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The life of refugees is one of many hardships and difficulties, having to face the daily struggle for survival their lives are exacerbated by numerous factors. In Maria Holt's...
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In her novel Clemency Burton-Hill asks if love can put back together what the world has torn apart. This question is explored as she tells the story of a...
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The United Nations Human Rights Council announced last week the formation of a commission to investigate the most recent Israeli attack on Gaza, Operation Protective Edge. The panel will...
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Protestors, activists, human rights campaigners, indeed anyone who seems to care about social justice has taken to the streets in recent weeks to demonstrate against the ongoing Israeli injustices....
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The Israeli army is currently waging a cold blooded campaign against the Gaza Strip, the third of its kind in less than six years. As thousands of Palestinians are...
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Whilst Palestine was the main theme of the Middle East debates at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton this year, Ed Miliband and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander repeatedly...
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The Liberal Democrat Party conference opened with an international question and answer session that touched on the topic that would come to dominate the conference's international focus – Syria....
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Chaired by former foreign associate editor of the Guardian, Victoria Brittain, the speakers Mahmoud Zaware and Sami Abou Shehadeh talked about their lives in Israel and the...
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The EU-Israel Association Agreement is the legal framework upon which relations between Israel and the European Union are based. It was signed in 1995 and came into effect in...
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The Israeli government sets a state budget which is allocated to all sectors of society. Claims of economic discrimination are rife given the disparity in living conditions between Palestinian...
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Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating...
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FACT SHEET As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing...
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The imprisonment of Palestinian children is a common feature of Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Defence for Children International (DCI) estimates that since 2000 around 7,500 Palestinian children...
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Illegal settlements continue to be built across the West Bank and bring with them even more problems, including increasing incidents of settler violence. The illegal settlers colonising the West...
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The ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, in place since the 2006 democratic election of Hamas, has been condemned widely by international figures, from British politicians to UN representatives....
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Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Affairs High Representative, remains the only foreign official to have met with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his detention. Shortly after the coup...
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After the events of the Arab Spring, observers in Europe and America turned to watch Tunisia's development. The consensus was that if Tunisia could make a successful democratic transition...
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With the official death toll continuing to rise and sources within the Muslim Brotherhood estimating that thousands of Egyptians were killed in the massacres at Rabaa Al-Adawiyya and Al-Nahda...
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If one takes his or her information about the Muslim Brotherhood solely from the media reports coming out of Egypt today, he or she could be forgiven for thinking...
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The Egyptian media has done little to restore its image since the removal of President Morsi, smears against the president and the Muslim Brotherhood have been par for the...
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The arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood's spokesman, Gehad El-Haddad, had the hallmarks of a kidnapping rather than a conventional arrest. His arrest in Cairo on Tuesday, along with two...
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The failure to uphold Britain's obligations towards universal jurisdiction were demonstrated this week when Tzipi Livni met with Foreign Secretary William Hague in London and managed to avoid arrest...
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Judicial Review of Administrative Detentions in the Israeli Supreme Court, by Shiri Krebs Vanderbilt Journal of Transitional Law, Vol. 45, No. 3, May 2012 Shiri Krebs is currently a...
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Earlier this year year London played host to the highest ranking female politician in the Arab world, her position made possible by the advent of the Arab Spring –...
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The Egyptian army and Israel have grown much closer in the weeks since the coup d'etat. In a Ha'aretz report, Amos Harel, suggested that the Egyptian and Israeli relationship...
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In a House of Lords debate on the plight of Palestinian citizens of Israel ("Arab Israelis") called by the Lord Bishop of Exeter, peers from across the political spectrum...