Burka ban: protection or violation the civil liberties ?

The French National Assembly last week approved by a vote of 355 to 1 a measure which would ban women from wearing the burka and the niqab in public places.

France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, or 6 percent of the population. An estimated 2,000 French Muslims wear the niqab. The less-restricted hijab, or headscarf, was banned from public schools in 2004. > more.

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Germany raps Israel for denying minister entry into Gaza

German development minister said Israel has made a ‘large foreign policy mistake’ by barring him from visiting the Gaza Strip.

Germany sharply criticized Israel on Sunday for denying its development minister entry to the Gaza Strip to visit a humanitarian project co-funded by Berlin.

Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said he regretted Israel’s decision, while Development Minister Dirk Niebel – who is on a four-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories — said it was “a big diplomatic mistake”. > more.
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‘My murdered uncle would not have wanted Ronnie Lee Gardner executed’

As the Utah firing squad did its job, two women embraced – both nieces, one of a victim, the other of the killer.

In a darkened car park high on a hill overlooking the sparkling nightscape of Salt Lake City, two young women are clinging to each other and weeping. Their embrace conveys more than a thousand speeches.

Both women are nieces, and both have lost their much-loved uncles > more.

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Israel to Ease Gaza Land Blockade

JERUSALEM — Israel announced Thursday that it would “liberalize” its 3-year-old blockade of Gaza by allowing more goods to enter by land, but it made no offer to lift its naval embargo.

The move, coming weeks after Israeli commandos killed nine people aboard an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, seemed designed to quell international protest over the violence. Israel says its soldiers were attacked before they opened fire in self-defense on pro-Palestinianactivists aboard the ship. > more.

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A System called Apartheid

Well Jo’anna she runs a country

She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don’t care about the rest at all
She’s got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo’anna see
How everybody could a live as one

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Israel rejects multinational inquiry into flotilla attack

UN-proposed commission into flotilla raid is dismissed as global pressure grows for Israel to ease its blockade of Gaza.

Israel‘s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, today dismissed a UN proposal for an international commission to investigate last week’sassault on a flotilla of aid ships.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, proposed a commission of inquiry headed by the former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer, who is an expert in maritime law. The commission would include representatives of Israel, the US and Turkey. All nine activists killed in the operation were Turkish; one held joint US citizenship. > more.
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Ritual Cruelty

After similar, astonishing reports in the USA, it appears that The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) is about to discuss allowing doctors to perform a ‘ritual nick’ on a young girl’s genitals in order to satisfy some cultures’ needs – in place of ritual genital mutilation.

Former sex discrimination commissioner, Pru Goward has…>more.

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Israeli activist to be jailed for caring

Ezra Nawi was ridiculed and arrested for trying to protect people’s homes. Only international attention can help him now. Without international intervention, the Israeli human rights activist will most likely be sent to jail. > more.

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