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06/29/2007 Irakilaisilta puuttuvat turvallisuus, työpaikat, juomavesi, ja varsinkin sähkö. Kaikki mittarit osoittavat, että infrastruktuuri on nyt heikommalla tolalla kuin Saddam Husseinin aikana.

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From: Suomen IPS
Related: [Iraq]
Tony Blair - hero or zero? (© Make Trade Fair, Oxfam)
06/29/2007 Journalist Robert Fisk put the question: How could Blair - "this vain, deceitful man, this proven liar, a trumped-up lawyer who has the blood of thousands of Arab men, women and children on his hands - get a job as Middle East envoy?" Jan Oberg gives an answer.
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From: Transnational Foundation
Related: [United Kingdom]
Image: Tony Blair - hero or zero? (© Make Trade Fair, Oxfam)
Palestinian students from the youth group "Gaza Waves."
06/26/2007 Just days before the Hamas takeover of Gaza, a dozen teens from Gaza City connected with U.S. high school students. Now, in the days following Gaza's bloody street battles, one teen wishes she would have told her new American friends, "Please don’t give up on us."
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From: Mercy Corps
Related: [Palestine] [United States]
Image: Palestinian students from the youth group "Gaza Waves." © Mercy Corps
Jimmy Carter
06/26/2007 As ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares for a new job as Middle East envoy, listen to what another former Western leader, Jimmy Carter, said about the region when he talked in Oxford about his new book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, and his subsequent attack of the Bush administration's refusal to accept Hamas' election victory as "criminal".
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Image: Jimmy Carter
06/25/2007 The aid blockade of Gaza has left 1.3 million people on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, an international development agency warned today.
* OneWorld Guide to Palestine
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From: Oxfam Great Britain
Related: [Palestine]
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06/25/2007 Turkki vahvistaa sotilaallisia asemiaan Irakin rajalla ja pohtii mahdollista kurdisisseihin kohdistuvaa hyökkäystä. Hallitukselta on vaadittu päättäväisiä toimia sissejä vastaan, mutta sotaretken riskit arveluttavat.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related: [Turkey] [Conflict]
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06/22/2007 Two controlled, imagined communities symbolise the global disorder and social polarisation that marks the era of war on terror, writes Paul Rogers.
From openDemocracy
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06/21/2007 Egyptin ja EU:n tuore sopimus korkeakouluyhteistyöstä pyrkii vähentämään koulutettujen egyptiläisten pakoa ulkomaille. Opiskelijoiden ja tutkijoiden liikkuvuutta pyritään edistämään koko Välimeren alueella.
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From: Ulkoministeriö
Related: [Southern Europe] [Egypt] [Education]
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Iraqi refugee girl.
06/21/2007 A proposal introduced Wednesday, on World Refugee Day, would facilitate the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in the United States -- particularly those who worked directly with U.S. forces in the country.
From: Human Rights First
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Related: [Iraq]
Image: Iraqi refugee girl. © International Rescue Committee
06/21/2007 Protests have been held in Paris, London and Arab countries to mark BBC correspondent Alan Johnston’s 100th day as a hostage in Gaza.
+ Deepening humanitarian crisis
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From: Reporter Senza Frontiere
Related: [Palestine]
Student Action for Refugees, UK
06/19/2007 The number of refugees in the world has increased for the first time since 2002, largely as a result of the crisis in Iraq, the UN refugee agency said today.
+ Halt Mass Deportation of Afghans, Iran Told
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From: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Related: [Iraq]
Image: Student Action for Refugees, UK
But what's the war like for ordinary Iraqis?
06/16/2007 A documentary web series follows the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in the Iraqi capital.
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Related: [Iraq]
Image: But what's the war like for ordinary Iraqis? © Jeffrey Allen
'Death' - an image posted on a Lebanese blog this week.
06/15/2007 A gloomy atmosphere looms over the blogosphere in violence-plagued Lebanon this week. Find out what ordinary Lebanese are saying about expectations of war and the fear of terrorism.
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From: Global Voices Online
Related: [Lebanon]
Image: 'Death' - an image posted on a Lebanese blog this week. © meiroun.blogspot.com / Global Voices Online
06/14/2007 As violence continues in Palestine, research shows that Palestinian households are also hit on the financial front: they owe more than $870m, with over half of all households reporting that their debts have increased since the aid boycott on Palestine began a year ago.
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From: Oxfam International
Related: [Palestine]
06/14/2007 More than 5,000 people representing over 300 organizations gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capital Sunday to call for the U.S. government to bring about lasting and just peace and help end the 40-year occupation and conflict in Israel.
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From: Grassroots International
Related: [Israel]
06/12/2007 The third PhotoVoice Magnum Photographers' Lecture will feature Magnum correspondent Micha Bar-Am and two members of The Families Forum - a network of over 400 Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families dedicated to pursuing peace and dialogue as an end to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
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From: PhotoVoice
Related: [United Kingdom] [Palestine] [Israel]
06/12/2007 A Pride Walk, planned to take place in Jerusalem this month, is being blocked by Israeli legislators who believe it would "hurt the general public sensitivity." Read what Israeli bloggers have to say about their right to walk down the city's streets.
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From: Global Voices Online
Related: [Israel]
Whose count counts?
06/10/2007 Depends on who's counting, says New America Media editor Amir Soltani, analyzing the competing assessments to come up with a likely figure of U.S. and Iraqi casualties per day and per hour.
From: New America Media
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Related: [Iraq] [United States]
Image: Whose count counts? © In These Times
06/08/2007 Life in the village of Golovasi used to revolve around the fishing in the nearby Mediterranean Sea, but the arrival of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline has kept fishermen out of their fishing regions and driven the fish out of the area. "Fishing here is finished," said a local fisherman. "We have boats, but we don't really use them anymore."
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From: Eurasianet (Open Society Institute)
Related: [Turkey]
06/07/2007 As the crisis at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli enters its third week, several thousand children and family members remain trapped inside the camp, caught in the middle of a continuing conflict between the Lebanese army and the armed faction Fatah al-Islam.

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From: Save the Children UK
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