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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: hebrew university + human rights + iraq  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)


Times Online
On its 60th birthday, Israel is still a Jekyll and Hyde nation
Times Online, UK - May 10, 2008
The country has absorbed millions of Jewish refugees from around the world and moulded them into a new nation, with a vibrant Hebrew language and culture ...
:. Pope in USA: Dialog and Reconciliation for Peace
Kashmir Watch, Pakistan - Apr 26, 2008
The center-piece of his visit was his address to the UN where he highlighted this year?s 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ...
[Interview] Remembrance of the Naqba
Indymedia.be, Belgium - Apr 29, 2008
Badil is defending refugees rights. It deals with the right to return as a human right. It uses international and European human rights instruments and ...
([ISRAEL/INTERNATIONAL] IHC News, 7 May 2008)
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription), NY - May 7, 2008
In March, Switzerland was the single European member of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council to vote in favor of a resolution condemning Israeli military ...
In the comfort of your own home
Ha'aretz, Israel - Apr 21, 2008
These posts were published following the closure of the Physician for Human Rights (PHR) non-profit's volunteer-run clinic for refugees in Tel Aviv. ...

Canada Free Press
Michael Ignatieff in the lion?s den
Canada Free Press, Canada - Apr 15, 2008
Canada should take no part in human rights conferences that single out Israel for condemnation and ignore the human rights abuses of others. ...

Gather.com
Reflections on the Road: Two Countries and a Friendship Lost (II)
Gather.com, MA - Apr 16, 2008
"If you want to write about human rights, go to fucking Iraq." I walked her to the bus stop on the other side of the square, from which she would catch the ...
The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric v. Reality
Global Politician, NY - Apr 16, 2008
Indeed, as Hebrew University economics professor Nadav Halevi stated at a UN conference in Cairo: "The Palestinian economy needs the Israeli one more than ...
Transcript: Rev. Wright at the National Press Club
FOXNews - Apr 28, 2008
I take and trace the theology of the black church back to the prophets in the Hebrew Bible and to its last prophet, in my tradition, the one we call Jesus ...
Number of displaced ?highest? in a decade
Gulf Times, Qatar - Apr 17, 2008
But beyond the displacement, these refugees were also ?too frequently victims of the gravest human rights abuses?, facing continuing attacks as well as ...
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Citizenship and Stratification in an Ethnic Democracy -
G Shqfir, Y Peled - Stratification in Israel: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender, 2004 - books.google.com
... The Iran-Iraq war and the recasting of US aid from ... basic laws"): Freedom of Occupation
and Human Dignity and Freedom, designed to anchor civil rights in a ...

[BOOK] Peace Agreements and Human Rights -
C Bell - 2000 - books.google.com
... for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ... Rights Committee; Law
Faculty, University of Cape Town ... lack of democracy and human rights abuses are ...

[BOOK] A grammar of Egyptian Aramaic -
T Muraoka, B Porten - 1998 - brill.nl
... more than 100 times in the Hebrew Bible are ... Ministry, Faculty of Theology, at the
University of Winnipeg ... the titles in the field of Human Rights & Humanitarian ...

US Foreign Policy and Rogue States -
B Rubin - Middle East Review of International Affairs, 1999 - meria.idc.ac.il
... Hebrew University professor Yehezkel Dror even coined the phrase ... in joining the
anti-Iraq coalition in ... regime (subversion in Bosnia; human rights violations in ...

[PDF] From the chair -
R Johnston - Patent NumberUSD 420520 - columbia.edu
... Herodotus;? Gayil Talshir (Hebrew University), ?Citizenship beyond ... of Law, Emory
University), ?Abortion from ... the Morality of Human Rights;? Mary Sigler ...

[BOOK] NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Curious Grapevine
W Korey - 1998 - books.google.com
... in serving as the "curious grapevine" that has made human rights a vital ... Fortunately
I had the assistance of several gifted university students who explored a ...

[BOOK] Human Rights Standards and the Responsibility of Transnational Corporations
MK Addo - 1999 - books.google.com
... with the Danish Centre for Human Rights and is a ... candidate, Global Security Programme,
at Cambridge University. ... 1990-1) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

The War against Iraq and International Order: From Bull to Bush 1 -
G Press-Barnathan - International Studies Review, 2004 - Blackwell Synergy
... and steady opposition to the US occupation of Iraq in Iraq itself, in the ... Hussein's
regime was not brutal and did not consistently violate human rights (as is ...

Language rights and language justice in -
ED Faingold - Language Problems & Language Planning, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
... Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit ... bridge
University Press. ... (eds.), Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic ...

[BOOK] The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands
MH Shulewitz - 1999 - books.google.com
... adviser to many think-tanks and human rights organizations in ... the former French
Ambassador to Iraq; my former ... a former lecturer at the Hebrew University and an ...

Source: Google Scholar

Latest US policy in Iraq can lead to human rights abuses says Hebrew University researcher

Jerusalem, Dec. 12, 2007 – U.S. policy in Iraq courting tribal leaders may be yielding positive results in combating al-Qaida and stabilizing the country, but may also be repeating British policy of the previous century which led to severe human rights abuses, particularly against women, says a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In an article being released in conjunction with Human Rights Week, now being marked around the world, Dr. Noga Efrati, head of the Iraq research group at the Hebrew University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, reviews British tribal policy in Iraq from 1914-1932, during which Britain first occupied the country and then (from 1920) ruled it under mandate authority. Her article on the subject appears in a new book, Britain and the Middle East, to be published later this month

The British, who came to Iraq during the First World War in order to defend their interests in the region, sought to revive a disintegrating tribal system in order to control the vast rural areas of the country. To accomplish this, they appointed sheikhs as tribal leaders, granting them wide discretionary powers, including the settling of disputes via “tribal law.” This had an adverse effect particularly on women.

“Under the British mandate, rural women – the majority of women in Iraq – were not constructed as citizens of a modern state whose rights and liberties should be protected, but as tribal possessions, abandoned and left outside state jurisdiction,” Dr. Efrati writes in her article. Among other things, this meant that women could be offered in marriage to settle disputes or be forced to marry within their family. Even more serious was that the state had essentially legitimized "honor" murders.

The British maintained a “blind eye” toward these customs even though they were incompatible with both Islamic and Iraqi criminal law. "Tribal justice" could not be undermined lest it weaken the powers of the sheikhs who were serving British interests. Only in 1958, with the overthrow of the “old regime,” was the tribal justice system annulled. Even so, these practices did not disappear entirely and even achieved renewed recognition under Saddam Hussein, notes Dr. Efrati.

Like the British of yesterday, the Americans today are increasingly depending on local leaders to restore order. However, in its effort to break the Sunni insurgency, stabilize the country and bring about political progress, the Bush Administration should learn from the mistakes of its predecessors, says Dr. Efrati, and be aware of the severe consequences that will arise by leaving the administration of "tribal" affairs in the hands of local leaders. If women are again to become “tribal property” this will be yet another strike against their human rights; the very rights the U.S. set out to defend when it went to war.

 
 
 
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