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april 24, 2013 · 1:48 pm

[Amnesty International] Israel: New government must scrap plans to forcibly evict Bedouin

Bedouin residents of Wadi Na'am village are being forced to move because of a nearby chemical factory.Bedouin residents of Wadi Na’am village are being forced to move because of a nearby chemical factory.© Amnesty International

“>Ibrahim Azazmeh is a campaigner for the residents of Wadi Na'am, excluded village in the Negev/Naqab, in Israel.

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Ibrahim Azazmeh is a campaigner for the residents of Wadi Na’am, excluded village in the Negev/Naqab, in Israel.

© Amnesty International

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Forcibly evicting tens of thousands of Bedouin from communities where they have lived for generations cannot be justified in the name of economic development or any other reason – Israel’s new leaders must have the courage to venture where previous governments have ignored human rights standards

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Ann Harrison, Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director at Amnesty International
Sat, 20/04/2013

Israel’s new government must drop a proposed law that would lead to mass forced evictions of Bedouin people and instead pursue legislation to protect Bedouin housing rights, Amnesty International said, as the Ministerial Committee on Legislation is due to consider the proposal on Sunday.

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· 11:47 am

[Electronic Intifada]/Palestine activists call on Netherlands prince to dissociate from JNF waterproject

PALESTINE ACTIVISTS CALL ON THE NETHERLANDS PRINCE TO DISSOCIATE

FROM JNF WATERPROJECT

 

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Thu, 04/18/2013 – 19:41

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Demonstrators in Jerusalem protest the Jewish National Fund’s colonization projects in the Naqab/Negev desert, February 2011.

(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)

Palestinian boycott activists are calling on the Netherlands’ Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a water project undertaken by the Jewish National Fund Netherlands in the Naqab/Negev desert in the south of present-day Israel. The project is in honor of the prince’s inauguration as king later this month.

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and a founder of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, told The Electronic Intifada: “The [JNF] has played a key role in the dispossession of the Palestinians and in colonizing their lands. Today, [the JNF] continues its explicitly racist practices against Palestinians and rejects any notion of equal rights for all. Palestinian civil society appreciates the prominence that equality and non-discrimination have in the Dutch constitution and based on this, appeal to Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a project of the JNF.”

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april 22, 2013 · 5:38 am

Human Rights Watch/Report/”All you can do is pray”/Crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State

 

 

 

Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma’s Arakan State
APRIL 22, 2013
This 153-page report describes the role of the Burmese government and local authorities in the forcible displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Burmese officials, community leaders, and Buddhist monks organized and encouraged ethnic Arakanese backed by state security forces to conduct coordinated attacks on Muslim neighborhoods and villages in October 2012 to terrorize and forcibly relocate the population. The tens of thousands of displaced have been denied access to humanitarian aid and been unable to return Verder lezen →

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april 10, 2013 · 4:53 am

Reaction to KLM Facebook/After the deportation/Your complicity with the deportation of an Afghan family to unsafe and dangerous Afghanistan

KLM COMPLICITY WITH THE DEPORTATION OF AN AFGHAN FAMILY TO
UNSAFE AND DANGEROUS AFGHANISTAN/LETTER TO THE KLM
LETTER TO THE KLM:
TO KLM BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND MANAGEMENT
YOUR COMPLICITY WITH THE DEPORTATION OF AN AFGHAN FAMILY TO
DANGEROUS AFGHANISTAN ON 9 APRIL 2013

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· 4:17 am

KLM complicity with the deportation of an Afghan family to unsafe and dangerous Afghanistan/Letter to the KLM

UNSAFE AND DANGEROUS AFGHANISTAN/LETTER TO THE KLM
LETTER TO THE KLM:
TO KLM BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND MANAGEMENT
REQUEST NOT TO DEPORT AN AFGHAN FAMILY TO UNSAFE AND DANGEROUS AFGHANISTAN
REASON:
PERSONAL DANGER AND GENERAL DANGEROUS SITUATION IN
WAR STRICKEN AFGHANISTAN
AMSTERDAM 8TH OF APRIL 2013
Dear Board of Directors

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april 6, 2013 · 3:01 pm

Human Rights Watch/Russia: Merkel, Rutte should press Putin on rights

RUSSIA: MERKEL, RUTTE SHOULD PRESS PUTIN ON RIGHTS

 

Wave of ‘Inspections’ the Latest Phase in Kremlin’s Worst Crackdown in 20 Years
APRIL 4, 2013

  • A participant is detained by police on Moscow March 24, 2013 during a protest to show solidarity for those arrested at opposition rallies in May 2012.

    © 2013 Reuters
Trade fairs are about doing business, but Merkel should make clear to Putin that it cannot be business as usual for Germany’s relations with Russia until the attacks on civil society stop. This is the worst crackdown in Russia in 20 years. It is admirable to promote deeper understanding between Russia and the Netherlands, but this has very little meaning if vital parts of Russian society cannot express themselves freely.
Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director

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· 2:56 am

Human Rights Watch/Burma: Rohingya Muslims face humanitarian crisis

 

 

BURMA: ROHINGYA MUSLIMS FACE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

Fears of Long-Term Segregation of Displaced Population
MARCH 26, 2013
Burmese government restrictions on aid to Rohingya Muslims are creating a humanitarian crisis that will become a disaster when the rainy season arrives. Instead of addressing the problem, Burma’s leaders seem intent on keeping the Rohingya segregated in camps rather than planning for them to return to their homes.
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director

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april 3, 2013 · 4:34 am

On the death of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez/No hero/No dictator

 

ON THE DEATH OF THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ/NO HERO/NO DICTATOR

It’s the same North American Empire
But we are glad, that that one is no more
Adios Signor Bush
Quote from Chavez on the election victory of President Obama 2008
”I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.”
BRAINY QUOTE/QUOTES HUGO CHAVEZ

http://www.brainyquote.com/ quotes/quotes/h/ hugochavez177590.html

 
 
”“The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.” – on George W. Bush, who appeared before the UN General Assembly a day earlier in 2006.
 
CNN
ON ”DEVIL” GEORGE W BUSH AND MORE: FAMOUS QUOTES BY HUGO CHAVEZ
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/on- devil-george-w-bush-and-more- famous-quotes-by-hugo-chavez/ 376954-2.html

“Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity.”
 
CNN 
ON ”DEVIL” GEORGE W BUSH AND MORE: FAMOUS QUOTES BY HUGO CHAVEZ
 
 
Dear Readers,
 
It was  to be expected,that  the death[1] of the colourful Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez [2] caused passionate reactions by friend or enemy.
His Western political adversaries emphasized his ”dictatorship” and oppression
of the freedom of opinion [3], a critic, that is partly shared by human rights organisation
Human Rights Watch [4]
Chavez leftist supporters [publicists/organisations] and politicians like Latin American leaders like Fidel Castro [Cuba], Morales [Bolivia] and Correa [Ecuador, who granted
Julian Assange political asylum], admired his social engagement and anti imperialism [5], which sometimes led to  exaggerated admiration
Chavez was also praised by politicians, who had their own reason to be anti Western, like
the Iranian president Ahmadinejad, the Surinam president and ex dictator D Bouterse [6]  and
the president of Belarus, Lukashenko [all the three were present at Chavez’ funeral]

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januari 22, 2013 · 1:16 pm

The trial against Joke Kaviaar/Closing speech Joke/Each word a spark!

 

EACH WORD A SPARK

The Public Prosecution thinks it has the right to prosecute me on charges of what it calls ‘incitement’. In fact they are persecuting me because of my opinion, because of my written attacks on the destruction machine that is called immigration policy.

NHD29.12.12In an article published in the newspaper, Noord Hollands Dagblad, dated December 29, 2012 a spokesman of the National Prosecutors Office said about their case against me: “We find it most of all important that she stands trial and has to answer herself for her words.” So, for words… Words that I will not take back. The same spokesman also said: “The defendant seems to have done nothing to make sure that her website would disappear.”

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januari 8, 2013 · 12:17 am

The trial against Joke Kaviaar/No Borders Anarchist Joke Kaviaar comes out fighting against incitement trial

NO BORDERS ANARCHIST JOKE KAVIAAR COMES OUT FIGHTING AGAINST INCITEMENT TRIAL

“Well excuse me for living!” Dutch anarchist and No Borders activist Joke Kaviaar goes on trial in Haarlem tomorrow for “incitement” for her writings over seven years slamming the racist border system in the Netherlands and across Fortress Europe. Anonymous put her site back online, and on the eve of her trial she’s released this song on youtube:
 
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