedented challenge. And there are two paths ahead: one is that we commit suicide, we do it quickly or slowly. We destroy all our resources and our habitat and then we die. Have you seen TheMatrix? Mr. Smith, the computer programme who hates humans, tells Neo, the protagonist, something amazing. He says that human beings are like a virus; they are the only species which takes over a habitat, which multiplies so much, which kills all the other species, which eats up everything else there, which destroys the habitat and then moves on into another habitat to do the same thing. It takes it over, destroys everything else in it, and finishes off that habitat too. Mr. Smith says, "I hate human beings, I don't like their smell, I want to rid the earth of human beings." Do we want to behave as Mr. Smith claims we do? Or do we want to change? 

Hinduism, similarly, is in a crisis. I am not just saying that there is a climate crisis but that Hinduism is in crisis! Unless we find a way to be Hindu all over again in a way that is ecologically responsible, which is socially compassionate, we are going to be very bad Hindus. And I see really bad Hindus all around me: They talk one thing and do something else. This is what we have become: competitive, uncaring, loud, vulgar, un-aesthetic, out of touch with the earth... 

We live in very interesting times. A crisis, after all, is also a time of change. In the world of medical sciences the word crisis also means a turning point after which the disease can either worsen or go towards a cure. That is where we are, in the eye of the storm, in a crisis of unprecedented dimensions. A crisis of ecology, economics, and evolution. A crisis from which a new combination of technology and spirituality will need to kick in to save us. And such a crisis also needs an integral and unified response. If we rise up to the challenge we may transform ourselves. Otherwise the writing is on the wall. Our planet will be destroyed by our own wantonness and we will all perish. We need a new Advaita, one that emphasizes the interconnectedness of everything, which will be one way to move forward from this crisis. 

*Makarand Paranjape is professor of English Literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of many books on religious and cultural themes. What is presented above are excerpts from a talk he gave at Fireflies Ashram, Bangalore, in November 2012. 

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Nepal: a survivor of enforced disappearance and torture petitions UN Human Rights Committee

News Release


April 22, 2013 - Nepalese media release attached hereby

Survivor of enforced disappearance and torture in Nepal's conflict petitions UN Human Rights Committee for justice

Geneva, 22 April 2013 – TRIAL today submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee, alleging the unlawful detention, enforced disappearance and torture of Himal Sharma from 2003 to 2005 by state security forces, during the height of the armed conflict in Nepal.

Disappeared and tortured

On 21 October 2003, Himal Sharma was unlawfully arrested in Kathmandu by members of state security forces dressed in civilian clothes. He was taken to the notorious Maharajgunj barracks run by the Bhairabnath Battalion of the Royal Nepalese Army and forcibly disappeared for almost a year and a half. During more than 500 days he was subjected to torture.

"Throughout my detention, the authorities denied they had me – even to my wife and even to the Supreme Court of Nepal," said Himal Sharma. "They deny it to this day, but they have to acknowledge what was done to me and many others, including those who did not survive Maharajgunj."

Himal Sharma's wife, left with three young children, suspected her husband had been taken by the army and launched a search for him. But it took until March 2005 to locate him. By then, Himal Sharma had been moved to Mahendradal Battalion barracks in the district of Gorkha in mid-western Nepal. It then took a further seventeen months to secure his effective release.

At the time of his unlawful arrest, Nepal was fighting an armed conflict with Maoist insurgents. Himal Sharma held the post of Secretary-General of the All Nepal National Independent Student Union Revolutionary, the student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The detention and torture of suspected Maoist sympathisers at the hands of the Bhairabnath Battalion is retold in the filmSlaughterhouse ("Badhshala"), which hit screens in Nepal on 19 April 2013 after previously being banned by the authorities.

"What happened to me must never happen to anyone again in Nepal. This is why I continue to fight for justice", said Himal Sharma.


Total impunity in Nepal for conflict-era crimes

In May 2006, a report published by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed the shocking regime of incommunicado detention and torture at Maharajgunj barracks carried out by members of the Bhairabnath Battalion of the Royal Nepalese Army. 

The case of Himal Sharma is the fourth individual communication lodged by TRIAL concerning victims forcibly disappeared at Maharajgunj Barracks. 

For Philip Grant, Director of the Geneva-based organisation representing Himal Sharma before the UN Human Rights Committee: « No credible or effective investigation has been carried out into those responsible for Himal Sharma's arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture. Rather, Nepal has taken step after step to entrench impunity and to shield perpetrators from justice."

The UN Human Rights Committee is asked to make a finding concerning the serious human rights violations experienced by Himal Sharma and his wife and to request Nepal to open a prompt, thorough and independent investigation into the crimes alleged and prosecute and sanction the perpetrators, according to the petition lodged by TRIAL today. 

"This case also asks for the Human Rights Committee to call for the removal of the amnesty provision in the ordinance establishing the Commission for Investigation into Disappeared Persons, Truth and Reconciliation adopted in March 2013," added Philip Grant. "For too long, justice has been delayed and denied – and now it might be put out of reach to victims like Himal Sharma altogether if perpetrators are granted amnesty contrary to international law."

For more information

Daniele Perissi, Legal Advisor, daniele.perissi(at)trial-ch.org+41 22 321 61 10 (French / English)

How a new app delivers school performance data to the public in Kenya

by Maite Fernandez

For parents in Kenya, getting a full and detailed picture of how well their child's school performs is something new.

Students there take standardized exams at the end of primary and secondary school. The results are big news in the country, but the press coverage usually focuses on just a part of the story, such as which schools are top performers and how much they improved, said Muchiri Nyaggah, a developer and a fellow for Code4Kenya.

Now starting its second year, the Code4Kenya project embedded four developers in media and civil society organizations to work toward making open data available to the public.

Nyaggah was embedded with Twaweza, a civil society organization that aims to bring lasting change to East Africa. Twaweza, whose name means "we can make it happen" in Swahili, wanted to make public information such as school performance data easily available to citizens.

How? By creating an app called Find My School. Still in beta, this application allows users to search for schools by location, name and exam scores. "If the performance [of a school] has been declining, it gives you a report card that you can actually walk into the next PTA meeting with and ask questions," Nyaggah said. "The tool empowers parents to be actively involved in the running of the school."

The team faced a few roadblocks on the way to launching the app. Although part of the data was available in the new Kenya Open Data portal, the team realized it needed the original data set for this project. They asked for help from other organizations, which shared data they had already obtained. This allowed Find My School to launch with two years of data for primary schools.

After submitting a public information request and waiting months for government bureaucrats to release it, the team recently obtained the whole data set. That means the next iteration of the app will include seven years of data for primary and secondary schools.

Nyaggah was delighted to see the reaction of the first parents to use the app. "They didn't think the information was available, so they were pretty surprised," he said.

The Code4Kenya program, which is managed by the Open Institute and funded by the World Bank and the African Media Initiative, will run for the coming year. Nyaggah will also help bring it to other African countries by serving as lead fellow for Code4Africa.

Although Kenya is experiencing a tech boom and the Kenyan government has taken steps toward greater transparency, such as launching the Kenya Open Data Initiative, Nyaggah says there's still a lot to be done before citizens have access to the information they need.

The government has been proactively releasing data to the public, but as Nyaggah found, it is sometimes in a format or with licensing that makes it difficult to repurpose, reuse and redistribute.

But to detractors who think the open data initiative in Kenya has failed, Nyaggah says it's still in the early stages.

"The lessons that are being learned in the Kenyan context are going to be invaluable to other African countries," he said.

Check out Code4Kenya and the work of its other fellows here.

(Article originally published at: http://ijnet.org/blog/how-new-app-delivers-school-performance-data-public-kenya)

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Afton
Tiara
KrisAnne
Alanna
Elin
Tonia
Monica
Dolly
Gia
Gianna
Olga
Helga
Henrietta
Doris
Seraphina
Kristin
Karen
Haven
Moroccan
Minka
Gisele
Alessandra
Mirabella
Meryl
Leila
Joanna
Betty
Helen
Helena
Nell
Georgia
Georgie
Billie
Geraldine
Aretha
Yvonne
Yvette
Ursula
Wynonna
Wanda
Kirstie
Bea
Bree
Farrah
Judith
June
July
April
Phylicia
Irene
Ilene
Marcia
Marcy
Roxanna
Rockelle
Paula
Pamela
Pam
Karina
Katrina
Noelle
Vanessa
Deanna
Paxton
Starr
Gigi
Ireland

Boys
Tyler
Christopher
John
Jonny
Jonathan
James
Jameson
Jordan
Spencer
Flyn
Finn
Finnegan
Finley
Dylan
David
Dave
Daniel
Danny
Dan
George
Henry
Harry
Harrison
Nelson
Michael
Mike
Mason
Mitchell
Mitch
Mickey
Jason
Jace
Timothy
Tim
Timmy
Troy
Trey
Caleb
Nathan
Nathaniel
Nate
Hunter
Allen
Joseph
Richard
Joe
Rick
Jeffery
Jeff
Nicholas
Nick
William
Will
Liam
Andrew
Andy
Drew
Logan
Leanard
Lenny
Sheldon
Simon
Owen
Harlow
Maddox
Matthew
Pax
Matt
Matthias
Matteo
Jaiden
Haiden
Kaden
Braiden
Samuel
Sammy
Sam
Gabriel
Gabe
Austin
Isaac
Donavan
Isaiah
Dakota
Devin
Harley
Harvey
Ezra
Kenton
Kent
Ken
Corbin
Carter
Parker
Preston
Nolan
Carson
Kyle
Robert
Bobby
Bob
Max
Maxwell
Gary
Sean
Seth
Wayne
Wyatt
Wesley
Ronald
Ron
Bradley
Brad
Lucas
Luca
Luke
Brian
Benjamin
Benny
Ben
Bill
Billy
Bernard
Elliot
Cameron
Reese
Riley
Keaton
Blake
Blaine
Ashton
Shane
Chase
Chandler
Brogan
Chance
Tanner
Brett
Scott
Lane
Rowan
Cory
Micah
Reef
Rory
Remy
Ellis
Noah
Tony
Soloman
Jesse
Russel
Kevin
Dominic
Dom
Thomas
Tom
Tommy
Kellan
Jimmy
Jim
Jonah
Josiah
Chris
Monroe
Kingston
Derek
Casper
Ashton
Asher
Steven
Steve
Stevie
Garret
Brady
Brody
Arnold
Abraham
Abe
Abram
Jamie
Eric
Ian
Brandon
Ethan
Charlie
Charles
Don
Joshua
Josh
Grey
Bleu
Frank
Fritz
Neil
Bruno
Joey
Dwayne
Stanley
Stan
Roger
Girls:
Ada 
Adelaide *
Adeline *
Agatha 
Althea 
Amelia *
Annabelle 
Arabella 
Athalie 
Augusta 
Aurelia 
Beatrice 
Bertha 
Belle 
Beulah 
Camille * 
Cecilia *
Cecily 
Celeste 
Charlotte *
Clara * 
Clarinda *
Clarissa *
Claudia *
Clementine 
Constance 
Cordelia 
Corinne 
Christabel 
Cynthia 
Daphne *
Delia 
Dolores 
Dorothy 
Edith 
Eleanor 
Elise *
Eliza *
Ellen 
Elnora 
Eloise 
Elsa 
Elspeth 
Emmeline *
Erma 
Ernestine 
Esme 
Estelle 
Ethel 
Etta 
Eudora 
Eugenia 
Evangeline 
Felicity *
Francine 
Frances 
Genevieve 
Georgia *
Georgiana 
Gillian *
Gladys 
Gwendolyn 
Harriet 
Hazel 
Helen 
Henrietta 
Hester 
Ida 
Iris *
Isadora 
Jemima 
Josephine 
Judith 
Lavinia 
Leona 
Leonora 
Lila 
Lisette 
Louisa 
Loretta 
Lucia 
Lucinda 
Lucretia 
Lydia *
Mabel 
Marion 
Martha *
Matilda 
Mavis 
Melinda 
Mena 
Meredith *
Millicent 
Miriam 
Myra 
Myrna 
Myrtle 
Nadine 
Naomi 
Octavia 
Opal 
Pearl 
Phoebe 
Priscilla 
Prudence 
Ramona 
Regina 
Roberta 
Rosalind 
Rosemary 
Ruth 
Simone 
Sonya 
Stella 
Susannah 
Sylvia *
Theodora 
Theodosia 
Ursula 
Vada 
Viola *
Violet *
Virginia 
Vivian 
Wilhelmina 
Willa 
Winifred 
Zella

Boys: 
Abraham 
Abram 
Alastair 
Albert 
Arthur 
Bertrand 
Braxton 
Bruce 
Byron 
Cecil 
Cedric 
Chester 
Clark 
Clement 
Clifford 
Conrad 
Cyrus 
Darius *
Dexter 
Dorian 
Edger * 
Edmund 
Edwin *
Elias 
Elliot 
Emmett 
Eugene 
Evander 
Ezra 
Fabian 
Felix 
Franklin 
Frederick 
Gilbert 
Graham 
Griffin *
Harvey 
Hector *
Herbert 
Hirum 
Hugh 
Ira 
Jarvis 
Jasper *
Jonas 
Julian 
Lance 
Laurence 
Leander 
Lemuel 
Leo 
Martin *
Miles *
Milton 
Neville 
Niles 
Oliver 
Percival 
Rueben 
Russell 
Sheldon 
Sherman 
Silas 
Stuart 
Thaddeus 
Theodore 
Tobias 
Vincent *
Warren 
Willis 
Wilmur
Girl names:

Alice
Anna
Anne
Beatrice
Caroline
Charlotte
Claire
Diana
Edith
Eleanor
Eliza
Elizabeth
Emily
Emma
Eve
Faith
Florence
Frances
Grace
Helen
Irene
Jane
Jean
Jill
Judith
Julia
Kate
Katherine
Laura
Louisa
Lucy
Madeline
Margaret
Maria
Marian
Martha
Mary
Olivia
Pamela
Patricia
Rachel
Rebecca
Rose
Ruth
Sally
Sarah
Sophia
Susannah
Victoria
Virginia


Boy names:


Adam
Alexander
Andrew
Anthony
Arthur
Benjamin
Charles
Christopher
Daniel
David
Edward
Francis
Frank
Frederick
George
Harry
Henry
Hugh
Jack
Jacob
James
John
Jonathan
Joseph
Julian
Leo
Louis
Luke
Mark
Martin
Matthew
Michael
Nathan
Nathaniel
Nicholas
Patrick
Paul
Peter
Philip
Raymond
Richard
Robert
Samuel
Simon
Stephen
Theodore
Thomas
Timothy
Victor
Vincent
Walter
William
Zachary
Francine
Nadine
Sylvia
Sarah
Niles
Maxwell
Brighton
Grace
Margaret
Maggie
Chastity
Claire
Clara
Lara
Laura
Lauren
Robin
Raven
Kimberly
Chloe
Courtney
Christopher
Kristen
Caitlin
Katherine
Jasmine
Yasmine
Emma
Emily
Emmeline
Adeline
Mary
Maria
Mariah
Maril;yn
Carolyn
Caroline
Madeleine
Renee
Rose
Rosa
Rosalina
Rosaline
Rosln
Rosalin
Rosette
Rosetta
Rosalie
Rosalia
CHelsea
Dominique
Heather
Lucyucille
Paige
Adam
Evan
Mark
Matthew
John
Camilla
Leo
Diana
Diane
Anna
Annie
Anne
Alexandra
Alexandria
Andrea
Elaine
Faith
Faye
Hope
Desint
yCharity
Hermione
Harmony
Ursula
Phoebe
Rachel
Monica
Monique
Quinn
Zoe
Ellen
Eleanor
Nora
Sandra
Valerie
Sheila
Esther
Eden
Olive
Magda
Marcheline
Vivienne
Bridget
Bertha
Sadie
Stella
Thelma
Ruby
Evangeline
Evanna
Ivy
Iris
Chandler
Miles
Lenny
Marcus
Eddie
Edward
Eduardo
Edwin
Edmond
Peter
Rosy
Olivia
Odette
Druella
Priscilla
Pansy
Victoria
Amy
Amanda
Mandy
Azalea
Leah
Leanna
Leanne
Katie
Angelina
Alicia
Felicia
Gemma
Felicity
Pippa
Penelope
Penny
Ellie
Ella
Lily
Lillian
Lillianna
Julia
Julie
Julienne
Wedny
Guinevere
Genevieve
Ginny
Virginia
Vinny
Isabella
Bella
Jasper
Cale
Claeb
Nicole
Jennifer
mina
Lina
Marlene
Elena
Brenda
Gary
Barry
Larry
Harry
Drake
Raymond
Ashton
Asher
Ace
Nia
Mia
Lia
Tia
Gia
Aaliyah
Jade
Jayden
Hayden
Larissa
Michelle
Wynona
Clarisse
Sarabeth
Annabelle
Glinda
Lynn
Violetta
Brady
Bruce
Bryce
Yvonne
Bernard
Nerissa
Sinead
Lizabeth
Lee
Jordan
Danielle
Nellie
Guiliana
Selma
Selene
Helena
Harvey
Hester
Hepzibah
Etienne
April
May
June
Sophia
Sienna
Amber
Jesse
Opal
May
Maia
Paris
Patricia
Tracey
Tabitha
Brielle
Gabriella
Abigail
Chester
Paula
Paulina
Lyra
Viveca
Vienna
Olive
Ian
Thomas
Benjamin
James
Patrick
Avis
Robin
Marina
Raven
Marisol
Marvin
Lorenzo
Alexis
Allison
Angelina
Anna
Amber
Augusta
Beatrice
Britney
Barbra
Caroline
Charlotte
Claire
Diana
Danielle
Edith
Eleanor
Eliza
Elizabeth
Emily
Emma
Eve
Faith
Florence
Frances
Grace
Gabrielle
Helen
Heather
Irene
Ivy
Isabella
Imogen
Jane
Jennifer
Jessica
Jean
Jill
Judith
Julia
Kathleen 
Katherine
Laura
Louise
Lucy
Madeline
Margaret
Maria
Mariah
Marian
Martha
Mary
Nicole
Natalia
Naomi
Olivia
Paige
Pamela
Patricia
Quinn
Rachel
Rebecca
Rose
Ruth
Sally
Sarah
Sophia
Susanna
Tiffany
Victoria
Virginia
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