Some 250 people were arrested in New York alone, many of them as trouble flared near the stock exchange. Thousands of demonstrators have marched across New York’s Brooklyn Bridge in one of several US rallies of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Seven officers and 10 protesters were injured during the day, the New… Read More Cruel regimes will slide into chaos and lawlessness
20 percent of Israeli families – some 1.7 million people – live in poverty. This is according to a report released on Thursday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The number for poor Israelis includes 873,000 children, about a third of the country’s population under the age of 18. Although the numbers are distressingly high,… Read More Report: Poverty in Israel still a major problem
Syria is chosen to be the Arab representative on the UNESCO committee the deals with issues relating to the implementation of human rights. A short time after UNESCO, the UN’s organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member despite strong U.S. and Israeli opposition, it is now Syria’s turn to… Read More Syria defender of human rights in UNESCO
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