Recent Posts Tagged With 'human rights'

• The Palestinian Tragedy

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 09:08 in human rights, iraq, palestine, jordan, kuwait, lebanon, refugees, hussein, gulf war i, gulf war ii

  The fact that the divided Palestinian political leadership is silent about the mistreatment of the refugees by Arab states does not make such behaviour any less reprehensible – or less dangerous. Some 250,000 Palestinians were chased out of Kuw...

• More Human Rights Abusers Terrified of any Precedent

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 07:37 in Israel, china, human rights, war crimes, United Nations

  China will oppose discussing the Goldstone report at the United Nations Security Council, Chinese members of parliament told a delegation of visiting Israeli officials in Beijing on Wednesday. (full article…) ...

• Glenn Greenwald on American Hypocrisy

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 22:24 in Israel, United States, human rights, torture, United Nations, international law

  One of the taboo topics in the American media is how the U.S. Government routinely violates the principles we espouse for, and try to impose on, the rest of the world. We systematically torture Muslims and then cover it up and protect our torturers ...

• Editorializing in the NYT

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 13:31 in Israel, china, media, human rights, palestine, saudi arabia, propaganda, new york times

  The council has a long history of focusing on Israel, while ignoring human rights abuses in other member states like China and Saudi Arabia. (full article…)...

• I Forgive All But Japan, Norway and Belgium – What Gives?

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 08:36 in Israel, japan, human rights, war crimes, belgium, norway, United Nations

  The abstaining countries included: Bosnia, Burkina-Faso, Cameron, Gabon, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Belgium, South Korea, Slovenia and Uruguay. (full article…)...

• Zionist Outbursts

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 07:31 in Israel, human rights, war crimes, knesset

  MK Danny Danon attacked the Goldstone report during a speech in Knesset Wednesday and ripped up a synopsis of it. (full article…)...

• When Pro-Life Become Pro-Death

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 07:27 in abortion, human rights

  About 70,000 women die every year and many more suffer harm as a result of unsafe abortions in countries with restrictive laws on ending a pregnancy, according to a report. (full article…)...

• Something Iran and the U.S. Have in Common

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 06:56 in United States, human rights, iran, capital punishment, amnesty international

  Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Behnoud Shojaee, a 21-year-old Iranian, at Tehran’s Evin Prison at dawn on Sunday, for a murder he was accused of having committed when he was 17. (full article…)...

• This is Zionism.

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 14:49 in Israel, children, human rights, palestine, military occupation

  According to the latest figures compiled by DCI-Palestine from sources including the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) and temporary Israeli army detention facilities, the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons and detention centres in...

• Culture of Impunity

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 09:37 in Israel, human rights, palestine, justice, war crimes, United Nations, Gaza, international law

  “A culture of impunity in the region has existed for too long,” Goldstone, a former UN war crimes prosecutor, told the UN Human Rights Council. “The lack of accountability for war crimes and possible war crimes against humanity has...

• Diplomatic Immunity For War Crimes

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 09:31 in Israel, human rights, palestine, justice, war crimes, great britain, barak

  “No arrest warrant has been issued, and in any event, he has immunity due to his being a minister in the government,” the bureau said in a statement. “Therefore, his program will continue without disturbance.” (full article&#...

• Killing Refugees

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 17:35 in human rights, yemen, protest

  More than 80 refugees were killed in a government raid against a camp in north Yemen where Shi’ite rebels are challenging President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a camp source and news reports said on Thursday. (full article…)...

• Zionist (Lack of) Methodology

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 16:47 in human rights, war crimes, Gaza, military occupation, b'tselem, irsael

  PCHR and B’Tselem based their tallies on painstaking field research. (There are some small discrepancies between them. But most can be explained by differences in the definitions used.) The Israeli government, by contrast, has not revealed the...

• When Zionists Can’t Disprove Allegations, They Smear

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 07:41 in Israel, human rights, jerusalem, human rights watch

  “In terms of reports on Israel, HRW has a very serious bias and lack of credibility,” said Gerald Steinberg, who is president of of NGO Monitor and a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan. “They handle Israel differently tha...

• Every Crime Recorded

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 07:35 in Israel, human rights, war crimes, Gaza, military occupation, b'tselem

  According to the B’Tselem data, 773 of those killed did not take part in the hostilities, 320 of whom were minors under the age of 18 and 109 were women (above the age of 18). The rest of those killed were 330 armed combatants, 245 Palestinian ...

• Every Crime Recorded

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 20:45 in Israel, human rights, palestine, war crimes, Gaza, military occupation, b'tselem

  The first detailed casualty figures from an Israeli human rights organisation since the war ended puts the number of children under 16 killed in the offensive at 252 as opposed to the 89 cited by the military. B’Tselem says its fieldworkers gat...