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Displaced Palestinian mother: 'My 8-month-old has phosphorus burns'
MEMO correspondent, Mohammed Asad, spoke to a Palestinian mother in Gaza who lost 6 members of her family, including her husband and her daughter in Israel's bombing of designated 'safe zones'. She tells MEMO how she has been displaced four times since October 2023 and now has nowhere to go. ‘I have my 8-month-old son with me who is injured. He has phosphorus burns,’ she says.
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Israel draft bill designates UNRWA a terrorist organisation
The Israeli Knesset’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved a draft bill that...
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Why is a global superpower under the influence of the tiny Zionist state?
On the world stage, the United States of America is the only country that...
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2023, the year displaced people broke all records: MEMO in Conversation with Ivana Hajzmanova
Conflict and violence in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and occupied Palestine drove the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around the world to 75.9 million at the end of 2023. This is a new record, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The body’s global monitoring manager explains the driving forces behind internal displacement and discusses both wars and conflicts and the natural disasters forcing people away from their homes.
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The Global Tribunal on Palestine is set to begin its work
Since the announcement in early March of the establishment of the Global Tribunal on Palestine (GTP) by five human rights NGOs based in Geneva, efforts have been underway to ensure the success of this event. Dozens of jurists, lawyers, judges, historians and philosophers are taking part. MEMO has been following this event closely since its inception. We reached out to the preparatory committee coordinator of the GTP, Dr Haytham Manna, to inquire about the progress of these efforts and to provide us with an update on the court’s formation, process — and anticipated outcomes — twenty days before the meeting scheduled for next month. MEMO: Since the beginning of the century, you have been involved in organising several “courts of […]
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The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India
In 2014, Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won India’s 16th general election and, among huge swathes of the country’s population as well as the international community, there was great concern about what a Modi India would look like. Aside from concerns over his role during the Gujarat riots in 2002, Modi’s platform was seen as illiberal, right-leaning populist, anti-establishment and anti-expert. Many wondered whether ideology would rule the day or competency and expertise would. The reality that unfolded was much more complex than what many expected at the time and Anuradha Sajjanhar’s The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India argues that, while the experts and technocrats of the pre-2014 establishment were replaced and, despite […]
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