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Dossier 25: The Role of the International Community in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

23 April 2002

Thank you for inviting me here to give a Palestinian perspective on the Role of the International Community in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In fact, the perspective I will be speaking from is that of human rights. I consider myself to be a human being first, and my ideology is human rights.

Dossier 14-15: Naissance, nationalisme et guerre

Du fondamentalisme ethnique au fondamentalisme religieux
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Afghanistan: What good friends left behind

Two years ago, as the bombs began to drop, George Bush promised Afghanistan 'the generosity of America and its allies'. Now, the familiar old warlords are regaining power, religious fundamentalism is renewing its grip and military skirmishes continue...

التأثير السياسي لمحطات التلفزيون

Iraq: We do not want tears, we want solidarity by Farida Akhter

Following her trip to Baghdad from 5-9 March 2003, Farida Akhter writes about her experiences and thoughts.

Worldwide: "I'm not going to respond to terrorism by becoming a terrorist"

If you'd lost a loved one, would you want revenge? As the world edges closer to war, Rachel Shabi of the UK newspaper 'The Guardian' talks to relatives who believe retaliation is wrong.

Dossier 23-24: Kosovo War, Feminists and Fascism in Serbia

[Belgrade, May 20th-August 5th, 1999]

The Kosovo crisis is at the heart of the decade long war drama of the late country that used to be called Yugoslavia. The symbolic sign of the scope of immensely shallow (mis)understanding of the dead country’s destiny is (for those of us who still remember) today painfully visible in CNN headlines: “War in Yugoslavia”.

What “Yugoslavia” the world is talking about today? The trick with people’s memory and amnesia is maybe unintentional, but it’s no less misleading.

Dossier 14-15: Birth, Nationalism and War

In late eighties, with the consolidation of nationalism as the state ideology in Serbia, the propaganda directed against women grew stronger. It is well known that in periods of acute crisis, economic repression or marked repression, women are called to turn back to "home and family"; they are referred to as "the angels of the home earth", as ideal mothers, as faithful wives… Such propaganda, among other things, aims at postponing or preventing social tensions, outburst of social discontent caused by mass lay-offs of working men and women.

Worldwide: United for peace and justice - stop the war on Iraq

Historic Day of Anti-War Protests Worldwide.

UK: Media workers against the war

Workers in the media opposed to the current war drive.