Bahrain: Harassment of woman human rights defender, Ghada Jamsheer Front Line is deeply concerned following information received regarding an alleged harassment campaign against Ghada Jamsheer, a woman human rights defender. Ghada Jamsheer is the president of the Women’s Petition Committee, an organisation which campaigns for the rights and dignity of women in the shari’ah family courts. While Ghada Jamsheer was [...]
Archive for January 20th, 2009
One Step forward in compassion, two steps backward in disgust… the regional waltz resumes….
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Once the dust begins to settle….
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In the next few days and weeks, Israeli elections will roll on while Gazans will spend this time digging the bodies of relatives out of the rubble. Grief can grab us in the middle of a horrendous moment, where a single image has the power to lead our minds down corridors we would not regularly [...]
Thank you, Saudi Arabia!!
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Saudi Arabia pledged 1 BILLION dollars to the rebuilding of Gaza. Thank goodness for oil – who else is stepping up to foot the bill people? All’s quiet on the Western front.
For those who are wondering what I am doing here exactly…
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I wrote this account of my first trip into the field… you notice there are no grass-roots quotes’ in this case study, because the majority of my understanding solidified in the bus ride home when I could ask what was going on…. being in a country where you don’t speak the language is like swimming [...]
