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- Narratives Under Siege: Harvesting in Hope
On a hot afternoon during the month of Ramadan, there are few better places to be than resting beneath the shade of an orchard of guava trees, with the scent of fresh ripening fruit wafting around you. Farmer Sa’id Al-Agha sits quietly, his eyes resting on his fruit trees. ‘My father and my grandfather both [...]
- CARE Togo: The Prevention and Rehabilitation of Exploited Children
It could be called one of Africa’s tragic historic ironies. Centuries after the last slave had been put into bondage and sold to Latin and North America as well as the Caribbean on Africa’s infamous slave coast, which are nowadays the shores of Togo and Ghana; what has been called the twenty century equivalents of [...]
- Olivia Ward: Ten Worst Countries For Women
The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty. But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance [...]
- The White Man’s Burden
Arguably, the strong aid pessimism that persisted during the 1980s and 1990s had faded a little at the turn of this century. In 2000, at the Millennium Summit at the UN Headquarters (the only UN gathering in which all heads of state were present) all governments agreed upon the Millennium Development Goals as a grand [...]
- Disengagement, Two Years On
Two years ago, Israel completed a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. We all remember the intense media campaign shamelessly portraying the settlers as dispossessed victims of a bold move for peace. Among others, Harvard economist Sara Roy argued that Israel’s version of disengagement would bring disaster to an already desperate Gaza. Today, we are [...]
- Comment: Blocking Blair
I wrote this last month and submitted it to the New York Times, LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle among others—all without a positive reply. * * * Easing into his new position as Special Envoy to the Middle-East, Tony Blair has wasted no time in pursuing a break in the ever-moribund peace process. Israeli [...]
- Comment: Has Gaza Not Suffered Enough?
Since the 2005 unilateral disengagement: Dozens of development projects have been quashed by the total closure of Gaza’s borders, Palestinian industries are now unable to access foreign markets, Israeli banks have cut business ties with Gaza’s banks, Palestinian students are unable to continue their studies outside of Gaza, human rights workers are refused permission to [...]
