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Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System
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[The following is the latest from the Applied Research Center (ARC) on the intersections of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system in the United States.] Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System Executive Summary “Shattered Familie,” A Report by The Applied Research Center (ARC), is the first national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system ...
Keep Reading »Turkey: Arrests Expose Flawed Justice System
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[The following statement is the latest from Human Rights Watch (HRW) on domestic developments in Turkey. It was released in both English and Turkish.] Turkey: Arrests Expose Flawed Justice System Academic, Publisher Held in Crackdown on Pro-Kurdish Party (Istanbul) – An Istanbul court’s decision on 1 November 2011 to imprison a publisher and a political science professor pending their trial on terrorism charges exposes the huge deficiencies of Turkey’s criminal justice ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Phyllis Bennis on UNESCO Vote and US Withdrawal of Funding
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This is an interview conducted with Phyllis Bennis on Tuesday, 1 November, in regards to the recent vote by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to admit Palestine as a full member, and the subsequent decision by the US government to withdraw its $60 million of annual funding (22% of UNESCO's budget). The interview addresses both the signficance of the vote and the logic behind the US response. It also highlights an important exchange during the ...
Keep Reading »LA Event -- Glenn Greenwald on How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
The UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) invite you to attend With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Glenn Greenwald Wednesday, 2 November 2011 10:00am to 11:30am UCLA School of Law Room 2326, Faculty Library In countless instances over recent ...
Keep Reading »A Message from Anonymous to Wall Street, New York, and the Protesters
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[The following text is from the video message below.] This is a message from anonymous to the people of New York City, Wall Street and members of the protest. We are crowding your streets, we are filling its veins. This might be painful, but you will not open your eyes so we have been forced to dilate them. This is your protest. Welcome your new neighbors, for they choose to sleep on the streets for you. They choose to open their mouths when you are too exhausted. They are ...
Keep Reading »Gilbert Achcar on "The Arabs and the Holocaust"
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The video below is from a book talk by Gilbert Achcar at the UC Berkeley's Center for Middle East Studies on 20 October 2011. He discusses his critically acclaimed book, The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. He covers Arab attitudes to Zionism, anti-Semitism, Nazism and the Holocaust from the aftermath of the First World War through the contemporary period.
Keep Reading »Urgent Appeal: Stop Arbitrary Detentions in Turkey
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The international public has so far been oblivious to the so-called “KCK operations” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years. Under the guise of “fighting terrorism,” the Erdogan government has been using the judiciary, the police, and the media to penalize all civic activism in support of rights demanded by Kurdish citizens in Turkey. The “KCK operations” in particular have been deployed to ...
Keep Reading »The Cost of Kill/Capture: Impact of the Night Raid Surge on Afghan Civilians
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[The following is the latest from Open Society Foundations' Regional Policy Initiative on Afghanistan and Pakistan on night raids in Afghanistan.] Executive Summary Nighttime kill and capture operations (“night raids”) by international military have been one of the most controversial tactics in Afghanistan. They are as valued by the international military as they are reviled by Afghan communities. Night raids have been associated with the ...
Keep Reading »Breaking Point? Yemen's Southern Question
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[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Yemen.] Executive Summary and Recommendations Ten months of popular protest spiked by periodic outbursts of violence have done little to clarify Yemen’s political future. Persistent street protests so far have failed to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh or bring about genuine institutional reform. The country is more deeply divided between pro- and anti-Saleh forces than ever, ...
Keep Reading »Kherrberr: The New Lebanese Media Monitor on Gender Discrimination
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Kherrberr is a media monitor that specializes in overseeing the different types of gender discrimination, including biases based on color, race, religion, appearance, sexual orientation, and social class. In Lebanon, women do not have the most basic rights. There is a continued absence of laws that protect them from family violence and they are barred from passing on their Lebanese nationality to their spouses and children. They also remain imprisoned in a regime of ...
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