This Week in Palestine: Human Rights in Palestine

[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]

http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=4190&edid=227&ed=227

....Every time my children Basil and Taima cry because they are hungry or cold, I am immediately transported to Al-Yarmouk, and I imagine toddlers my children’s age crying endlessly, not having eaten for days, or even worse, not crying at all as they slowly slip into eternal silence. The world remains oblivious, uninterested, and unmoved by the Palestinian plight. And our cause is often diluted to a situation of two neighbours unable to live together, which could not be farther from the truth. This is why an issue on human rights had to be produced. This Week in Palestine’s main mission is to document and celebrate Palestine rather than mourn her, but this issue is far from celebratory. Nor is it mournful. If anything it is a solid documentation on the status of human rights in Palestine. We cover everything: prisoners, women, children, business, and human rights. We share the world’s pain on losing Nelson Mandela, as we also lost one of our own human rights champions, Eyad Sarraj. This issue is serious, well written, and heavy. It need not be taken lightly. However, you will, no doubt, feel a few rays of hope shimmering somewhere within its folds.

So read on. And could someone please send a copy to Scarlett Johansson!

Riyam Kafri AbuLaban
Content Editor

Human Rights in Palestine

• Palestine’s New United Nations Status Brings Human Rights Obligations
  By Mutaz M. Qafisheh

 
• The Rights of Palestinian Children
  By June Kunugi and Monica Awad

 
• Let It Out
  By Laila Joseph

 
• Eulogy for Dr. Eyad Sarraj

 
• Palestinian Women between the Hammer of Colonialism and the Anvil of Patriarchy Stateless and Invisible
  By Maha Abu-Dayyeh

 
• Social Security Is a Human Right
  By Mounir Kleibo

 
• The Status of Human Rights in Palestine
  By Randa Siniora

• Artist of the Month
  Amer Shomali

 
• Book of the Month
  Golda Slept Here

 
• Exhibition Review
  Interstice

 
• Film Review
  Suspended Times

 
• Personality of the Month
  Mamdouh Aker

 
• Picturesque Palestine
  Picturesque Palestine

The Offices of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in East Jerusalem forcefully closed by Israel in 2001. Photo by George Azar.