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George Soros digs deep for human rights with $100m gift

by RAINman on 09. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Independent – 8 September 2010
Continuing a lifelong habit of putting money where his mouth is, George Soros has announced a gift of $100m (£65m) to Human Rights Watch, the organisation which seeks to monitor abuses of power and to lobby transgressing governments and companies.
The billionaire financier – known as the [...]

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Palestinian woman prevented from visiting imprisoned son for 14 years

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Monitor    MEMO, September 6, 2010
A Palestinian human rights worker has reported that Israeli forces continue to prevent, Umm Ibrahim, an elderly woman in her 70s, from visiting her son after 14 years on the pretext that she poses as security threat to Israel. Umm Ibrahim had no choice but to find a Palestinian [...]

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Robert Fisk : Egyptians prepare for life after Mubarak

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Their President of 29 years is very ill. But with no nominated successor, an uncertain future awaits, writes Robert Fisk in Cairo
Independent  - Tuesday, 24 August 2010
So here comes the latest Egyptian joke about 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak. The president, a keen squash player – how else could he keep his jet-black hair? – calls up [...]

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‘I would gladly kill Arabs – even slaughter them’

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

In new bid to defend publishing controversial images, former IDF soldier Eden Abergil writes on Facebook ‘In war there are no rules.’
By Haaretz Service
Haaretz     Fri, August 20, 2010
Eden Abergil, the former Israel Defense Forces soldier who has been criticized for publishing controversial images on Facebook, allegedly wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday that [...]

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Arabs face increased discrimination at Tel Aviv University

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Analysis

Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 17 August 2010
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Palestinian Arab counterparts have been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups.
The new initiatives are viewed as part of an ongoing drive by right-wing politicians in Israel to demand [...]

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DAVID SAKS: Gaza conflict — Does Goldstone even realise the damage he has done?

by RAINman on 27. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

(Saks is associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.)
Business Day  South Africa – 26 July 2010
HAVE the recent findings of an Israeli military investigation vindicated those of last year’s United Nations (UN) factfinding mission into the Gaza conflict? If so, should the South African Jewish communal leadership now “beg forgiveness” of Judge [...]

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Daniel Pearl act identifies violations of press freedom globally

by RAINman on 22. Jul, 2010 in Analysis

Daoud Kuttab
Palestine Note – 21 Jul 2010
With little fanfare in Washington, and with few countries in the world noticing, President Barack Obama signed into law an act that will hold governments all around the world accountable for violations of human rights.
The Daniel Pearl Act of 2009, signed into law on May 27, 2010 is [...]

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Israel to UN: Human Rights Obligations Don’t Apply in Occupied Territories

by RAINman on 19. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

ICCPR Only Applies Inside Pre-’67 Borders, Officials Insist
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum  -   July 16, 2010
Addressing the United Nations today regarding its many, many violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Israeli government declared that it believes the treaty, which it ratified in 1991, does not apply in the occupied territories.
The delegation [...]

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Amira Hass: Israel bans Gaza woman from studying human rights in West Bank

by RAINman on 13. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Haaretz  - July 12, 2010
The day after Barack Obama praised Benjamin Netanyahu for easing the blockade of Gaza, the High Court of Justice supported the state’s position that a lawyer from the Gaza Strip should not be allowed to leave it so she can study for a master’s degree in human rights at Birzeit University in [...]

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Autopsy confirms Shopian rape, murder case, IHK HC told

by RAINman on 19. May, 2010 in General

Kashmir Media Service – 19 May 2010
Srinagar: The occupation authorities told the High Court of occupied Kashmir that medical opinion had confirmed rape and murder of teenager, Asiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar of Shopian in May last year.

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US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’

by RAINman on 18. May, 2010 in General

Breitbart  - 13 May 2010
US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes.
“Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them,” the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George [...]

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Uzbekistan’s Aids shame

by RAINman on 13. May, 2010 in Opinion

HIV infections are on the rise, yet activist Maxim Popov has been given a seven-year jail sentence for his prevention work

Paul Canning
guardian.co.uk – 12 May 2010
In Uzbekistan it seems that promoting condoms and sterile needles to stop the spread of HIV is “immoral” and deserving of imprisonment in its notorious jails. The country, [...]

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