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Opinion | “All Human Beings are Born Free” By Feras, Gaza, Palestine

Author: By Feras, Gaza, Palestine
Published: July 3, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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“All Human Beings are Born Free” reads the title of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in Paris (France) on 10 Dec. 1948, voted for by 48 countries, with 8 abstentions but not a single country who voted against it. The Declaration’s 30 articles include the right to dignity, liberty, equality, the right […]

Opinion | Penal Code 1943, Article 534, at the heart of the uprising, by Ibrahim A, Lebanon

Author: By Ibrahim A, Lebanon
Published: June 23, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Democracy, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Lebanon, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Tags: beirut, justice, LGBTQ, LGBTQrights, Penal Code, uprising

In 1943, Lebanon gained its independence from the French. Originally enacted by French colonizers, article 534 was put while drafting the new Lebanese constitution, stating that any ‘sexual intercourse against nature’ is a crime under the sovereignty of the Lebanese government, with a penalty of up to one-year imprisonment. Such a vague law with no […]

The eggs hunt, by Nili Fainguelernt, Israel

Author: Opinion | By Nili Fainguelernt, Israel
Published: June 18, 2020
Categories: in Current Events, English, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: corona virus, Covid-19, jerusalem, lockdown, quarantine, storytelling, vegan

The days of Corona, a global plague that paralyzed the world. Restless cities have become desolate, massive economies are at risk of collapsing, and it is felt everywhere. Israel’s tempo and atmosphere are the Prime Minister’s daily speech, the countless articles published in all the newspapers and in the alerts that news applications provide notifying […]

Opinion | Between Two Extremes, By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel

Author: By Fitnat Waked, Palestine-Israel
Published: June 9, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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Tags: Arab Israeli, Arabs and Jews, coexistence, Israely society, Palestinians of Israel, Shared society

Amid the struggle for recognition, acceptance, respect and the conflict with their own identities, Palestinian citizens of Israel need to find the middle ground. The middle ground is a place where Palestinian Israeli citizens live with a balance between their heritage and history, and the need and want to integrate and flourish within Israeli society. Despite the […]

Opinion| The Shadow Pandemic alongside Covid-19: the case of Morocco, by Rima Ahsissene, Morocco

Author: By Rim Ahsissene, Morocco
Published: May 14, 2020
Categories: in Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: corona, Covid-19, domestic violence, feminicide, pandemic, violence against women

The United Nations calls the ongoing increase in domestic violence a “shadow pandemic” adjacent to COVID-19. The UNFPA which stands for the U.N Sexual and Reproductive Health agency conducted a research and recently disclosed that every three months of lockdown can lead to 15 million more cases of domestic violence than the average that would […]

Covid-19: A lesson to learn. By Collins Osariemen Omokaro, Nigeria

Author: By Collins Osariemen Omokaro, Nigeria
Published: April 22, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Current Events, English, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: africa, corona virus, Covid-19, health, nigeria, pandemic

We are considered living entities because we possess life, we are born and then we die. In between, we are able to breathe, eat, move, reproduce, excrete, and grow. Sometime in-between these activities, we are forced to ask ourselves what the essence of our lives is. We ask ourselves the big question – what is […]

Opinion | We need more Women in Health and Science, by Amira, Palestine

Author: Amira Sublaban
Published: February 19, 2020
Categories: in Civil Activism, Current Events, Development, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine
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Tags: education, emancipation, Science, women

When I first applied for my Bachelor’s degree in Medical Imaging at Al Quds University, I was honestly taken aback by the number of females majoring in the scientific field. I was under the impression that the field was over filled with the male community given the fact that some females are encouraged to take […]

Opinion| Unpopular Thoughts About Peace, by M, Syria

Author: By M, Syria
Published: February 10, 2020
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Syria
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Tags: Arab World, Deal of the Century, Dealofthecentury, Middle East voices, trump, US peace deal

Last Tuesday, President Trump released his “deal of the century” for Middle East peace. I couldn’t help but share with you my thoughts loudly. But who am I speaking to? Maybe to the Palestinians in the first place, because the ball of peace now is in their court. Why? Perhaps to understand, it […]

Opinion | The Isolation of West Bank Palestinian Women by Aida Zsófia, Palestine

Author: Aida Zsófia, Palestine
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Recently, the murder of Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian girl from Bethlehem turned the spotlight on the situation of Palestinian women, the spatial isolation of them in the West Bank and the phenomena standing behind it. Generally, with regards to the situation of the Palestinian women there are two determining arguments. Some people might say […]

Opinion | SHE FOR SHE: Together Stronger to Achieve Gender Equality by Iness, Algeria

Author: Iness, Algeria
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Algeria, Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Identity, Opinion and Analysis, Tolerance
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Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but also a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. It consists of equal access to opportunities, regardless of gender. Nowadays and despite all the developments the world is witnessing, all the feminist movements, human rights campaigns and the massive changes that have been realized […]

Opinion | Do Right by Those who are Already a Part of Us by Inbal, Israel

Author: Inbal Baron, Israel
Published: December 22, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Sudan, Tolerance, כללי
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A week before the September elections, ynet published an article focusing on the policies of the various political parties concerning the immigration issue. Representing the Likud party in the article, was May Golan, who had led the struggle to deport African asylum seekers (“infiltrators”) and who became an MK in the period between the April […]

Opinion | The Real deal of the century – Mondial 2022 and a regional emergency climate and peace plan by Matai, Israel

Author: Matai Ben Aharon, Israel
Published: December 15, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Environment, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Tolerance
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Today it is known that global warming is a fact. The latest alarming reports by the IPCC (Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change) and the IPBES(Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) are suggesting , alongside civil protest movements, cities and countries, that the world is now in an actual climate emergency. Still the main contributor to this climate crisis, […]

Opinion | The Time to Ban Nuclear Weapons is Now by Tomas, Sweden

Author: Tomas, Sweden
Published: December 15, 2019
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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In 2017, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the Nobel Peace Price ”for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition on such weapons”. The treaty referred to by the Norwegian Nobel Committee […]

Opinion | Morocco, Who’s Trying to Suffocate Free Media? by Driss, Morocco

Author: Driss, Morocco
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Current Events, Democracy, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis
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Moroccans theses days have forgotten about the new government reshuffle. People have lost faith in the actual El Othmani’s cabinet, which is considered as the worst in the history of the kingdom. Now, they are focusing on the arrest of Hajar Rissouni sentenced to a year in prison having an “illegal abortion” and “sex outside […]

Opinion | Women in Libya: Caught between Hope and the Civil War by Eman, Libya

Author: Eman, Libya
Published: December 9, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Development, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Libya, Opinion and Analysis, כללי
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Women in Libya who are trying to find a job are facing multiple challenges, and the civil war is just one of them. Staying safe, working far off from the places of the conflict, finding a job near the home way, and many other conditions women workers in Tripoli finding themselves set as a must […]

Opinion | The Right of Children in Israel to go to School is Beyond Right and Left by Manya, Israel

Author: Manya Kagan, Israel
Published: October 31, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, Development, Education, English, Human Rights, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Tolerance
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In today’s Israeli reality, nationalism has become incompatible with child rights. Israel is a country ridden with conflicts and divisions between different groups, but what I feel is the most painful and problematic social-political rift is that between the ‘liberal’ left and the ‘conservative’ right. Each of these sides has picked a set of values […]

Opinion | Muslim Women and the Hijab : To Save or not to Save by Rima ahsissene, Morocco

Author: By Rima ahsissene, Morocco
Published: October 31, 2019
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Religion, Tolerance
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Hijab: the headscarf worn by some Muslim women Last week, in France a mother accompanying her son on a field trip in Dijon was publicly and loudly asked to remove her Hijab by a far-right politician of the local assembly[i]. And last month, a teacher in a school in Montreal had two choices either remove […]

Opinion | Tunisian Elections: Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea by Nourjahen Jemaa Gara-Ali, Tunisia

Author: Nourjahen Jemaa Gara-Ali, Tunisia
Published: September 17, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Politics, Tunisia
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On the International Day of Democracy, September 15th, Tunisia had its Presidential Elections. Voters went to their polling locations to give their voices to the person they trust most. However, voter turnout reached only 45,02% despite 1 million people registering to vote in the months leading to the elections, according to the Independent High Authority […]

Le changement climatique et l’énergie : Enjeux et Ambitions by Sara, Morocco

Author: Sara AMAR, Morocco
Published: September 16, 2019
Categories: in Development, Environment, French, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: changement climatique, énergie, énergie fossile, Maroc

Le changement climatique et les énergies fossiles Les combustibles fossiles ont une large utilisation dans divers domaines d’activités. Les plus populaires sont la production d’électricité, les carburants de transport et la fabrication des produits comme les plastiques. Autres applications méconnus mais très fréquents sont dans le secteur des cosmétiques et voir même des médicaments. L’utilisation […]

Opinion | Israeli Elections: The Fallacy of the Biggest Party by Itamar Hauser, Israel

Author: Itamar Hauser, Israel
Published: September 15, 2019
Categories: in Democracy, English, Identity, Israel, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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For the first time in its history, Israel will go for a second election to parliament on September 17th, 2019, after the last elections’ results, from April 2019, and the following negotiations between the parties did not yield a 61-strong majority coalition in a 120 seat parliament. Personally, I used to be more active during […]

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