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ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine November 21, 2008

Khudari: Israel declares war on Palestinian children

Chairman of the Gaza-based Popular Committee Against the Siege MP Jamal Al-Khudari has asserted that the Israeli siege on Gaza Strip had killed more than 100 Palestinian children amidst unexplainable
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine November 21, 2008

UN Humanitarian Affairs official slams Gaza blockade, calls victims hostages

United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on Wednesday slammed the continued Israeli closure of the Gaza border-crossings and described the situation as “desperate” and “unacceptable.”
ActivitesHuman RightsIslamic Issues November 21, 2008

Summary of Salafist web sites – October-November

Salafist websites persist in their acute verbal offensive against Hezbollah, Iran and the Shi’i generally - but now with greater ferocity:
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine November 21, 2008

Little shop of horrors

I once asked one of my Palestinian friends what he thought the United States should do to help the peoples of the Middle East. He was incredulous: “Haven’t you done
Human Rights November 21, 2008

First Human Rights Festival In The Arab World

The American Islamic Congress will launch the first festival on human rights in the Arab World from November 23- 27 in its Cairo bureau, under the theme "Human Dignity."
ActivitesHuman RightsMB VS. Qaeda November 21, 2008

Zawahri’s Statements Are Racial and Contradict Islam, Says Analyst

In her statements to Ikhwanweb, Manar El-Shurbagi (professor of Political Sciences at the American University in Cairo and expert of the American affairs) condemned statements made by Ayman Al-Zawahri (second-in-command
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine November 20, 2008

Shameless in London, obscene in Israel, stupid in Ramallah

The decision by the Buckingham palace to bestow an honorary knighthood on Israeli President Shimon Peres should be viewed as a blatant disregard for propriety and moral conduct by Queen
ActivitesHuman Rights November 20, 2008

Begging Your Pardon

Ibrahim Eissa remains a free man, if not exactly innocent in the eyes of the law. A presidential pardon issued October 6 meant the controversial editor in chief of independent
ActivitesHuman RightsWomen November 20, 2008

An Equal Stage

The intricacies of democracy are a mystery, at least for many of the country’s rural poor — and especially for the politically and economically disenfranchised women of the agricultural heartlands
ActivitesHuman RightsWorkers November 20, 2008

Voices of the Street

By all indications, this year has been the spring, summer, fall and winter of discontent. Public frustration has been building over stagnating wages and rising prices, sexual harassment and reports