A friend of mine had to go through such an irritating experience with the facebook administration; according to Ibrahim Mughrabi, facebook has deleted content on his personal profile related to the “Zionist attacks on Gaza”. He says he’s been contacted by the administration and warned that he’d be suspended from posting stuff on facebook if [...]
Archive for the 'Human Rights' Category
A new Ad campaign that’s worthy of mention has been aired on MBC channels for a few weeks now and I must say that I’m totally impressed. The subject this time is migrants’ rights, an issue we have sort of swept under the carpet for decades. It’s time to acknowledge foreign labor and domestic workers [...]
They’re starved to death, mind you but if saying that “they’re not getting a balanced diet” gets through to anyone then similarly, children are terrified to sleep at night without night lamps. Translation: 70 percent of Gaza is living without electricity after Israel has forced the shut down of Gaza’s main power plant last week.
Gazans [...]
The situation is beyond disastrous at this point.
Please sign this petition and speak up about this on your blog. You can sign the Arabic petition too.
To whom it may concern: the siege must be broken immediately.
Honor Crimes in the Jordan Times
30Oct08Over the past two years (ever since I came to Jordan) the language used in “honor crimes” news reports have not changed. Despite of the social outrage towards these crimes and the call for a legal reform, the Jordan Times, is still parroting the radical voices of a tribal mindset instead fighting them or at [...]
Nakba in My Memory and Today
16May08In my memory…
60 years ago my father, an 8 year old boy at the time, along with his family took a bus from Ayn Hawd , a small village in Haifa to the West Bank. That wasn’t a trip though; they were so frightened and in a hurry that they left everything behind. That was [...]
Day of Blog Silence for Fouad
05Jan08Fouad Alfarhan is a Saudi blogger who uses his blog, alfarhan.org, to promote political reform and greater freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. He was forced to stop blogging at the beginning of 2007 after being harassed by government officials, but then resumed writing in July 2007. He was arrested without charge on Tuesday, December [...]
This week in Palestine: Gazans decided to go on strike in protest to violence caused by Hamas-linked groups two days ago. This is the first strike since Hamas gained power three months ago; the majority of shops, universities and even hospitals were closed on Sunday. Hamas shrugged it off and considered it an attempt by [...]
A very disturbing report by the DCI was published on Welcome to Baqa’a Refugee Camp about Palestinian children tortured, prisoned and sexually abused by the Israeli occupational forces. The report states that in 2006 and the first half of 2007:
Only 3 to 5% of the juveniles abducted were granted bail pending trial.
Over 99% [...]
Investigation my…
04May07Two teachers tied up a 2nd or 3rd grade female student and took turns in beating her, in one of Amman’s school. The teachers tied her up to the safety net of a window, and had another student watch her being tortured, perhaps to learn a lesson. Read the full story here (in Arabic)
But not [...]
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