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The Fate of Human Dignity is in our Hands

“Benign neglect” will not be the policy of a president who has just won an election that returned him to the White House for the next four years.

(CHICAGO) - Writing for both Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Peter Beinart used a surprising phrase to describe how President Obama plans to deal with the Israel/Palestine issue during his second term.

Beinart took his clue from the “pro forma and bland” response the White House...

Sri Lanka: End Police Harassment of Members of Human Rights Organisations

Members of 'Right to Life' and 'Families of the Disappeared' in trouble for speaking freely and video.

(SALEM) - A new round of arrests and unlawful detentions in Sri Lanka aimed at two particular human rights groups, remind us of the political danger in this island nation.

Some of those hassled were undergoing that treatment specifically because of a documentary they produced and showed.

Israel`s Supporters Dismiss `Golden Rule`; Navigate With a Shattered Moral Compass

There simply are no similar pictures of Israeli people being killed.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - It is a shame that Americans are indifferent to the people of Gaza. Human beings just like anyone else, they are the victims of Israeli military aggression and it is not a pretty picture as this video shows.

There simply are no similar pictures of Israeli people being killed.

In International Law Does Israel Have the Legal Right to Exist?

America continues its “war on terror” to spread freedom in the Muslim world one Israeli bullet, rocket, missile, bomb, and assassination at a time.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The US will sell Israel $647 million in munitions to renew the inventory of the Israel Defense Forces following the massive bombings in Gaza.

Israeli Soldiers Chased Away by Stone-Throwing Palestinian Youth

What does it mean?

(LONDON) - It isn't every day that we see Israeli soldiers actually running for their lives from stone throwing Palestinian youth.

Elizabeth Haq: Why does the World Ignore Sri Lanka`s Crimes?

It is essential that the rest of the world open its eyes to the country’s bloody deeds as well.

(TORONTO National Post) - No one knows how many thousands of people died in Sri Lanka in 2009, the year that marked the end of a decades-long struggle between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Certainly, it was one of the bloodier conflicts that the world has witnessed in recent decades. But no one outside Sri Lanka really seems to care.

A Friend`s Appeal to Burma

First, I appeal to human conscience on the grounds of humanity and human rights.

(RANGOON, Burma Mizzima News) - The violence in Arakan State over the past two weeks has caused disillusion for some, division among many, and shock and anguish for everyone.

Racial and religious tensions that have simmered just beneath the surface for years have exploded into an ugly cycle of destruction and revenge which threatens to derail Burma’s journey towards democracy and peace.

Will Palestinians Ever `Seize Their Destiny`

...and stop running head-on into a brick wall?

(LONDON) - Some commentators have been saying that Israel's latest land-grab has effectively killed off the two-state solution (if such a thing was ever truly feasible). And this has led to questions like, what should the Palestinians do next?

Palestinians must have been asking themselves the same thing for the last 64 years.

Why is the Birth Rate in Israel`s Ethiopian Community Declining?

Women say that while waiting in transit camps in Ethiopia they were coaxed into agreeing to injections of long-acting birth control drugs. (Also in Hebrew)

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Women who immigrated from Ethiopia eight years ago say they were told they would not be allowed into Israel unless they agreed to be injected with the long-acting birth control drug Depo Provera.

This, according to an investigative report aired yesterday on the Israel Educational Television program "Vacuum."

Child Victims of Israeli Violence...

Besides killing our children in Gaza, a great number of Palestinian children in Occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank get arrested by Israel each year.

(GAZA STRIP) - The scene of rain was very beautiful; the lands of Gaza covered with a white colour, the smell of the land fertilizing my soul.

Raindrops fell on my face and hair, my eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the sad music started because I remembered the martyrs, the injured and the orphans.