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UN Press Release:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20666&Cr=child&Cr1=#
20 November 2006 – Government forces, rebel groups, armed militia and mercenaries operating in conflicts in at least 12 countries recruit children to serve as soldiers or are responsible for murdering, torturing and committing sexual crimes against them, according to a new report from Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The report on children and armed conflict calls on the Security Council to maintain its pressure on those parties recruiting and using child soldiers to draw up time-bound action plans to end such behaviour.
Mr. Annan recommends that all countries which are party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child take specific measures to strengthen their protection of children, starting by signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the convention on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 8:05 pm
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from HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
(New York, November 27, 2006) – The 14 armed groups and two governments that refused repeated UN demands to stop using child soldiers should be subject to sanctions, Human Rights Watch said today. Since 2002, these “persistent violators” have been identified in four reports from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for violating international standards prohibiting the recruitment and use of child soldiers. The Security Council is to debate the 2006 report tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 7:56 pm
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UN Press Release: http://www.un.org/children/conflict/pr/2006-11-28t…
The report lists parties, which recruit or use children as armed combatants. It also reports on five other grave abuses and violations against children in armed conflict as well as on the monitoring and reporting mechanism implemented in seven pilot countries pursuant to resolution 1612 (2005).
Six country reports are to be examined in 2006 by the Security Council Working Group namely Burundi, Cote D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. For the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan, recommendations of concrete actions the Security Council can take to protect children have already been made to the Council. “It has enhanced constructive dialogue, at all levels, with the member-states concerned for the benefit of the war-affected children,” confirms Radhika Coomaraswamy in her statement to the Security Council. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 7:46 pm
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published in The Jordan Times, November 30, 2006
When the emperor arrives, the welcoming dignitaries endeavour to keep out of sight and hearing any child who might point out that he has no clothes. So, too, the arrival of US President George W. Bush in Amman is an occasion for sweeping unpleasant realities under the rug.
One of the most uncomfortable of those realities both for the US president and his Jordanian hosts is the existence of more than half a million refugees who have fled persecution and violence as a consequence of Bush’s war in next door Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 7:00 pm
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By Evelyn Gordon, Jerusalem Post, November 29, 2006
Virtually not a day has passed recently without some famous person declaring that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the key to solving all the problems of the Muslim world – from Kofi Annan (“As long as the Palestinians live under occupation… so long will passions everywhere be inflamed”) through Henry Kissinger (“a restarted Palestinian peace process should play a significant role” in resolving the Iranian nuclear crisis) to Tony Blair (an Israeli-Palestinian settlement is “the core” of any effort to resolve other Middle East problems and defeat “global extremism.”)
It is astonishing that so many intelligent people could seriously espouse such an obvious falsehood. Do they really believe that Sunni Muslims and Shi’ite Muslims – whose views on Israel are identical – are slaughtering each other in Iraq because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or that anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon – who are no less anti-Israel than the pro-Syrian sort – are being assassinated by Syria and threatened with a coup by Hizbullah because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 1:01 pm
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Reify asks:
—–Original Message—–
From: reify
Sent: Nov 29, 2006 9:22 PM
To: Israel Zwick, editor@cnpublications.net
Subject: Re: Explain, so that I may rest in piece…..
An inmate in our asylum is all he [Olmert] is. Shrewd?….where from? He virtually tore the Jews out of Gaza.
He conducted the war with Hesbolah poorly, our relationships in the world have deteriorated, so
tell me Israel, what would convince you? When he carries out his stated plan to evict the settlements
in the territories, and cause more havoc, or when our enemies have finally sufficient modern weaponry
where all cities are at risk, or a plane is blown out of the sky?
Zwick responds:
Dear Fred: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 9:40 am
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How lifestyle factors and classroom culture affect black-white differences
An Interview with Ronald Ferguson
from Harvard Education Letter, November, December 2006
For more than a decade, economist Ronald Ferguson has studied achievement gaps. In 2002, he created the Tripod Project for School Improvement, a professional development initiative that uses student and teacher surveys to measure classroom conditions and student engagement by race and gender. The findings inform strategies to raise achievement and narrow achievement gaps. A senior research associate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ferguson is director and faculty cochair of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. He spoke with the Harvard Education Letter about the most recent findings from the Tripod Project surveys.
How do you define “achievement gap”?
There are a lot of different achievement gaps. The achievement gap that I focus the most on is the gap between students of different racial groups whose parents have roughly the same amount of education. It concerns me that black kids whose parents have college degrees on average have much lower test scores than white kids whose parents have college degrees, for example. You can take just about any level of parental education and we have these big gaps. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education Report, Recent Posts on November 30, 2006 - ט' כסלו תשס"ז at 8:14 am
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27/11/2006 – 18:11:36, from BreakingNews.ie
The UN Human Rights Council today passed two resolutions criticising Israel, but kept its record intact of singling out no other country for human rights abuses.The 47-nation council, which has censured only Israel since it began operating six months ago, this time took the Jewish state to task for its occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights and for building settlements in occupied Arab territories.
The council voted 32-1 with 14 abstentions to declare illegal Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights and demand that Israel rescind its decision to impose its laws and jurisdiction on the area, which it captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Canada, which said the resolution was unbalanced, was the only no vote, and EU members abstained. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on November 29, 2006 - ח' כסלו תשס"ז at 11:36 am
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NEW YORK – After more than 60 years, a Holocaust survivor was reunited the day after Thanksgiving with a woman whose family kept her hidden from the Nazis during World War II, NewsChannel 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reported. It was a tearful reunion between unlikely friends: Lea Ingel, an escapee from a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-controlled Lithuania, and Geidrute Ramanauskiene, the daughter of a Catholic family. The two became close friends when Geidrute’s family protected Lea from the Nazis, Cheng said. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Christianity, Judaism, Monotheistic Religions, Recent Posts on November 28, 2006 - ז' כסלו תשס"ז at 12:29 pm
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JEC announce agreement with third party to build 1,100 apartments, 1,200 stores near Bridlewood Mall in Toronto, Canada
Ynet News November 23, 2006
The Jerusalem Economic Corporation Ltd, under the control of Eliezer Fishman, has signed an agreement with a third party to build a real estate project near the Bridlewood Mall in Toronto, Canada, which will consist of 1,100 apartments and 1,200 stores on a plot of land currently used as a parking lot for the mall.
According to the agreement, the sides, together with the third party company, will establish a joint company with equal investments by all sides. The new company will construct the project and will pay for all of its expenses, including the land use conversion, the marketing, and the planning. According to the initial plans, the project will be marketed in stages, and with every completed stage, the land under it will be given to the lending bank as collateral. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Business and Commerce, Middle East Report on November 24, 2006 - ג' כסלו תשס"ז at 7:42 am
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