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Joint PHROC Statement: UN Resolution on Settlements--Another Missed Opportunity
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[The following statement was issued on 25 March 2013 by the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council.] Occupied Ramallah, 25 March 2013 - On Friday, 22 March, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council) adopted a resolution, tabled by the State of Palestine, the Organisation of Islamic Conference, and the Arab Group, on the report of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied ...
Keep Reading »Human Rights Organizations Continue Efforts to Aid Families of the Disappeared in Algeria
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[The following statement was issued by Alkarama, the Collective of Families of Disappeared Persons in Algeria (CFDA), and TRIAL on 22 March 2013.] The United Nations Human Rights Committee will meet on Monday, 25 March 2013 in order to monitor the implementation of its decisions regarding cases of human rights violations. In preparation of this meeting, Alkarama, CFDA, and TRIAL wrote to the Committee denouncing the complete lack of implementation of sixteen decisions ...
Keep Reading »Urgent Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja's Life at Imminent Risk
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[The following is an urgent appeal that the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Issued on 24 March 2013.] Both Abdulhadi and his daughter Zainab Al-Khawaja were denied family visits again this weekend, prompting them to start a dry hunger strike today. Zainab Al-Khawaja was told by doctors that she is at risk of organ failure, cardiac arrest, or coma at any time. Her blood sugar has dropped to two on several occasions in the last two days. According to Dr. Fatima Haji, ...
Keep Reading »Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Fourth Report
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[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 9 March 2013. This is the fourth in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 1 February to 15 February 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on the General National Congress: Fourth Report Introduction The General National Conference (GNC) held five sessions during this period, the ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (March 23)
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] The Crime of Insulting the President, A Crime of an Authoritarian Regime The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information reports on the history of governmental violations of freedom of expression in Egypt. An Open Letter From Salman al-Odah Saudi sheikh and former political prisoner Salman al-Odah addresses the Saudi ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers -- A Hundred Years of Arab Nationalism: Critical Assessment and Future Perspectives (4 & 5 June, Paris)
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A Hundred Years of Arab Nationalism: Critical Assessment and Future Perspectives 4 & 5 June 2013 Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Paris In Commemoration of the Centenary of the first Arab Congress, Paris, 17-24 June, 1913The Arab Congress of 1913 (also known as the "Arab National Congress," the "First Arab Congress, and the "Arab-Syrian Congress") met in a hall of the French Geographical Society from June 18–23 in Paris.This ...
Keep Reading »Reporters Without Borders Enemies of Internet Report Features Iran, Bahrain, and Syria
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[The following report was issued by Reporters Without Borders on 11 March 2013.] The Enemies of Internet -- Special Edition: Surveillance Introduction: Era of the Digital Mercenaries “My computer was arrested before I was.” This perceptive comment was made by a Syrian activist who had been arrested and tortured by the Assad regime. Caught by means of online surveillance, Karim Taymour told a Bloomberg journalist that, during interrogation, he was ...
Keep Reading »Event -- Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years (29 March, Haverford College)
Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years 2013 Mellon Symposium Friday, 29 March 2013 Haverford College Convened by Zainab Saleh, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College This interdisciplinary symposium will be held on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq as a venue to examine multiple dimensions of the decade-long occupation. Despite the US Army's official withdrawal from the country, the US ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Members of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery to President Obama
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[The following English version of an open letter to President Obama was issued by the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery on 10 March 2013.] Dear Mr. President, In the name of the Protection Committee for Bedouin Communities in the Jerusalem Periphery we extend to you our warmest greetings. We write to welcome you to Palestine next week and also to seek your support as a matter of urgency due to the Government of Israeli's (GOI) ...
Keep Reading »Bahrain Press Association Condemns Attacks Against Journalists
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[The following statement was issued by the Bahrain Press Association on 13 March 2013.] Bahrain Press Association ("BPA"), the London-based association concerned with defending and addressing issues related to Bahraini media and press people, expresses its deep sorrow to the course of actions Bahrain has been witnessing since the awake of the 14 February Revolution as per the marginalization notion, intimidation of freedom of expression, and the on-going ...
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