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Human RightsIraq January 27, 2008

Iraq: The Forever Treaty

With the clock ticking on our “commitments” in Iraq — the international mandate expires in less than a year — the Bush administration is left in an interesting position.
ActivitesHuman RightsPalestine January 27, 2008

Popular conference deplores UN failure to condemn Israeli siege on Gaza

The popular conference to confront the siege held Saturday strongly denounced the UN for failing to condemn the siege, starvation and slow killing practiced by Israel against the Palestinian people,
Eye on IOFHuman RightsPalestine January 27, 2008

IOA affirms continuation of Gaza blockade

The Israeli occupation authority announced on Sunday that the blockade on the Gaza Strip would continue through closure of all crossings surrounding it.
Human RightsIraq January 27, 2008

An unstable marriage

George Bush has done his critics a new favour. Just when the Iraq issue was in danger of receding from the increasingly frenetic US primary campaign, his effort to formalise
Human RightsReports January 27, 2008

Rights Report: 2007 a “Black Year” for Freedom of Expressions in Egypt

On Sunday, January 27, 11 am, at its headquarter in Maadi, the Arabic Network For Human Rights Information is holding a press conference to declare its first annual report about
Human RightsPalestine January 27, 2008

Worse Than a Crime

It Looked like the fall of the Berlin wall. And not only did it look like it. For a moment, the Rafah crossing was the Brandenburg Gate.
Palestine January 27, 2008

What is Mahmoud Abbas waiting for?

With the appalling death toll in Gaza, relentless assaults on the West Bank (in which negotiations chief Ahmed Qurei’s own bodyguard was killed), and Israel’s blatant settlement expansion, one must
Human RightsPalestine January 27, 2008

Mishaal asks Arab FMs to back Egyptian border opening

Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of Hamas Movement, has reached a number of Arab foreign ministers over the telephone prior to their Sunday meeting in Cairo urging them to
Human RightsPalestine January 27, 2008

Gaza scrambles for supplies as border forced open

Three kids, their mother and their aunt hurried towards the Salah al-Din gate in southern Gaza on Wednesday.The mother, in her early thirties, explained in a rush, "We are heading
Palestine January 27, 2008

Nunu: Abbas’s conditions for dialogue deepen rift, reflect bad intention

The PA caretaker government in Gaza on Saturday expressed regret over PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s rejection of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s invitation for Fatah-Hamas dialogue in Cairo.