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Report of the Independent Civil Society Fact-Finding Mission to Libya
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[The following is the latest from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights on Libya.] Report of the Independent Civil Society Fact-Finding Mission to Libya Introduction The Independent Civil Society Mission to Libya was established by the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), in cooperation with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), who provided additional expertise and professional experience. The International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) subsequently joined the mission, providing further international expertise and insight. The Mission was established in response to allegations of widespread violations of international law committed in ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: Israel's New Detention Law Violates Rights of Asylum-Seekers
![[Protest against migrant detention facilities. Image from amnesty.org]](/content_images/3/sm_israel-migrant-demo-620alessandroDiMaiodtx.jpg "[Protest against migrant detention facilities. Image from amnesty.org]")
[The following press release was issued by Amnesty International on 11 January 2012.] A new Israeli law allowing for automatic and lengthy detention of asylum-seekers is an affront to international law, Amnesty International said today. Early on Tuesday the Israeli parliament passed the “Prevention of Infiltration Law”, which mandates the automatic detention of anyone, including asylum-seekers, who enters Israel without permission. It is aimed at those entering via the Egyptian border. The law allows for all such detainees to be held without charge or trial for three or more years. People from countries considered “hostile” to Israel, including ...
Keep Reading »خلية تسفيكاو وسياسة غض النظر عن النازيين الجدد
![[إحدى مظاهرات النازيين الجدد. المصدر رويترز]](/content_images/3/sm_DortmundReuters.jpg "[إحدى مظاهرات النازيين الجدد. المصدر رويترز]")
بعد مرور شهرين على فضيحة خلية النازيين الجدد في المانيا والتي عرفت بإسم خلية ”تسفيكاو“ وتزايد الشكوك حول تعاون عاملين في جهاز المخابرات مع أعضاء الخلية وغض النظر عن مرتكبي الجرائم، تطفو على السطح الكثير من الأسئلة حول مدى ”يمينية“ مجتمع الغالبية الألماني وعلاقته ”بالآخرالأجنبي،“ العربي أو المسلم. وهل يعني نبذ غالبية الألمان للتطرف اليميني في بلادهم، أن النزعات اليمينية والفكر الإقصائي هما الإستثناء أم أن هذه أعراض لمشكلة أعمق وأكثر تجذراً؟ وهل يقتصر تأثير اليمين المتطرف على شباب عاطلين عن العمل في مناطق المانيا الشرقية سابقاً، كما يرى البعض؟ وهل يعني تعامل الكثير من وسائل الإعلام الألمانية مع الموضوع بتفصيل وكشفها وتوجيهها الإنتقاد لمسؤولين بالأجهزة الألمانية، أن الإعلام ...
Keep Reading »29 December 2008: Balousha Family
![[Anwar Balousha and son Muhammed. Image from PCHR.]](/content_images/3/sm_29-12-n.jpg "[Anwar Balousha and son Muhammed. Image from PCHR.]")
[The following is narrative three, within a series of twenty-three narratives, to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “I miss them all the time; sometimes I even go to look for one of them in the house in the split second before I remember they were killed.” At around midnight on 29 December 2008 an Israeli aircraft attacked the Imad Akel Mosque, situated in Jabaliya refugee camp. The attack destroyed the home of Anwar and Samira Balousha, which was situated just ...
Keep Reading »27 December 2008: The Al Ashi Family
![[Khawla and Faris Al Ashi photographed next to the picture of their deceased father. Photo Credit: PCHR.]](/content_images/3/sm_AshiFamily.jpg "[Khawla and Faris Al Ashi photographed next to the picture of their deceased father. Photo Credit: PCHR.]")
[The following is the first narrative within a series of twenty-three narratives to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “For the upcoming anniversary of the war, me and other women who lost husbands in the attack plan to give gifts to orphans who lost their fathers during the war. The gifts will be inscribed with the words “On this day you are the beloved ones of your mother.” We want children to remember they still have their mothers and they will always ...
Keep Reading »Global Dimensions of the Arab Spring and the Potential for Anti-Hegemonic Politics
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I remember a journalist asking a few weeks ago: has the world become a better place because of the Arab spring? I think what he meant was: are we living today in a better world because the Arab peoples have gotten rid of, or are getting rid of, some of the worst authoritarian leaders in the world? The question implicitly referred to the matter of democratization. Of course, the issue of democratization has dominated the study of political change in the Arab world over the last twenty years. However, a better question to ask would be: can the world become a better place because of the Arab uprisings? There is a slight nuance between these questions. The first question ...
Keep Reading »Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism
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It is difficult to know whether to laugh or cry at the news that the United States has come out as the global defender of LGBTQ rights. This confusion is not only due to the United States' own record on gay rights, but perhaps more importantly, it is due to the United States' role as the premier imperial power in the world today. After all, while Secretary of State Clinton acknowledged that the United States has an imperfect record of defending and legislating gay rights domestically, she was curiously silent about how and why, exactly, the United States would monitor and regulate LGBTQ rights internationally. Would the American army, for example, start ...
Keep Reading »The Unknown Hell of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
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For the past sixty-three years, millions of Palestinians have lived as refugees in areas of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and in surrounding countries. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) describes their plight as “by far the most protracted and largest of all refugee problems in the world today." Three-quarters of all eleven million Palestinians throughout the world are refugees, though their plight is often ignored. Many key issues in the Middle East, political and humanitarian, arose as a consequence of Israel’s denial of the right of refugees to return to their land. Multiple international treaties and conventions recognize the ...
Keep Reading »ACLU to Congress: Stop Targeting American Muslims and Protect Muslim Service Members
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[The following statement was recently issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 7 December, 2011.] Congress: Stop Targeting American Muslims and Protect Muslim Service Members Today the Senate and House Homeland Security Committees will hold a hearing on “Homegrown Terrorism: The Threat to Military Communities Inside the United States.” In their announcement of the hearing, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) once again singled out Islam and American Muslim communities as the focus of their terrorism inquiry to the detriment of U.S. counterterrorism efforts and of American Muslims serving their country. Rep. King and Sen. Lieberman ...
Keep Reading »Decolonizing Islamophobia in France: An Interview with Houria Bouteldja
![[Houria Bouteldja. Photo credit Tala Khanmalek.]](/content_images/3/sm_Interview.jpg "[Houria Bouteldja. Photo credit Tala Khanmalek.]")
I met Houria Bouteldja in Paris, France at the Institut du Monde Arabe, a building whose architectural majesty overcasts those around it, including the Notre Dame. Although it was built to raise cultural awareness (and in accordance with eighteen Arab countries), Houria, spokeswoman of Les Indigènes de la République, reminds me that it signifies much more. Like the country’s shifting national identity, the building is itself in motion, its very walls are apertures that open and close every hour to control light. Founded in 2005 and now a political party as well (Parti Des Indigènes de la République), Les Indigènes de la République is foremost an antiracist organization ...
Keep Reading »Three Versions of Copt
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Not quite a day later, a secular Muslim employee at one of Egypt’s largest media institutions begins to unpack the events of 9 October at his office, not far from the site of blood in downtown Cairo -I- Yesterday evening, while I sat at this desk dreaming up cultural content for the pages I am in charge of, Twitter began turning up news of protesters being fired at and pelted with stones – but not run over by combat armored vehicles, not beaten repeatedly after they were dead, nor thrown into the Nile as bloodied corpses. Not yet. The location was outside the Radio and Television Union Building, along a stretch of the Nile known as Maspero. This fact (of protesters ...
Keep Reading »Statement by Comrades from Cairo in Response to OWS Proposal to Send Election Monitors
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[The following statement was issued by Comrades from Cairo on 13 November 2011.] To our kindred occupiers in Zuccotti park, When we called out to you, requesting you join us on 12 November in defending our revolution and in our campaign against the military trial of civilians in Egypt, your solidarity—pictures from marches, videos, and statements of support—added to our strength. However, we recently received news that your General Assembly passed a proposal authorizing $29,000 dollars to send twenty of your number to Egypt as election monitors. Truth be told, the news rather shocked us; we spent the better part of the day simply trying to figure out who could have ...
Keep Reading »Alleged Investigation: The Failure of Investigations into Offenses Committed by IDF Soldiers Against Palestinians
[The following is the latest from Yesh Din on investigations into IDF offenses against Palestinians.] Alleged Investigation: The Failure of Investigations into Offenses Committed by IDF Soldiers Against Palestinians PRINCIPAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Only three and half percent of complaints received by the Military Police Criminal Investigations Unit (MPCID) and the Military Advocate General’s Corps (MAGC) of criminal offenses allegedly committed by soldiers against Palestinian ...
Keep Reading »Sexual Violence Is A Crime, Sometimes
I am against rape. I don't think this is a very controversial position to take. People should not be forced physically or coerced emotionally into having sex. I don't care what the gender makeup of the people in question are, and I don't care what their relationship is. Not everyone agrees with this position. In many countries, sexual consent is an implied provision of a marriage contract. The idea is that when two people get married, they are granted rights to each other's bodies and their resources ...
Keep Reading »"Operational Accidents": On the Turkish State and Kurdish Deaths
Reading the press release issued by the Turkish Armed Forces on Thursday, 29 December 2011, it is impossible to get the sense that during the previous night, its warplanes struck and killed thirty-five citizens of Turkey, many of them high school students and all of them civilians. When referring to the young Kurdish villagers it killed, the Turkish Armed Forces merely noted that it received drone-generated intelligence showing a group of people advancing along Turkey’s southeastern border with Iraq. The ...
Keep Reading »28 December 2008: The Abu Taima Family
[The following is narrative two, within a series of twenty-three narratives to mark the third anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead." A new post will be released each day, marking the incident that happened on the same date three years ago. The narratives are developed by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.] “Living under occupation means that whatever hopes we have, it will fall apart one day. For example, you bring up your child and put all of your hopes in him or her, but then they come ...
Keep Reading »Letter from Istanbul Bakirkoy Women's Prison
[An October 2011 report on the so-called “KCK operations,” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years, noted that the Erdoğan 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. Since 2009, as many as 7748 people have been taken under custody on the alleged grounds that they are associated with the KCK—an organization ...
Keep Reading »Three Killed During Failed Attempt to Clear Tahrir Square
Two protesters shot dead by security forces during attack on Tahrir Square, one dies in detention. Military police and Central Security Forces (CSF) killed three protestors in a failed attempt to clear protesters from Tahrir Square on Sunday night. Protesters accused security forces of using sewage water mixed with kerosene gas during the attack. Two protesters were shot dead by security forces. It is unclear precisely who fired the fatal bullets but video taken from the scene shows both military ...
Keep Reading »بانتظار علياء
[المقال نشر على موقع جدلية باللغة الإنجليزية وترجمه إلى العربية يوسف حداد] من السهل مشاهدة صور لنساء عاريات أينما نظرنا من حولنا. فصورهن موجودة في كل مكان على مواقع الإنترنت وفي المعارض الفنية وعلى شاشات التلفزة وفي الأفلام السينمائية طبعاً. أما صور النساء ”شبه العاريات“ فهي الأكثر رواجاً. إذ نراها تنتشر على لوحات الإعلانات، في الأغاني المصورة، وفي الدعايات التلفزيونية، حيث تدعونا بجسدها وبنظرات "الإغراء" لشراء المزيد والمزيد. إن صور المرأة العارية و "شبه العارية" تنتشر في شتى ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security
[The following is the latest from Amnesty International on Saudi Arabia.] Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security “I am here to say we need democracy. We need freedom. We need to speak freely. We need no one to stop us from expressing our opinions.” -Khaled al-Johani speaking to reporters at a protest where no one but he turned up on 11 March 2011 and was arrested shortly after. Since March 2011 the Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a new wave of repression in the name of security. ...
Keep Reading »The New Kurdish Movie
Turkey’s decades-old “Kurdish Question” has recently changed its trajectory. There is a new movie playing in town. The Turkish state is determined to follow a new kind of politics in order to resolve the issues that have been haunting Turkish-Kurdish relations for almost a century. In this commentary, I would like to describe what this new politics looks like. Let us begin with the question, Why did Prime Minister Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) choose a new and contentious political path? ...
Keep Reading »Honored to be a "Freedom Rider"
I was honored to be a freedom rider and it was a team effort at its best (those who rode and the many who worked behind the scenes). Two other Palestinians were also arrested with us. They were there as a reporters/observers, not participants. All eight of us were eventually released pending potential trials. Fajr kindly gave us a ride to the edge of Beit Sahour from Ramallah (we were released at Qalandia checkpoint), where my wife met us with my car. She and I then gave Nadim and Badi' a ride to Hebron. ...
Keep Reading »Press Release by South African Union on Russell Tribunal on Palestine
[The following press release was issued by the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) on 7 November, 2011. It was recently published on samwu.org.za] Jacob Zuma and Government must implement recommendations made by Russell Tribunal SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT 07 November 2011 The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) welcomes the findings of the international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience, The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP). This important Tribunal will form a ...
Keep Reading »Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim: The Involvement of Medical Professionals in Torture and Ill-Treatment in Israel
[The following is the latest from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR) on medical professionals' involvement in mistreatment in Israel.] Medical Professionals and Torture? When we think of doctors, it is often the Hippocratic Oath and its mythical status that comes to mind. We believe that doctors help the sick, standing beside them in times of troubles at any hour of the day or night, remaining loyal to those under their care, ...
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