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31.03.2006 Effat College ended a two-day symposium yesterday on the subject of utilizing information and communication technologies in a teaching environment.

31.03.2006 Patient care in Iraq has been the main casualty of an exodus of experienced doctors caused by rising levels of crime and violence.

30.03.2006 The Bush administration's handling of the war is turning allies into enemies, argues Robert Dreyfuss.

30.03.2006 Nearly three years after declaring the end of the war President Bush is still denying the obvious reality, says Council for a Livable World. So they've assembled a series of quotes from the Iraq War and the Vietnam War for a side by side comparison; check out the similarities and pass them along to a friend!

30.03.2006 The city of Dubai is experienceing one of the largest construction booms in the history of the world--on the backs of migrant laborers who face abusive labor practices and squalid living conditions, according to Human Rights Watch.

29.03.2006 Le 'Donne in nero' scrivono al candidato Presidente Romano Prodi. "Rossana Rossanda alcuni giorni fa, attraverso le pagine de Il Manifesto le ha rivolto un invito molto forte a far sentire la voce dell'Unione riguardo la questione Israelo/Palestinese, ponendole con grande efficacia questioni precise in termini di responsabilità nella politica estera dell'eventuale futuro governo dell'Unione. Ci preme farle sapere che l'indirizzo politico che L'Unione, ci auguriamo, saprà e vorrà dare alla politica estera italiana per la risoluzione dei tanti teatri di guerra aperti nel mondo, per il coinvolgimento in essi dei contingenti militari italiani, per il perseguimento di condizioni di diritto a partire dalle situazioni di maggior emergenza, coinvolge fortemente anche noi. (...) Tutto il Medio Oriente ha bisogno che le diplomazie internazionali convergano sulla condanna di atti unilaterali, illegali e di violazione dei diritti umani. Per questo signor Presidente le chiediamo di impegnarsi a nome dell'Unione. Israele e Palestina hanno bisogno di vivere in pace e in sicurezza, il mondo intero ne ha bisogno. Le chiediamo signor Presidente di impegnarsi per il dialogo , per condizioni di pari dignità e perchè gli aiuti internazionali ai Territori palestinesi non vengano bloccati".

28.03.2006 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer aiming for a Palestinian home on March 16, 2003. Her powerful emails and journal entries have been transformed into a one-woman play, but political pressure might keep it from ever reaching a U.S. stage.

28.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 27 (OneWorld) - Arab leaders must press Sudan's government to let the United Nations take charge of peacekeeping in Darfur, the oil-rich country's war-wrecked western region, Arab and Western human rights advocates said in advance of regional talks starting Tuesday.

27.03.2006 Following pressure from media groups, US officials promised to begin prompt, high-level reviews of cases in which journalists are detained by troops in Iraq.

27.03.2006 Past winners of the Right Livelihood Award - often described as The Alternative Nobel Peace Prize - have written to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urging him to act against a threat by an election candidate against peace activist Uri Avnery.

25.03.2006 NEW YORK, Mar 24 (IPS) - Wrapping up a week of over 600 protest actions to mark three years since the United States invaded Iraq, activists here say that anti-war sentiment has become the dominant perspective in the U.S. and leaves the war "without legitimacy".

23.03.2006 I have to take issue with Abid Aslam's article, "Third Iraq Anniversary Finds Publics Weary of War and Protest," particularly the assertion that anti-war activism has waned. I was surprised to see OneWorld joining the trend of playing down opposition to the Iraq war...

23.03.2006 A visitor to one war memorial sits thinking about another--a current--war. Attorney, political scientist, and poet David Krieger transports us there.

22.03.2006 A dentist, a journalist, a blogger...Find out what ordinary Iraqis think about the U.S.-led war, occupation, and prospects for the future.

20.03.2006 Sixteen Jewish campaign groups are urging the Archibishop of Canterbury to support the General Synod’s vote to withdraw its investments in bulldozer manufacturer Caterpillar. A War on Want report shows that the company sells its bulldozers to the Israeli military fully aware that they will be used for the demolition of houses in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

20.03.2006 The Transnational Foundation points out that its predictions about Iraq - based on an annual budget of $25,000 - have turned out to be better than those of the American, British and Danish governments with their multibillion dollar budgets for foreign policy research, intelligence and other services. "Fortunately," notes Jan Oberg, these governments' "intellectual laziness, their (self) deception, lies and spin has been debunked."

20.03.2006 The war in Iraq is the deadliest for journalists since World War II. A total of 86 journalists and media assistants have been killed since the war began on 20 March 2003 - more than the number killed during 20 years of war in Vietnam or the civil war in Algeria.

19.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 19 (OneWorld) - Today's third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq presents anti-war groups with something of a paradox: Public protest has waned even as popular opposition to the war and the politicians prosecuting it has waxed.

17.03.2006 Israel's obstruction of a civil society conference on the Palestinian elections has been condemned by two prominent Palestinian Legislative Council members.

17.03.2006 On kulunut pian kolme vuotta siitä kun Yhdysvallat hyökkäsi Irakiin. Sekavana jatkuvasta ajanjaksosta irakilaiselle Methboubsin perheelle ovat jääneet päällimmäisinä mieleen pettymyksen ja turhautumisen tunteet. Toivo rauhasta elää yhä.