NOVANEWS By: Mary Pearson ‘Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.’ Harriet Tubman Belated International Women’s Day Greetings! ‘I swear I […]
NOVANEWS Al-Akhbar newspaper devotes a special section (edited by young Lebanese feminist women) for International Women’s Day. Posted by As’ad at 7:56 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com
NOVANEWS “Despite a February 15th United Nations review of its human-rights practices, Iran’s government has not curbed its censorship and repression of women’s rights activists. The morning after the review was held, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a […]
NOVANEWS Freedom House is the least qualified organization to speak about freedoms, especially in the Middle East because they are politically tainted. I am too sick with a terrible cold to respond to everything here […]
NOVANEWS “As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Iman Muhammad Hassan Ghazawwi marked her ninth year in Israeli custody on Monday. Ghazawwi, 33, was sentenced to 13 years, accused of planting an explosive device near […]
NOVANEWS “Palestinian women in particular continue to face extremely difficult circumstances due to human rights violations perpetrated against them. Violations of women’s rights peaked during the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, which took […]
NOVANEWS “Unlike other Arab Gulf women, Saudi women still face an uphill struggle to gain political and social rights and need the consent of male guardians for almost everything, including obtaining a passport and travel. […]
NOVANEWS The caption reads: “A Palestinian militant clashes with an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City on February 28. Photo: Isranet” (thanks Hussein) Posted by As’ad at 6:55 AM www.angryarab.blogspot.com
NOVANEWS Here he comes. Ethan Bronner: chief propagandist for the Israeli occupation army, no matter how many war crimes it perpetrates. This article is noteworthy. The New York Times, you see, covers Palestinians as victims–but […]
NOVANEWS This headline in the New York Times talks about US helping “Somalia.” Back in 1982, when the civil war raging in Lebanon, the US sent troops to Lebanon to help the right-wing fascist militias […]