Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The second biggest news in Jerusalem (after Iran), the day after I returned from Geneva, was the film taken by a 14-year-old Palestinian girl of an instance of sadistic and dishonorable treatment by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers — including an officer — of a bound, blindfolded, and quiet Palestinian detained for demonstrating against the construction [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“The human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory remains grave”, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour informed the members of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
Three new reports on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory were discussed at the Human Rights Council in [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Kofi Annan, Middle East Peace Process, NGOs, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It appears that just as the revelation that Holocaust bank accounts had been retained for decades by Swiss banks without much effort to identify survivors or heirs was used to wrench modifications in the secrecy provisions that were the Swiss banking system’s greatest pride and asset, the disaster caused by the recent cyclone in Myanmar [...]
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Filed under: Donors, Journalism and Journalists, Myanmar, NGOs, USA, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
