SECRET IRAQI PRISONS: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO TORTURE BY GOVERNMENT FORCES
December 12, 2005
Forwarded press release from Doctors for Iraq.
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Inrernational Human Rights Day.
December 10, 2005
Sat December 10th 1pm-2pm, at St James\’s Church,Piccadilly W.1 Inrernational Human Rights Day. Azmat Begg: Guantanamo Human Rights Commission Suzanne Bertish Kika Markham Edna O\’Brien Corin Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave Massoud Shadjareh Islamic Human Rights Commission with the Inklein Quartet \”Peace\” composed by Steve Bentley-Klein and
PRESS RELEASE: Prayers for Norman Kember and colleagues’ release
December 9, 2005
IHRC calls on campaigners to pray for the release of the peace activists kidnapped in Iraq, including British campaigner Norman Kember.
ACTION ALERT: Demand Suspension of Police Officer for Desecrating Qu’ran
December 8, 2005
IHRC calls on all campaigners to contact The MPS and the Independent Police Complaints Commission regarding alleged Qur’an desecration by a police officer.
Israel Simply Has No Right To Exist
December 7, 2005
This article summarises the moral and legal contentions that undermine Israel’s claim to legitimacy. From Golda Meir’s infamous contentions that the country is the realisation of a promise from God to the current capitulation by the Palestinian leadership to notions of Israeli sovereignty, the author suggests there can be no peace without an acceptance of the concept that the existence of Israel has no normative foundation.
The Only Alternative
December 6, 2005
In this second piece written two years later, Said looks critically at the Palestinian failure to harness cultural sympathy with the struggle for self-determination and expose the true nature of Zionist exclusivism. He sees the failure rooted ultimately in the failure to provide an alternative solution that did not rely on American benevolence and which failed to address the idea of a shared and common humanity.
