Anti-Austerity Protests in Israel This may come as a surprise for those who thought that anger over austerity plans was a sentiment confined to Europe. However, in Israel public frustration over rising living costs has been growing for some time. Never before had so many demonstrators taken part in street protests like in 2011; with [...]
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Press Review: Arctic Ocean rapidly acidifying & Fighting desertification in the Sahel
Combating desertification in the Sahel is seen as a solution to the eradication poverty, hunger, and terrorism. [BBC] An Israeli airstrike near Damascus heightens fears that Syria’s civil war will expand outside its borders. [Washington Post] A former garment factory worker turn labor rights lawyer talks about the positive influence that multinational corporations and retailers [...]
MIDDLE-EAST NEWS ROUNDUP: Google & Palestine, Israel & Syria, Women’s Sport in Saudi Arabia
Google Recognises Palestine: If the twenty-first century truly is the century of the internet, it is no wonder that the recognition of Palestine by Google was accredited with considerable significance by the international media. This kind of evidence for the increasing interconnectedness between global politics and the online world is by no means a first. [...]
Signs of the NY Times: Syria, Syria, Syria. The End of Diplomacy? Fracking after all?
In an uncharacteristically blunt Op-Ed contribution, the U.N. under secretary general for Humanitarian affairs, the executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the executive director of the U.N. Children’s Fund and the director general of the World Health Organization are pleading for help of any kind to stop [...]
Signs of the NY Times: Inequality in Peru. Ivory horror. Education in Pakistan. Abuse in Sri Lanka. Obama in Israel.
Op-Ed Guest Columnist Marie Arana reminds us that there’s a dark side to the economic boom in Peru, perhaps the country least affected by the global financial crisis. Peru’s skyrocketing wealth is based around its gold mining industry; yet, as seems to be a recurring historical theme, the profits earned from this industry are concentrated [...]
Signs of the NY Times: Crowd-funding the future. Female farmers in crisis. Syrian refugees reach one million. End the Arab boycott of Israel.
Opinionator David Bornstein is touting a new strategy in the fight to solve global warming. As opposed to the most common approach – which is to attempt to scare people into consuming less, recycling and buying green by reminding us of all the horrible consequences that our grandchildren, children and even we will suffer if [...]
Israel secretly repatriated 1,000 to Sudan, without informing UN
‘The Haaretz’ reported on Feb 26, 2013: Though Israel claims the people’s return was voluntary, this claim was rejected by UNHCR, which says there is no ‘free will from inside a prison.’ Israel has “voluntarily” returned at least 1,000 people to Sudan, an enemy country that has vowed to punish any of its citizens who [...]
„The Law In These Parts“ – Ein Film über Unrecht in einem Rechtsstaat
Kann eine moderne Demokratie einem anderen Volk eine langjährige Besatzung aufzwingen und gleichzeitig seine demokratischen Werte bewahren? Im Jahr 1967 eroberte Israels Armee den Gazastreifen und das Westjordanland. Seitdem hat das Militär tausende Anweisungen und Gesetze erlassen, die nur in diesen Gebieten Gültigkeit besitzen. Es wurden Militärgerichte einberufen, die hunderttausende Palästinenser verurteilten und einer halben [...]
Press Review: 2012 worst year on record for journalists & The state of women’s rights in Afghanistan
As a reminder of China’s ongoing fight for freedom, the founder of the Human Rights Foundation reprints Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s court statement to mark the three year anniversary of his prison sentence. [Huffington Post] 2012 stands as the worst year on record for the number of journalists in prison around the world. Turkey is [...]
Palestine UN status upgrade should open door to justice
Palestine’s historic recognition as a non-member observer state of the United Nations brings with it obligations under international law, Amnesty International said today. The vote at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday was decided by 138 votes in favour, 41 abstentions, and 9 against. Palestine is in a position to ratify the [...]
Hours for Palestine
Update: The UN General Assembly has decided with a majority of 138 of 193 votes: From now on, Palestine holds a “non-member observer state” which means a huge step towards a stronger self-determination for Palestinians and another step towards a two-state solution. ***************************************************************************************************************************** In hours, the UN will face a historic vote on Palestinian statehood. While extremists in Israel [...]
Israel and Palestine: Two-state solution?
Signs of the NY Times: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland have co-written an opinion piece spelling out the now undeniable fact that the only way forward in the Middle East is a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. In particular, Carter and Brundtland are calling for U.N. member states to [...]
