Documents on Middle East/N. Africa
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  • Press release
    Feb 8, 2010

    The growing harshness of attacks by Israeli government officials on nongovernmental organizations poses a real threat to civil society in Israel.

  • Press release
    Feb 8, 2010

    Bahrain needs to take urgent steps to end torture and ill-treatment of security suspects during interrogation.

  • Press release
    Feb 7, 2010

    Israel has failed to demonstrate that it will conduct thorough and impartial investigations into alleged laws-of-war violations by its forces during last year's Gaza conflict. An independent investigation is needed if perpetrators of abuse, including senior military and political officials who set policies that violated the laws of war, are to be held accountable.

  • Press release
    Feb 3, 2010

    New York University's announcement today that it will require all companies to respect the rights of laborers building its campus in the United Arab Emirates is a significant step toward protecting migrant workers there.

  • Q & A
    Feb 3, 2010

    On February 3, 2010, the International Criminal Court (ICC) appeals chamber decided to reject the standard used to exclude genocide charges in the ICC's arrest warrant issued on March 4, 2009, for President Omar al-Bashir on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The warrant raises a number of important issues.

  • Press release
    Feb 3, 2010

    Libya’s moves in late January, 2010, to block access to at least seven independent and opposition Libyan web sites based abroad and to YouTube is a disturbing step away from press freedom.

  • Press release
    Feb 1, 2010

    Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from Jordanians of Palestinian origin.

  • Commentary
    Jan 29, 2010

    Dubai sees and markets itself as a tolerant cosmopolitan city where east meets west: where occidental comforts and luxury sit cosily and apparently easily with the Arab-Islamic culture. As many visitors to the UAE notice (and have mentioned to me), alcohol is readily available in hotels and restaurants. Unmarried couples often openly share hotel rooms, and visitors to the UAE say they are rarely, if ever, troubled by the authorities over either issue.

  • Press release
    Jan 28, 2010

    Hamas's latest claim that its rocket attacks against Israel are not war crimes is factually and legally wrong.

  • Commentary
    Jan 28, 2010

    Diamonds from the Marange fields of eastern Zimbabwe are mined under highly abusive conditions – the latest “blood diamonds” of the twenty-first century. To its credit, the Israeli government has tried to put pressure on Zimbabwe to improve these conditions. In the coming year, as chair of the global group that monitors the diamond industry, Israel will have the opportunity to do even more.

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