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Keep Reading »March Madness: Theirs and Ours
March Madness: Theirs and Ours [The following Month in Review on Washington's Wars and Occupations was written by Michael Reagan and published on 31 March 2013 in War Times.] It's March and despite what you read on the sports pages, the real madness in the country isn't on the basketball court. It's on the streets of New York, where police murder another Black teenager. It's in Steubenville, Ohio, where a teenage girl is raped by high school athletes ...
Keep Reading »Another Al Islah Member Disappeared as the “UAE94” Trial Continues
[The following report on the disappearance of Emirati Al Islah movement member Abdulwahed Al Shuhi appeared on Al Karama website on 22 April 2013.] On 26 March 2013—the day of the fifth hearing of the “UAE94”—Abdulwahed Al Shuhi, a member of the Al Islah movement, was arrested at his office in Dubai by police officers. One month later, his whereabouts remain unknown. His story recalls the cases of other Al Islah activists who are not amongst the “UAE94” but who have been ...
Keep Reading »Bahrain Tells UN Torture Expert to Postpone Visit—Again
![[UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Washington DC, 15 December 2010. Image from Flickr/OEA-OAS.]](/content_images/3/sm_5264290135_5f56884592_z.jpg "[UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Washington DC, 15 December 2010. Image from Flickr/OEA-OAS.]")
[The following post was written by Fahad Desmukh for Bahrain Watch on 23 April 2013.] For the second consecutive time, the Bahraini government has told the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to delay his planned visit to Bahrain. A statement on the state-run news agency yesterday said that Bahrain’s Minister for Human Rights delivered an official letter to Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez “outlining reasons for the request to postpone the visit." However, those reasons ...
Keep Reading »Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 17 April 2013.] Trial by Error: Justice in Post-Qadhafi Libya Executive Summary There are many necessary cures to Libya’s pervasive insecurity, but few more urgent than repairing its judicial system. Qadhafi-era victims, distrusting an apparatus they view as a relic, take matters in their hands; some armed groups, sceptical of the state’s ability to carry out justice, arbitrarily detain, ...
Keep Reading »Call for Papers -- On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (30 May Abstract Deadline)
On Demand and Relevance: Transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa Guest Editors: Ebony Coletu (American University in Cairo) and Ira Dworkin (American University in Cairo) This special forum invites proposals on transnational American Studies in the Middle East and North Africa as a way to prompt reflection on the purposes and challenges of invoking the “transnational” in American Studies from a geopolitical center that has become the object of ...
Keep Reading »A Who's Who of Fighters in Gaza
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[The following report was issued by IRIN , a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, on 15 April 2013.] This month, tensions have escalated in Gaza following the first Israeli air strikes since a ceasefire was signed in November 2012. Despite the November ceasefire, which ended eight days of sustained conflict, the past month has seen both rocket fire aimed at Israel by Gazan armed groups and incursions by Israeli tanks into Gazan ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (April 20)
[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon American Near East Refugee Aid reports on the state of Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon after having fled Syria, many of whom suffer from lack of employment, hunger, and poor housing conditions. Open Letter to Formula One Racers on Human Rights Abuses in Bahrain A group of human ...
Keep Reading »Bahrain: Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality
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[The following report was issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 8 April 2013.] Bahrain: Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality Introduction On 16 March 2011, approximately half an hour after the attack on the Pearl Square, the military and security forces besieged the Salmaniya Medical Complex and allowed no one to enter or leave the premises. Shortly afterwards, they commenced arresting wounded protesters inside the hospital; ...
Keep Reading »The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment
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[The following report was issued by the The Constitution Project on 16 April 2013.] The Report of the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment Statement of the Task Force This report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment is the result of almost two years of intensive study, investigation and deliberation. The project was undertaken with the belief that it was important to provide an accurate ...
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