Archive for July, 2008
Article from the International Middle East Media Centre [link]
Due to the closure of all border crossings by the Israeli authorities, hundreds of Palestinian students are still waiting for their opportunites to study abroad, including many who wish to come and study in Britain. Under international law, including the Declaration of Human Rights, every individual is [...]
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Tags: gaza, human rights, israel, middle east, palestine, students, violations
Guardian article to be found here.
A Moroccan woman was denied French citizenship on the grounds that her choice to wear a Burqa constitutes a “radical” practice of Islam that is contradictary to French equality laws.
This is a flash back to previous attacks on Muslims by the French government (link) and shows that hostility and islamaphobic [...]
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Tags: france, international, Islamaphobia, muslim, Politics
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7503807.stm
“Service personnel are to be given university education free of charge after they end their duty with the armed forces, it has been reported.”
The government has long offered to pay tuition fees of students as an incentive to keep them in the military, but now seems to be going one step further. All this when [...]
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Tags: Education, free, students
