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The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis
![[Tunisian Chamber of Deputies, meeting place of the NCA. Image by Coyau via Wikimedia Commons]](/content_images/3/sm_tunisia031613web.jpg "[Tunisian Chamber of Deputies, meeting place of the NCA. Image by Coyau via Wikimedia Commons]")
[The following report was issued by the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance on 26 February 2013.] The Tunisian Constituent Assembly's By-laws: A Brief Analysis Executive Summary In response to the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia is in the process of developing a new constitution. The institution charged with drafting this new constitution is the National Constituent Assembly (NCA). The functioning and processes of the NCA will directly affect the shape of the new constitution and, as a result, its response to the revolutionary demands and the democratic functioning of the state. This study describes and ...
Keep Reading »UNICEF Report: Children in Israeli Military Detention
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[The following report was issued by UNICEF on 6 March 2013.] Children in Israeli Military Detention: Observations and Recommendations Executive Summary All children in contact with judicial systems should be treated with dignity and respect at all times. For several years, national lawyers, human rights organizations, United Nations experts and treaty bodies have been publishing reports of illtreatment of children who come in contact with the Israeli military detention system. Following an increasing number of allegations of ill-treatment of children in military detention, UNICEF has conducted a review of practices related to children ...
Keep Reading »UK Spyware Targets Bahraini Business
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[This report was originally published by Bahrain Watch on 13 March 2013.] TOP BAHRAINI COMPANY INFECTED WITH GOVERNMENT SPYWARE SOLD BY UK FIRM IN APPARENT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED TARGETING Company Declines to be Identified, Citing Potential Reprisals [Manama] During the course of recent investigations, Bahrain Watch determined that a computer inside a top Bahraini company was infected with spyware operated by Bahrain’s government. The spyware, known as FinSpy, is sold exclusively to government law enforcement and intelligence agencies by UK firm Gamma International. The company believed that it would suffer reprisals if we identified it as a victim by name, or ...
Keep Reading »Eye on the Libyan General National Congress: Third Report
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[The following report was issued by Bokra Youth Organization and H2O Team on 28 February 2013. This is the third in a year-long series of reports covering the actions of Libya's General National Council. This issue focuses on the period from 15 January to 1 February 2013. Click here to access the previous report.] Eye on the General National Congress: The Third Report Introduction On Tuesday evening, 15 January 2013, Mr. Omar Hemedan, the official spokesperson for the General National Congress (GNC), held a weekly press conference to discuss the latest work and updates from the GNC in the past week. The following points came up: With regards to hearing ...
Keep Reading »Bosnia's Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
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[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 26 February 2013.] Bosnia's Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism Overview The Bosniak community is deeply frustrated with the dysfunctional government, flawed constitution and economic stagnation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as renewed Croat and Serb challenges to the state’s territorial integrity. The Islamic community has taken a leading role in channelling popular anger, filling a vacuum left by Bosniak political parties, whose leadership seems adrift. Political Islam is a novelty in Bosnia, and its rise is seen as threatening to secular parties and non-Muslims. On the margins of ...
Keep Reading »Petition: Stop the "Green Building" Draft Law in Lebanon
![[Building under reconstruction in Furn al-Hayek, Beirut, Lebanon in 8 June 2011. Image by Karan Jain via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_6073083696_fbdf35c343.jpg "[Building under reconstruction in Furn al-Hayek, Beirut, Lebanon in 8 June 2011. Image by Karan Jain via Flickr]")
For the past six months, the Lebanese government has been stalling in implementing the salary adjustment and wage scale for public employees it had approved in September 2012. The last few weeks have seen an increase in workers’ unions' organized strikes across Lebanese cities demanding the immediate application of the authorized salary increase (see Khaled Saghieh’s article in Jadaliyya for more analysis). The government claims it is still looking into sources of revenue to fund this adjustment. One of the potential sources is an increase in building exploitation factors (i.e., ratios that determine construction surfaces and heights on a lot) through a legal ...
Keep Reading »Reports Roundup (March 9)
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[The following list is a compilation of the reports, statements, and other materials featured on the Jadaliyya Reports Page this past week.] NGO Conference Calls for Regional Human Rights Reform The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights reports on the result of a February NGO seminar focused on strategy for human rights reform throughout the Arab world. Month-by-Month Summary of Developments in Syria (Updated) International Crisis Group issues a monthly "Crisis Watch" report on Syria. These briefs are compiled here, showing the progression of the Syrian conflict. Concern Over Arrest of Human Rights Defender Zainab Al-Khawaja Front Line ...
Keep Reading »On The Barring of International Observers from Trial Against UAE Activists
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[The following statement was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 3 March 2013.] Ninety-four peaceful activists are due to be brought before the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi tomorrow morning, Monday, 4 March 2013, on state security offences. Limited access to lawyers, withholding of evidence and details on the charges by the State Prosecution, no right to appeal the court's decision, detentions in undisclosed locations... before the trial even began, flagrant flaws in the "UAE 94" case have been reported, recalling the irregularities which marred the case of the "UAE 5" in 2011. The refusal to allow Ms Noemie Crotta from the Alkarama ...
Keep Reading »Announcing the Launch of the Arab American Studies Website
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The Arab American Studies Association (AASA) would like to announce the launch of the website www.arabamericanstudies.org. We invite those interested in Arab American studies to visit the website and learn more about AASA. Founded in 2012, AASA is a non-profit, nonpolitical, multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to the study of the history, culture, literature, art, music, politics, religion, and other aspects of Arab American experience. The Association aims to advance the field of Arab American studies and to stimulate research in diasporic, transnational, as well as Arab American experiences and cultural expressions. Through ...
Keep Reading »Open Letter from Family of Jailed Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammed Saba'na
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[The following update on the status of jailed Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Abdel Ghani Saba'na was issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists on 1 March 2013. Below the update is an open letter from Saba'na's family, published by Cartoon Movement on 25 February 2013.] Update on Status of Mohammed Abdel Ghani Saba'na A military court in the city of Ashkelon extended the detention of Mohammad Saba'aneh, a Palestinian cartoonist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida, on February 28, 2013, for a second time, according to news reports. His detention was extended for eight days, Al-Hayat al-Jadidareported citing the cartoonist's lawyer. Saba'aneh ...
Keep Reading »The Turkel Report: A Preliminary Analysis
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The Turkel Report, which includes important evidence and recommendations, may become a dead letter if the international community does not act to ensure that it contributes the pursuance of accountability vis-a-vis Israeli violations of international law and to justice for victims. On 6 February 2013, the Israeli government-appointed Turkel Committee published the second part of its report. The report examines whether Israeli investigations of claims of war crimes and breaches of international law conform to international law standards. The Committee affirms that it does. However, it also details no less than eighteen recommendations to improve Israel’s investigation ...
Keep Reading »Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Aid Cannot Be Co-Opted into Somalia Stabilization Program
![[Young displaced Somali girl living in Halabokhad settlement in Galkayo. Image by UNHRC/ACNUR Americas via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_Image-Somali_Displaced_Halabokhad_settlement_Galkayo-UNHCR_ACNUR_Americas-Flickr.jpg "[Young displaced Somali girl living in Halabokhad settlement in Galkayo. Image by UNHRC/ACNUR Americas via Flickr]")
[The following statement was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 28 February 2013.] Efforts underway at the United Nations to integrate humanitarian assistance into the international military campaign against opponents of Somalia’s government will further threaten the safe delivery of independent and impartial aid to Somalis struggling to survive ongoing war, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. The United Nations Security Council is currently deliberating the future structure of the UN’s mission in Somalia. Under discussion is the possible inclusion of humanitarian assistance ...
Keep Reading »Torture Accusations Hidden Behind Closed Doors in 'UAE 94' Trial
[This report was originally published by Alkarama on 13 March 2013.] UAE: Concerns for Safety of 'UAE 94' Confirmed as International Observers Prevented from Attending Second Hearing The first and second hearings in the trial of the UAE 94 were held on 4 and 11 March, respectively, with international observers prevented access. Reports from the trial have raised alarm bells that the UAE has still not respected the norms of a fair trial. The UAE should allow international legal experts to ...
Keep Reading »Self-Immolations Continue in Tunisia
On 12 March, Adel Khadri, a twenty-seven year old cigarette street vendor, set himself on fire on Tunis’ main street, Habib Bourguiba Avenue. According to eyewitnesses, Khadri shouted: “This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment,” before setting himself on fire. Khadri passed away early this morning at Ben Arous’ Burns Hospital. Collective blog Nawaat reports [fr]: Le jeune vendeur à la sauvette qui, désespéré par ses conditions de vie, s’était immolé, est décédé ...
Keep Reading »Long Sentences Imposed on Saudi Human Rights Activists
[This report was originally issued by Alkarama on 12 March 2013.] KSA: Two prominent human rights defenders sentenced to 10 and 11 years in prison after unfair trial The Saudi authorities should immediately release Mohammad Al Qahtani and Abdullah Al Hamid, two Saudi human rights defenders and co-founders of the Saudi Association for civil and political rights (ACPRA). The two men were sentenced last Saturday to ten and eleven years in prison for accusations including "breaking allegiance to the ...
Keep Reading »Saudi Arabia Imprisons Activists and Dissolves Prominent Rights Organization
[This report was originally published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 11 March 2013.] Saudi Arabia - The authorities imprison prominent human rights defenders Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani and dissolve the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA) On 9 March 2013, the eleventh hearing of the trial of Dr. Abdullah Al-Hamid and Dr Mohammed Al Qahtani, the co-founders of the Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), was held at the Criminal Court in Riyadh, ...
Keep Reading »Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims
[The following press release and report were issued by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsability (CLEAR) project of CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).] New Report Launch: NYPD and Its Impact on American Muslims On March 11, 2013, members of the American Muslim community will release findings from a ground-breaking new report, Mapping Muslims: NYPD ...
Keep Reading »A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq
[The following report was issued by the International Center for Transitional Justice on 4 March 2013.] A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq Executive Summary The dramatic collapse of regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has raised many important policy and justice questions. One key question is how to deal with former regimes’ security and government apparatuses. The National Democratic Party in Egypt and the Constitutional Rally party in Tunisia were ...
Keep Reading »Targeting Women Activists in Bahrain
[The following report was originally published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 7 March 2013.] International Women's Day: Bahraini Women Imprisoned, Tortured, Killed, Stripped from Nationality...and Impunity for Abusers On International Women's Day, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its grave concern and condemnation over the continued violations of women's rights in Bahrain. Due to Bahraini women's important role in the Bahraini uprising, calling for democracy and political ...
Keep Reading »Brooklyn College, BDS, and Palestinian Rights
[The following statement was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 2 March 2013.] Earlier in February, a panel held at Brooklyn College on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel was subjected to relentless vilification, bullying, and unfounded allegations. The campaign against Brooklyn College was so intense that even the New York Times and the mayor of New York intervened to express their support for academic freedom ...
Keep Reading »Jordanian Held Incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
[The following call to action was issued by Amnesty International on 26 February 2013.] A Jordanian man has been held incommunicado in an undisclosed location in Saudi Arabia since 6 January. He was last seen being arrested by Saudi Arabian security forces, and has since been denied access to his family and to the outside would. The conditions of his detention may amount to enforced disappearance if the Saudi Arabian authorities continue to refuse disclosing his fate. Jordanian web ...
Keep Reading »Letter Concerning the UAE "Blacklisting" of Dr. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).] February 28, 2013 His Excellency Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan Minister of Foreign Affairs United Arab Emirates via fax +971 02 444 7766 Your Excellency, I write to you on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF) to register shock and deep dismay at the denial of entry into the United ...
Keep Reading »«بدايات مستمرة والثورات في «اول السكّة
[صدور العدد الجديد من ”بدايات“] تقديم العدد متأخرا، يصل هذا العدد الخاص بفصلي الخريف والشتاء ٢٠١٢-٢٠١٣ الى ايدي القراء. السبب؟ لن نتردد في الافصاح عنه. إحتجنا المزيد من الوقت لتجميع ميزانيته. فالشكر لقلة من الاصدقاء الذي يوفرون كل ثلاثة اشهر ما يكفي لاصدار عدد جديد من «بدايات». وهي مناسبة لان نطالب قراءنا، والمعنيين بوجود أصوات متزايدة لليسار المستقل، بالاقبال على شراء المجلة والتعريف بها وتسجيل الاشتراكات والتبرّع. مع اطلالة العام الجديد، تدخل «بدايات» عامها الثاني وتدخل الثورات العربية عامها ...
Keep Reading »Concern Over Arrest of Human Rights Defender Zainab Al-Khawaja
[The following statement was issued by Front Line Defenders on 1 March 2013.] On 27 February 2013, human rights defender Ms Zainab Al-Khawaja was arrested by security forces during a peaceful sit-in in front of the Royal Palace in Al Qudaybiyah. Meanwhile, on 28 February 2013, the Court of Appeal rejected an appeal lodged by the human rights defender against a sentence of two months imprisonment, while an appeal against another one month imprisonment sentence was also rejected by the ...
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