The Janus-like Arab human rights groups Daily Star Lebanon | By Moataz El-Fegiery | Commentary by | Friday, July 04, 2008 | What United Nations literature calls national human rights institutions (NHRIs) have emerged in recent years in the Arab world. A few of them - for example in Morocco and Palestine - have attained some autonomy in confronting governmen...
2 activists (and 2 views) of women's rights in Morocco International Herald Tribune | : Saida Idrissi and Nadia Yassine have a lot in common in the fight for women's rights in Morocco. | The two advocates battle violence against women while campaigning for their education and the ability to participate in politics. They are nonetheless separated by a divide that, according to both,...
Israeli rabbi invited to Saudi interfaith meeting Examiner JERUSALEM (Map, News) - Saudi Arabia has invited an Israeli rabbi to an interfaith conference in Spain, potentially the first step in wider contacts between the kingdom and Israel, the rabbi told The Associated Press on Thursday. | Rabbi David Rosen ...
Madeleine case timeline BBC News | It is almost one year since three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment while her parents, Kate and Gerry, ate at a nearby tapas bar. | The couple, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have been in the glare of the public ey...
Morocco: Drop Criminal Charges Against Rights Defender, Journalist Human Rights | (New York, July 1, 2008) – Morocco should drop criminal charges against a human rights defender and a television reporter, both of whom are accused of disseminating “false information,” Human Rights Watch said today. | Al-Jazeera’s Rabat bur...
Supreme Court takes CSIS to task over evidence destruction Canoe By Jonathan Montpetit, THE CANADIAN PRESS | Adil Charkaoui flashes a victory sign as he leaves a news conference Thursday, June 26, 2008 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz | MONTREAL - Canada's spy service misinterpreted its own mandate by ...
Moroccan court bans publishing abuse testimony Middle East Online RABAT - A Moroccan court on Thursday ordered a newspaper to stop publishing testimony given by victims of years of repression under late king Hassan II to a royal truth commission, a judicial source said. | The court found for Consultative Council fo...
Defending freedom by fighting terror with a war on liberty Islington Tribune | • Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons | By Clive Stafford Smith | Phoenix (paperback £8.99) | WHAT this book exposes about Guantanamo Bay and the War on Terror will terrify you: Thousands of civilians, including children and old men...
Moroccan men jailed for deadly factory fire Independent online | Rabat - A Moroccan court has jailed three men for between two and four years for a fire at a Casablanca mattress factory that killed 55 people in one of the country's worst industrial accidents, official media reported on Thursday. | The official M...
