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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Tunisian police fire on protesters, one dead
Tunisia's government regretted on Saturday the death of a man killed by security forces during protests over unemployment and high inflation but insisted the government had to prevent violent protests.
Hafnawi al-Maghazoui, 22, was killed by a bullet in the lung when police opened fire, while 22 other protesters were wounded; union leader Adnen Hajji told Reuters.
Social unrest has rumbled on in Redeyef and the wider phosphate mining region of Gafsa for two months.
Police made brief arrests in Redeyef in April after clashes with stone-throwing demonstrators.Since January Gafsa has seen sporadic protests against a rise in the cost of living and corruption.
"The security forces came under assault from thrown flammable objects and were obliged to intervene to neutralize certain people who were making them," said an official in Tunis who declined to be named.
Police fired guns to disperse hundreds of youths rioting over joblessness and rising living costs in southwest Tunisia, leaving one dead and several injured.
A government source put the toll of injured at three police officers and five demonstrators.
"We regret this incident," Justice and Human Rights Minister Bechir Tekkari said at a news conference, a day after violent protests left one dead and several injured.
"Such disturbances are rare in Tunisia," he added.He stressed that security forces were determined to prevent any threats to public order and defended tough police action to protect people.
"We won't tolerate any use of violence," he said, referring to protests in the region against unemployment.Friday's clash took place in Redeyef, in a mining region some 350 kilometers (217 miles) from the capital Tunis.The minister rejected claims that police fired without warning, saying that security forces acted lawfully.
He said the situation spiraled out of control when police attacked a group of individuals who were making Molotov cocktails after some were thrown at security forces.Rising food and fuel prices have sparked riots and strikes around the world in recent months.
Hafnawi al-Maghazoui, 22, was killed by a bullet in the lung when police opened fire, while 22 other protesters were wounded; union leader Adnen Hajji told Reuters.
Social unrest has rumbled on in Redeyef and the wider phosphate mining region of Gafsa for two months.
Police made brief arrests in Redeyef in April after clashes with stone-throwing demonstrators.Since January Gafsa has seen sporadic protests against a rise in the cost of living and corruption.
"The security forces came under assault from thrown flammable objects and were obliged to intervene to neutralize certain people who were making them," said an official in Tunis who declined to be named.
Police fired guns to disperse hundreds of youths rioting over joblessness and rising living costs in southwest Tunisia, leaving one dead and several injured.
A government source put the toll of injured at three police officers and five demonstrators.
"We regret this incident," Justice and Human Rights Minister Bechir Tekkari said at a news conference, a day after violent protests left one dead and several injured.
"Such disturbances are rare in Tunisia," he added.He stressed that security forces were determined to prevent any threats to public order and defended tough police action to protect people.
"We won't tolerate any use of violence," he said, referring to protests in the region against unemployment.Friday's clash took place in Redeyef, in a mining region some 350 kilometers (217 miles) from the capital Tunis.The minister rejected claims that police fired without warning, saying that security forces acted lawfully.
He said the situation spiraled out of control when police attacked a group of individuals who were making Molotov cocktails after some were thrown at security forces.Rising food and fuel prices have sparked riots and strikes around the world in recent months.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Egypt's emergency law leaves trail of tears
About 18,000 Egyptians detained without charge
Fifteen years after police took away her husband, Zeinab Ahmed says she has lost hope he will return to help raise their daughter, born while he was in jail.
Mohamed el-Leithi stood trial in a military court with dozens of Islamists charged with belonging to the radical group Vanguards of Conquest.
He was acquitted but remains in jail under an emergency law that allows police to hold suspects for long periods without charge.
"Where is justice?" said Ahmed, wearing a black veil that only showed eyes welling with tears. "Drug dealers get out of jail. Murderers get out of jail. What has he done?"
About 18,000 Egyptians are detained without charge under the emergency law, in force since Islamist militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Amnesty International says. The prospect for their early release diminished this week when parliament extended the law for two years.
Local and international human rights groups accuse the ruling establishment of using it to crush dissent.
Ahmed and others with family members in detention share tales of months spent trying to find out where their relatives are detained, fruitless court release orders, financial hardship and traumatized children visiting their fathers behind bars.
During eight years when Leithi was in a prison about 450 km (300 miles) south of Cairo, Ahmed said she visited him only a handful of times a year because she could not afford to travel.
"I don't have money. My father was supporting me financially. He died.
Now my brothers support me," she said. Both Leithi's parents died when he was in jail. Mohamed Abdel-Moneim said it took him six years to find out the whereabouts of his son Amr, who has also been in jail since 1993... "
Tired? I have been running around for 15 years ... filing lawsuits," the 67-year-old retired civil servant said, choking back tears.
Torture
The government says it uses the law, which also allows authorities to send civilians for military trial, only to target terrorism suspects and drug dealers.
"If you knew the number of sabotage crimes that have been thwarted ... you would have said: 'Thank God the emergency law exists'," Moufid Shehab, a state minister, said this week. Analysts and human rights groups note 27 years of emergency law failed to stop militant attacks such as the bombings that rocked Sinai between 2004 and 2006, killing scores of Egyptians and foreign tourists.
They say the law has contributed to the rising influence of the police in public life and to what they say is systematic torture inside prisons and police stations. The interior ministry says it does not condone such practices and prosecutes officers who torture suspects."The government cannot live without a state of emergency," said Mohamed Zarea, director of the Arab Penal Reform Organisation, which offers free legal aid to detainees.Zarea was a detainee himself.
In 1988, he was kept in custody for 75 days for suspected links with an armed leftist group.
He says he was subjected to "all kinds of torture".
"It was torture that makes you wish you could die," he told Reuters, sitting behind a desk at his office in downtown Cairo.
"All kinds of torture, from beating to electric shocks to sleep deprivation, to being questioned while people next to you are beaten up ... to threats of sexual assault. All kinds." Zarea won a lawsuit against the government granting him 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,900) in compensation for his detention.
He used the money to set up his human rights group.
Fifteen years after police took away her husband, Zeinab Ahmed says she has lost hope he will return to help raise their daughter, born while he was in jail.
Mohamed el-Leithi stood trial in a military court with dozens of Islamists charged with belonging to the radical group Vanguards of Conquest.
He was acquitted but remains in jail under an emergency law that allows police to hold suspects for long periods without charge.
"Where is justice?" said Ahmed, wearing a black veil that only showed eyes welling with tears. "Drug dealers get out of jail. Murderers get out of jail. What has he done?"
About 18,000 Egyptians are detained without charge under the emergency law, in force since Islamist militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Amnesty International says. The prospect for their early release diminished this week when parliament extended the law for two years.
Local and international human rights groups accuse the ruling establishment of using it to crush dissent.
Ahmed and others with family members in detention share tales of months spent trying to find out where their relatives are detained, fruitless court release orders, financial hardship and traumatized children visiting their fathers behind bars.
During eight years when Leithi was in a prison about 450 km (300 miles) south of Cairo, Ahmed said she visited him only a handful of times a year because she could not afford to travel.
"I don't have money. My father was supporting me financially. He died.
Now my brothers support me," she said. Both Leithi's parents died when he was in jail. Mohamed Abdel-Moneim said it took him six years to find out the whereabouts of his son Amr, who has also been in jail since 1993... "
Tired? I have been running around for 15 years ... filing lawsuits," the 67-year-old retired civil servant said, choking back tears.
Torture
The government says it uses the law, which also allows authorities to send civilians for military trial, only to target terrorism suspects and drug dealers.
"If you knew the number of sabotage crimes that have been thwarted ... you would have said: 'Thank God the emergency law exists'," Moufid Shehab, a state minister, said this week. Analysts and human rights groups note 27 years of emergency law failed to stop militant attacks such as the bombings that rocked Sinai between 2004 and 2006, killing scores of Egyptians and foreign tourists.
They say the law has contributed to the rising influence of the police in public life and to what they say is systematic torture inside prisons and police stations. The interior ministry says it does not condone such practices and prosecutes officers who torture suspects."The government cannot live without a state of emergency," said Mohamed Zarea, director of the Arab Penal Reform Organisation, which offers free legal aid to detainees.Zarea was a detainee himself.
In 1988, he was kept in custody for 75 days for suspected links with an armed leftist group.
He says he was subjected to "all kinds of torture".
"It was torture that makes you wish you could die," he told Reuters, sitting behind a desk at his office in downtown Cairo.
"All kinds of torture, from beating to electric shocks to sleep deprivation, to being questioned while people next to you are beaten up ... to threats of sexual assault. All kinds." Zarea won a lawsuit against the government granting him 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,900) in compensation for his detention.
He used the money to set up his human rights group.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Egypt extends state of emergency by two years
Egypt on Monday extended a controversial decades-old state of emergency by two years despite pledges to replace it by new legislation, in a move slammed by rights groups as anti-constitutional.Parliament passed the law after a brief debate following a decision by President Hosni Mubarak to extend the state of emergency from June 1, a parliamentary official said.
The state of emergency was imposed in 1981 after the assassination by Islamists of President Anwar Sadat and has been repeatedly renewed since then despite protests from rights groups and regime opponents.
Last year Judicial and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said the state of emergency would end in 2008, even if the new anti-terror law meant to replace it was not ready.
Last year Judicial and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said the state of emergency would end in 2008, even if the new anti-terror law meant to replace it was not ready.
"The state of emergency has for decades been one of the main causes of human rights violations in Egypt," Hafez Abu Sada of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) told AFP.
Egypt's authorities have used the state of emergency to clamp down on political opponents, including the country's largest opposition movement, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, whose members sit in parliament as independents.
"We reject the extension of the state of emergency because there is no constitutional justification," Brotherhood political bureau member Essam al-Aryan told AFP.He said the Brotherhood would now start a public awareness campaign about the law.
On Tuesday the state-backed National Council of Human Rights said there was no longer any basis for renewing the state of emergency. Earlier this month two dozen independent human rights groups also called for the emergency to end, saying it "flies in the face of the comprehensive social, economic and political reforms under way in Egypt."
Press reactions
Political analyst Diaa Rashwan wrote in the independent daily Al-Masry al-Youm on Monday that "10 anti-terrorist laws could have been drafted in the time since Mubarak said he would lift the state of emergency.
Political analyst Diaa Rashwan wrote in the independent daily Al-Masry al-Youm on Monday that "10 anti-terrorist laws could have been drafted in the time since Mubarak said he would lift the state of emergency.
" He called the extension a "crime," while the state-owned Al-Goumhuriya daily stressed the need for stringent security measures after thousands of Gazans forced their way across the frontier into Egypt in January to buy goods.
"Remember what happened when the Palestinians violated our borders... arriving with explosive belts around their waists and with grenades and bullets in their pockets," said an editorial."Was the state supposed to wait for a magistrate's warrant before arresting them?"
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Joint Declaration on World Democracy
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, are leaders with a long-term vision for the planet.
We believe in global democracy as a goal;
we envision a world beyond the absolute sovereignty theory of the nation-state, in which the sovereignty of the world's people is primary.
We expect that the people of the world will someday, perhaps in our lifetimes, demand and achieve a well-governed world democracy.
We further declare that it is time to envision such a goal for humankind; in fact, we see no other long-term means for the survival of our species and of the planet itself.
We therefore call for the careful evolution of our institutions of global governance toward genuine planetary democracy and enforceable global law.
Enduring world peace, economic justice, and environmental protection are not utopian ideals; we declare these to be real and achievable goals.
Humankind can best realize these goals, we believe, by setting an intention for creating a world legislature along with individual accountability before world law.
Above all, we hold the vision of an epochal change in human affairs that will put an end to the war system. Just as slavery has been declared illegal, we call for the complete abolition of war.
TOWARD THESE ENDS, we call on leaders in all walks of life to educate all people everywhere about their innate sovereignty and their right to self-government.
Let us seize the opportunity to reinvent our world by working for the great goal of one world democracy and the rule of global law, by supporting immediate efforts to:
Educate everyone, and especially today's young activists, about the need for global law.We believe that generations to come will realize the imperative of enforceable global law through world democracy.
Support efforts to build awareness of world citizenship and to protect human rights.We envision the day when there will be a universal bill of rights that will protect the rights of all people.
Foster grassroots movements for world democracy, including global political parties.
We encourage the world's people to express their innate sovereignty at the individual and global levels.
Start now to create an advisory world legislature or United Nations Peoples' Assembly.Let's begin to take steps on the way to the long-term goal of a truly representative government for all humanity.
Expand the work of ICC and the International Court of Justice at the Hague.Let's move more deliberately toward a genuine world judiciary that can apply global law to individuals and states.
Learn from regional federations of states such as the United States, Europe, and Africa.We encourage the study of these precedents so that we can build toward the coming federation of all nations.
We know that achieving a world democracy under enforceable law could take much time--and to get there, we must take intermediate evolutionary steps. But we believe that leadership in these times means affirming that our goal represents the best hope of humankind.
THE SIGNATORIES BELOW hereby represent that they wholeheartedly support this declaration, and will work in their spheres of influence to achieve the goals stated herein:
Friday, March 14, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
When we will say no to war ? QANA 2006
Some people use these photos to be evidence of the brutality of war
Some used these images so as not to forget
Some used these images proof against Israel
We use these images to tell the world that the victims of war are always children and women
Some used these images so as not to forget
Some used these images proof against Israel
We use these images to tell the world that the victims of war are always children and women
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Friday, December 28, 2007
Press statement ...(Monitor) condemns police assault Tunisian.The Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the city of Bizerte.
Exposure colleague Ali bin Salim Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, on the morning of the holidays December 20, 2007 in the city of Bizerte to attack by the Tunisian police, while he was prepared to receive the Amaadith friends, a number of police preventing them from entering the headquarters of the Association for the use of force. They were Mr. Ali Ben Salem, aged 77 years, was Doce under the legs, leaving him bodily injury and breaking his glasses. The head of the Territory and the head of the Bizerte and supervisors were present on this outrage, leading to the transfer colleague Ali bin Salim to the hospital situation deplorable.
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) strongly condemns and deplores the attack by the police against Tunisian colleague "Ali Ben Salem" (77 years), Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the city of Bizerte and a number of his fellow members of the Association during a meeting at the headquarters of the Association in Eid Al-Adha holidays to exchange congratulations.
It also demands (Monitor) Tunisian authorities to open an investigation impartial judiciary in the attack and for those responsible, and urge the Tunisian government to curb such attacks and to prevent recurrence and to ensure the necessary protection for human rights defenders and commitment by the International Bill of Human Rights..
Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor)
Information Section January 28, 2007
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) strongly condemns and deplores the attack by the police against Tunisian colleague "Ali Ben Salem" (77 years), Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the city of Bizerte and a number of his fellow members of the Association during a meeting at the headquarters of the Association in Eid Al-Adha holidays to exchange congratulations.
It also demands (Monitor) Tunisian authorities to open an investigation impartial judiciary in the attack and for those responsible, and urge the Tunisian government to curb such attacks and to prevent recurrence and to ensure the necessary protection for human rights defenders and commitment by the International Bill of Human Rights..
Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor)
Information Section January 28, 2007
The United Arab Emirates: Citizens with No Native Country
Cairo on: December 4, 2007The United Arab Emirates: Citizens with No Native Country
the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) follows up the different dimensions and developments of the people "with no nationality" in the Arab gulf states, the phenomenon that has no equivalent in either developed or developing countries. In fact there is no precise estimation of this phenomenon. But this is mainly due to information obscuring imposed by governments.
The "people-with-no-nationality" phenomenon causes several bad effects to both people with and without nationality in these countries. It, therefore, needs to investigate for determining its causes and finding solutions. For causes, it is clear that political reasons, namely religious politics conflicts, lie behind this phenomenon.
As the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) observes this phenomenon, it confirms that it utterly contradicts with all international human rights conventions. "People with no nationality" are lacking identity or legal protection by any state. They are deprived of all rights, freedoms or privileges. While alive in practice, they dead in law. They have no documents and can not document their marriages, properties. They do not even have any properties. In addition, they are deprived of the rights to work, free education, medical care, etc.
In short those people are deprived of the globally acknowledged right to have the nationality of the countries in which they and their ancestors were born. According to the international law, people acquire the nationality of the countries in which they are born or the nationality of their parents or that of the country in which they reside for certain time periods (only fives years in some cases). All these requirements are met by the "people with no nationality" in the United Arab Emirates. The least of requirements is that they have documents that prove that they were citizens of the individual emirates before the political unification. Yet, the federal state did not take these documents seriously. This negation clearly contradicts with the universal declaration of human rights that states in article 15 that "every individual has the right to have a specific nationality and that individuals can not be deprived of the rights to have or change nationality". It also contradicts with article 3/24 of the international covenant on civil and political rights. Furthermore, this negation also conflicts with the federal constitution that "gives all citizens the nationality of the United Arab Emirates according to the law, provides them with the due protection beyond borders in accordance with observed international rules and regulations, and states that nationality can not be dropped unless in the exceptional cases determined by law".
Being moved by the suffering of this big group of people in different gulf Arab states, APHRA requests authorities in the United Arab Emirates to offer effective and decisive solutions to this enduring problem so as to let those people enjoy the rights and freedoms guaranteed by all international human rights conventions, namely by giving them the nationality of the United Arab Emirates.
APHRA also appeals to all concerned Arab and international organizations, mainly United Nations, to join forces to put an end to the suffering of this group of people by applying the international human rights conventions giving them the nationality of the states in which they live.
Finally APHRA asks all human rights organizations all over the world to adopt this issue in the future until these people are given the nationality of the states in which they live.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
An international campaign of solidarity with Mieh Jeribi Ahmad Najib Shabi
Ms. entered Mieh Jeribi, Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party, with Professor Ahmad Najib Shabi, Director of the newspaper stand in an open hunger strike, from Thursday, September 20, 2007.
We are the signatures below:
we affirm our solidarity with the leaders of the Democratic Progressive, and support to the demands of the strikers in order:
1-stop all actions seeking to remove from the Progressive Democratic Party headquarters (central headquarters, and at the headquarters)
2-lifting and control sites experienced by the Democratic Progressive Party to Shbetaha Internet. Also recall that the harassment of the Democratic Progressive, are only part of the general policy to stifle dissenting voices in every opinion and every component of the opposition and independent civil society.
We hold the Tunisian authorities responsible for any deterioration of the health situation of hunger.
Please send signatures, with the name and status at the following address:
TAKE ACTION : Jordan begins monitoring sites like electronic newsletter publications
The assistant general manager of the Printing and Publishing Nabil El Sunday 23-9-2007, the Service will monitor the content of electronic news sites and treated like newspapers, saying that the Chamber "entitled, under the law, follow the content of these sites.
He added that the second article in the Press and Publication Law, which was adopted last May, "known print it all means deployment, which codified the meanings or ideas or words in any way.
He said that El Diwan legislation in the prime minister gave an explanation of the law include the electronic sites and is therefore applicable to the press applies to all means of dissemination of the other.
Publications Act and abrogate the new stop journalists of the investigation, while the Press Syndicate aspire text explicitly abolished imprisonment as other laws including the Penal Code
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
In the first official libyan response : but unfortunately a very negative
Libya is trying to create confusion and division of opinion among the inhabitants of central regions in Yemen.
Yemeni people demands awareness and caution of this sedition and The Yemeni government responded to the claim Libyan blatant interference in the internal affairs of Yemen
source: the losted justice compaign for the mines-victims in yemen
A number of field headquarters of fronts sabotage which started in 1970s and 1980s last in the central regions of the two parts of Yemen met early this week / 14-September with a Libyan diplomat in Sanaa, and yielded meeting on preparations for the Forum on behalf of suspicious affected by the political conflict from the central regions and that the claim compensation to the families of prisoners and exiles on the grounds that the political conflict between the two parts of Yemen and timely settlement of their demand affected administrative and functional as it is happening today in the claims of the southern and eastern provinces
Yemeni people demands awareness and caution of this sedition and The Yemeni government responded to the claim Libyan blatant interference in the internal affairs of Yemen
source: the losted justice compaign for the mines-victims in yemen
A number of field headquarters of fronts sabotage which started in 1970s and 1980s last in the central regions of the two parts of Yemen met early this week / 14-September with a Libyan diplomat in Sanaa, and yielded meeting on preparations for the Forum on behalf of suspicious affected by the political conflict from the central regions and that the claim compensation to the families of prisoners and exiles on the grounds that the political conflict between the two parts of Yemen and timely settlement of their demand affected administrative and functional as it is happening today in the claims of the southern and eastern provinces
Monday, September 3, 2007
Solidarity Picket, a formal protest to the United Nations building in Sanaa ..... letter of appeal to President Muammar Gaddafi
Families of mine victims in Yemen organized a sit Pretendedly front of the United Nations offices in Sanaa on Saturday 1 September 2007 to request the United Nations to the need to speed up the acceptance of the complaint to the Human Rights Council, which was GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION with co-operate with Office of surprised law firm of Legal and consulting together Association for the Defense of Human Rights / aid, in the fifth and the 20th of last August.The demonstration took place, with more than 500 victims of mines along the Defense assigned case number and the means and actors and media personalities such as sit-sponsored Yemeni newspaper candid news to many Yemeni News cover a number of Arab and regional media for the theme of the event.
in other side GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION had sent a letter of appeal to the Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi appeals for the need to speed up action settlement with the defense
to visit our compain on the internet
the losted justice in yemen for mines victems - this web site use arabic language
Saturday, September 1, 2007
a legal note to lybian president al - gazzafi
E-Network. Non-Governmental Non-profit
Date : September 1, 2007
Topic : legal notice
President : Mr Moammar al- Gaddafi President of the Great Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Title : Great Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Web site : http://www.algathafi.org/
E-mail : info@algathafi.org
After Greetings
We the undersigned regrettably inform you that we have applied a formal complaint against you as the official careers and to the Human Rights Council / Geneva. In the fourth and 20th of August last year. 2007. Our appeal to you, and I hope that a genuine legal settlement with the families of those affected include those victims fair compensation and the removal of landmines, which you support and funding to plant in the central regions of the Republic of Yemen.
The official complaint has been submitted to the Human Rights Council allows us as bodies and individuals to make your complaint that has signed the International Covenants on the protection of civil rights and political and social and cultural rights. And the complaint has been strengthened by evidence and material evidence and strong legal and formal certificates of documentary evidence proving direct engagement in the process of laying mines in the areas mentioned.
Mr. President :
The official complaint has been submitted to the Human Rights Council allows us as bodies and individuals to make your complaint that has signed the International Covenants on the protection of civil rights and political and social and cultural rights. And the complaint has been strengthened by evidence and material evidence and strong legal and formal certificates of documentary evidence proving direct engagement in the process of laying mines in the areas mentioned.
Mr. President :
Surely you know that you are sorry about the more than fifty thousand Yemeni damaged due to various mines and that this number is increasing unless you remove the cooperation with the Yemeni government. As we know certainly that litigation procedures negatively affect the status and reputation of the State and yourself regionally and internationally And for this reason we ask you to please the need to speed up action legal settlement established on the basis of :
Need urgent and equitable compensation to the families of victims and those affected
Need urgent and just compensation for those affected (economically) from the owners of the lands
The necessity of cooperation with the Yemeni government to speed up the demining in the central regions Esteemed
Mr. President
We knew how sure your wisdom and deep respect for human rights and certainly recognize the consequences of your case and its implications in the future for all parties. Hoping to hear the quick response from your Excellency
Signatories
1. GANDY HUMAN RIGHTS
2. Association for the Defense of Human Rights / Yemen
2. Association for the Defense of Human Rights / Yemen
3. ALAO law firm consulting legal office / Yemen
4. The Defense / Yemeni lawyers.
On behalf
1750 and the families of victims of mines
Please accept the assurances of respect and appreciation
The first of September of 2007-09-01
The first of September of 2007-09-01
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Did You Know? Scope of the Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Human Rights First was recently cited in a Washington Post’s lead editorial urging policymakers to address the Iraqi refugee crisis. Click here to read it.
Total number of Iraqi refugees
At least 2.2 million, with another 2 million displaced inside Iraq
Number of Iraqis fleeing each day
2,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Jordan
750,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Syria Between
1,000,000 and 1,500,000
Number of Iraqi refugees accepted by the United States in 2007
190
Total number of Iraqi refugees
At least 2.2 million, with another 2 million displaced inside Iraq
Number of Iraqis fleeing each day
2,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Jordan
750,000
Number of Iraqi refugees in Syria Between
1,000,000 and 1,500,000
Number of Iraqi refugees accepted by the United States in 2007
190
Sunday, August 19, 2007
One hundred and three million Arabs under the poverty line and 33 individuals are worth more than the 179 billion dollars
matter of surprise and astonishment at the behavior and actions of some affiliates to the world of wealth, money, who are leading arranging the richest in the world ... These impressive figures ahead of the size of the number of poor people we have in front of the possessions of the wealth of people in the region have increasingly strange and questions arise?
If the figures indicating the number of rich Arabs declared their only value and they have more than estimates? ? ? ? What is the value of the possessions of others Arab rulers declared them on the list or that It is truly staggering figures than advertised hundreds of times did not indicate any report to the wealth of any governor, not Arab Gulf
And the most important questions raised here, and we feel we have the right to send to the concerned .... Where did you get this? ? ? Where any governor GULF such wealth? ? ? Not for theft and looting? ? ? Originally there is the so-called Accountability Office to these countries, if any, is whether or not
As in other Arab countries, the Accounting Office found surveillance or whatever name it in those States, it is meaningless and it is dedicated solely to detect theft and embezzlement junior staff? ?
And I ask myself a question? ? ? If George Bush or Clinton or Helmut Kohl example, or the Prime Minister of Japan, which does not mention his name? ? If they were the leaders of the richest countries in the world, why go out of power as they entered only pension?
Very, very simple difference in our rulers Shoplifters and governors because they like God no one accountable? ? ? For anyone tell me why Wurth any leader of our him or grandmother? ? Not nearly Shi? ? Where have all this wealth? ? ? If the money invested in Wall Street will reap them such wealth
Frequency and three million poor Arab rulers and why poverty has built wealth at the expense of food rights and the future of the Arab helpless one If the poor have stolen loaf news to eat. Been dragged him to prison, accused of terrorism, and even damaging to public safety if steals leader and the ruling Arab That allowed us he photographed himself as Albany, it builds our future and dignity and our borders?
Why keep silent about such news, and why not use it and speak boldly? ? ? Is it not our right to ask governors from where you so? ? Are not worth the savings of the nation and citizens? Did you know my brother citizen you have a share in your governer"s wealth ? Because he stole from you and your children?
Say your Audaciously? ? ? Many of them encourage me via email messages ,,,I thanked But is that enough of you brothers? ? Why are afraid of us to discuss such topics? ? ? Why not translate such news reports and disseminate to the foreign media to expose the rulers and go to the Western countries, for example, goes where large part of the assistance they provide for you and me as a citizenes.
take action now ... Not enough you've read the news
What was published in Asharq Al Awsat, the only declared them without mentioning rulers?
Income Club billions Arabs new 8 miliarders , the number of employers billions Arabs, in the list of the magazine «Forbes» 13th of 2007, which was issued the day before yesterday, to 33 people. Saudi Arabia came in first place with 11 billionaires (though Forbes promised 13, saying Saad Hariri, Ayman Hariri, the Saudis), then Lebanon six miliarders , followed by Kuwait, UAE, Egypt each 4 miliarders .
This is in addition to the Mexican of Lebanese descent industry Mexican man, Carlos Salim, which rose to third place and scored the greatest progress in the last decade achieved through additional 19 billion within a year to reach 49 billion to the wealth. As Squaring British businessman of Syrian descent Simon Halabi Center 194 wealth of 4.3 billion dollars, and British businessman of Iraqi origin to the center Nazmi Ogi 279 amount to $ 3.1 billion, which was 382 last year. Indian and occupied me that CNN Menon, a resident in Amman arrangement 754 wealth amounted to $ 1.3 billion
Characterized Arab List retreat centers owners billions in Saudi Arabia, but the premier event in the list of the region this year, continuing the retreat center Prince Al-Walid Bin Talal and his exit from the list of the richest 10 people in the world. The retreat Saudi prince, 50, the thirteenth place, after it was in the Eighth last year and fifth in 2005, although the wealth in the classification of 2007 rose by 300 million dollars to reach 20.3 billion dollars. It is striking in the new statute also provides money man Saudi Suleiman Bin Abdullah Rajhi who managed to increase their wealth from $ 5.6 billion to $ 11 billion, ahead of the center 80 last year to 37 currently Center. Occupied Saudi businessman active in the oil sector Mohamed vertical position 86, after rising wealth of 1.1 billion dollars, up to eight billion dollars. The income-based Saudi businessman Maan manufacturer to occupy the center 97 a wealth of 7.5 billion dollars
This was followed in the list ranked 99 men Saudi capital Solomon Rajhi wealth amounted to 7.4 billion dollars, but the man money center banks and Saudi Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Rajhi fell to the classification of 188 from 84 last year, also went to the wealth of 4.4 billion dollars $ 6.5 billion previously
The retreat site Saudi businessman Saleh Kamel, an activist in the construction sector, Finance, in addition to the media sector, to 249 from 114 owner as a retreat wealth to 3.5 billion dollars from five billion dollars. This and the decline in classification Saudi businessman Khalid bin Mahfouz and his family to 279 from 214 after losing 100 million of his money to reach the wealth now to 3.1 billion dollars. Followed fall Saudi businessman Mohamed Al Rajhi to 664 from 365 Center wealth amounting to 1.5 billion dollars
He joined the existing Saudi businessman Solomon Algosaibi, who occupied the site 717, a wealth of 1.4 billion dollars, and also joined reparation Mohamed Benaissa, who took arrangement wealth amounting to 891 billion dollars. It succeeded the Sawiris family (which owns the combined 20.4 billion dollars) in 4 miliarders to Egypt, where the site Egyptian businessman Naguib sayroyers significantly from 278 to 62, also rose considerably to the wealth of 10 billion dollars from 2.6 billion dollars. While the retreat center Valle sayroyers activist in the field of communications, who joined the list last year only to 158 from 129, although the wealth rose to five billion dollars from 4.8 billion dollars
Nasif sayroyers also joined the list of the ruling center 226 wealth of 3.9 billion, followed by Sameh sayroyers in the arrangement 664 wealth reached $ 1.5 billion. , Which included six people from Lebanon, and Hariri's family has been most of this year, but Hind Hariri, 23, daughter of the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which was the smallest miliarderes young woman in the world came out of the existing classification of this year. Income new two miliarders to the list from Lebanon, namely Najib Mikati Taha Mikati, ranked 407 Center wealth of $ 2.3 billion each. Forbes estimated wealth of the family of Hariri classified list of this year, which was distributed among his widow, Nazik Hariri, and four sons, at about 6.5 billion dollars. Saad Hariri and occupied 407 Center at $ 2.3 billion, after it occupies 158 arrangement wealth of 4.1 billion dollars last year, then Ayman and Fahd Al-Hariri in the arrangement 618 wealth of 1.6 billion dollars, after they occupy Center 258 the amount of 2.7 billion dollars each in the list of 2006. Nazik Hariri came in the arrangement wealth 891 billion dollars
Kuwait provided 4 miliarders in the classification of this year, but investor status Kuwaiti Nasser Al-Kharafi declined from 29 to 52 respectively, as their wealth declined from 12.4 to 11.5 billion dollars. It also fell classification businessman on behalf of the Kuwaiti Alghanim to 618 from 562 despite the increase in the wealth of 200 million dollars to 1.6 billion dollars. This joined the list Koutaiba Al-Ghanim to occupy the center 618 wealth of 1.6 billion dollars. He returned Kuwaiti businessman Mohamed Sea to the list this year after it emerged in the last list, and came in 717 wealth amounting to $ 1.4 billion
In the Emirates, which also provided 5 employers billions retreat classification investor UAE Abdul Aziz Marmot and his family of 77 to 86, despite the wealth that had risen to eight billion dollars from 6.9 billion dollars. But Abdullah Fatim able to improve his position in a remarkable 287 from 562, having ascended to the wealth of three billion dollars from 1.4 billion last year, also managed to improve Majed Al-signed strongly to move to the center 369 of 746, having succeeded increasing wealth from one billion dollars to 2.5 billion dollars. The Emirati businessman al habtour fell focused from 335 to 369 although the wealth rose from 2.5 to 2.3 billion dollars. As the 120th Mahdi merchants to 891 from 746 and wealth remained unchanged They billion dollars
If the figures indicating the number of rich Arabs declared their only value and they have more than estimates? ? ? ? What is the value of the possessions of others Arab rulers declared them on the list or that It is truly staggering figures than advertised hundreds of times did not indicate any report to the wealth of any governor, not Arab Gulf
And the most important questions raised here, and we feel we have the right to send to the concerned .... Where did you get this? ? ? Where any governor GULF such wealth? ? ? Not for theft and looting? ? ? Originally there is the so-called Accountability Office to these countries, if any, is whether or not
As in other Arab countries, the Accounting Office found surveillance or whatever name it in those States, it is meaningless and it is dedicated solely to detect theft and embezzlement junior staff? ?
And I ask myself a question? ? ? If George Bush or Clinton or Helmut Kohl example, or the Prime Minister of Japan, which does not mention his name? ? If they were the leaders of the richest countries in the world, why go out of power as they entered only pension?
Very, very simple difference in our rulers Shoplifters and governors because they like God no one accountable? ? ? For anyone tell me why Wurth any leader of our him or grandmother? ? Not nearly Shi? ? Where have all this wealth? ? ? If the money invested in Wall Street will reap them such wealth
Frequency and three million poor Arab rulers and why poverty has built wealth at the expense of food rights and the future of the Arab helpless one If the poor have stolen loaf news to eat. Been dragged him to prison, accused of terrorism, and even damaging to public safety if steals leader and the ruling Arab That allowed us he photographed himself as Albany, it builds our future and dignity and our borders?
Why keep silent about such news, and why not use it and speak boldly? ? ? Is it not our right to ask governors from where you so? ? Are not worth the savings of the nation and citizens? Did you know my brother citizen you have a share in your governer"s wealth ? Because he stole from you and your children?
Say your Audaciously? ? ? Many of them encourage me via email messages ,,,I thanked But is that enough of you brothers? ? Why are afraid of us to discuss such topics? ? ? Why not translate such news reports and disseminate to the foreign media to expose the rulers and go to the Western countries, for example, goes where large part of the assistance they provide for you and me as a citizenes.
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Income Club billions Arabs new 8 miliarders , the number of employers billions Arabs, in the list of the magazine «Forbes» 13th of 2007, which was issued the day before yesterday, to 33 people. Saudi Arabia came in first place with 11 billionaires (though Forbes promised 13, saying Saad Hariri, Ayman Hariri, the Saudis), then Lebanon six miliarders , followed by Kuwait, UAE, Egypt each 4 miliarders .
This is in addition to the Mexican of Lebanese descent industry Mexican man, Carlos Salim, which rose to third place and scored the greatest progress in the last decade achieved through additional 19 billion within a year to reach 49 billion to the wealth. As Squaring British businessman of Syrian descent Simon Halabi Center 194 wealth of 4.3 billion dollars, and British businessman of Iraqi origin to the center Nazmi Ogi 279 amount to $ 3.1 billion, which was 382 last year. Indian and occupied me that CNN Menon, a resident in Amman arrangement 754 wealth amounted to $ 1.3 billion
Characterized Arab List retreat centers owners billions in Saudi Arabia, but the premier event in the list of the region this year, continuing the retreat center Prince Al-Walid Bin Talal and his exit from the list of the richest 10 people in the world. The retreat Saudi prince, 50, the thirteenth place, after it was in the Eighth last year and fifth in 2005, although the wealth in the classification of 2007 rose by 300 million dollars to reach 20.3 billion dollars. It is striking in the new statute also provides money man Saudi Suleiman Bin Abdullah Rajhi who managed to increase their wealth from $ 5.6 billion to $ 11 billion, ahead of the center 80 last year to 37 currently Center. Occupied Saudi businessman active in the oil sector Mohamed vertical position 86, after rising wealth of 1.1 billion dollars, up to eight billion dollars. The income-based Saudi businessman Maan manufacturer to occupy the center 97 a wealth of 7.5 billion dollars
This was followed in the list ranked 99 men Saudi capital Solomon Rajhi wealth amounted to 7.4 billion dollars, but the man money center banks and Saudi Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Rajhi fell to the classification of 188 from 84 last year, also went to the wealth of 4.4 billion dollars $ 6.5 billion previously
The retreat site Saudi businessman Saleh Kamel, an activist in the construction sector, Finance, in addition to the media sector, to 249 from 114 owner as a retreat wealth to 3.5 billion dollars from five billion dollars. This and the decline in classification Saudi businessman Khalid bin Mahfouz and his family to 279 from 214 after losing 100 million of his money to reach the wealth now to 3.1 billion dollars. Followed fall Saudi businessman Mohamed Al Rajhi to 664 from 365 Center wealth amounting to 1.5 billion dollars
He joined the existing Saudi businessman Solomon Algosaibi, who occupied the site 717, a wealth of 1.4 billion dollars, and also joined reparation Mohamed Benaissa, who took arrangement wealth amounting to 891 billion dollars. It succeeded the Sawiris family (which owns the combined 20.4 billion dollars) in 4 miliarders to Egypt, where the site Egyptian businessman Naguib sayroyers significantly from 278 to 62, also rose considerably to the wealth of 10 billion dollars from 2.6 billion dollars. While the retreat center Valle sayroyers activist in the field of communications, who joined the list last year only to 158 from 129, although the wealth rose to five billion dollars from 4.8 billion dollars
Nasif sayroyers also joined the list of the ruling center 226 wealth of 3.9 billion, followed by Sameh sayroyers in the arrangement 664 wealth reached $ 1.5 billion. , Which included six people from Lebanon, and Hariri's family has been most of this year, but Hind Hariri, 23, daughter of the late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which was the smallest miliarderes young woman in the world came out of the existing classification of this year. Income new two miliarders to the list from Lebanon, namely Najib Mikati Taha Mikati, ranked 407 Center wealth of $ 2.3 billion each. Forbes estimated wealth of the family of Hariri classified list of this year, which was distributed among his widow, Nazik Hariri, and four sons, at about 6.5 billion dollars. Saad Hariri and occupied 407 Center at $ 2.3 billion, after it occupies 158 arrangement wealth of 4.1 billion dollars last year, then Ayman and Fahd Al-Hariri in the arrangement 618 wealth of 1.6 billion dollars, after they occupy Center 258 the amount of 2.7 billion dollars each in the list of 2006. Nazik Hariri came in the arrangement wealth 891 billion dollars
Kuwait provided 4 miliarders in the classification of this year, but investor status Kuwaiti Nasser Al-Kharafi declined from 29 to 52 respectively, as their wealth declined from 12.4 to 11.5 billion dollars. It also fell classification businessman on behalf of the Kuwaiti Alghanim to 618 from 562 despite the increase in the wealth of 200 million dollars to 1.6 billion dollars. This joined the list Koutaiba Al-Ghanim to occupy the center 618 wealth of 1.6 billion dollars. He returned Kuwaiti businessman Mohamed Sea to the list this year after it emerged in the last list, and came in 717 wealth amounting to $ 1.4 billion
In the Emirates, which also provided 5 employers billions retreat classification investor UAE Abdul Aziz Marmot and his family of 77 to 86, despite the wealth that had risen to eight billion dollars from 6.9 billion dollars. But Abdullah Fatim able to improve his position in a remarkable 287 from 562, having ascended to the wealth of three billion dollars from 1.4 billion last year, also managed to improve Majed Al-signed strongly to move to the center 369 of 746, having succeeded increasing wealth from one billion dollars to 2.5 billion dollars. The Emirati businessman al habtour fell focused from 335 to 369 although the wealth rose from 2.5 to 2.3 billion dollars. As the 120th Mahdi merchants to 891 from 746 and wealth remained unchanged They billion dollars
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