Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

The Silencer: Libel Litigation as a Threat to Free Speech

ACRI’s new report exposes how the court has become a mechanism for silencing criticism.

Social and environmental activists, bloggers and people who are active on Facebook are already familiar with the phenomenon of powerful forces – contractors, politicians, tycoons – that don’t hesitate to threaten libel suits and sue those who fight them. Whether defamation [...]

Jesus Behind the Apartheid Walls

رسالة عيد الميلاد من الرئيس عباس لحجاج العالم إلى بيت لحم

Merry Christmas from Bethlehem, where Jesus was born! Wednesday – December 19 2012 – a Christmas message from Palestine to the Christian World by President Mahmoud Abbas.

If you take a look around Bethlehem, one is bound to be shocked by the choking reality this city [...]

The 56th IAEA General Conference

فلسطين تشارك وإسرائيل تتغيب عن الجلسة الإفتتاحية لمؤتمر الطاقة الذرية في النمسا

The General Conference of the IAEA, which is scheduled to last five days, was opened today Monday Sept. 17 2012, at 10am in the M building of the UNOV. The opening session was attended by hundreds of high-level government representatives of the [...]

Funeral March For Privacy In Austria

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Saturday – April 31 2012 – Kawther Salam,
About three thousand Austrian protesters held a funeral March with prayers against the implementation of the “Data Retention Law” (Spying law) from the first of April 2012 in Austria. The demonstrators carried symbolic “Privacy” coffins to express their anger against the disrespect of the government for [...]

Global Science: 10 Theses For A Scientific Conception Of The 21st Century

The paper “Global Science: 10 Theses For A Scientific Conception Of The 21st Century” By the Syrian med doctor and philosopher Dr. med. Nadim Sradj, MA was submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the aim that the principles he presents would be accepted for recognized by the organization. Dr. [...]

Egypt Does Not Want To Occupy The West

Engineer Mohamed Farid Hassanein, an industrialist and a former member of the Egyptian People’s Assembly, has called to change the previous political discourse and to pressure the West to support the freedom and democracy in our countries, stressing that without support from the West, we will not achieve anything. His call came during a lecture [...]

Organized Crime has Ballooned to Global Proportions

From the Left: Amina Mahmoud, Kenya, the chair of the press conference, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations office on drugs and crime (UNODC), and J. Sandage

The organized crime has “ballooned to global proportions” said today Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [...]

Obscene Israeli Behavior Behind the Scenes at UN

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Aktham Suliman, the representative of al-Jazeera to the 54 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference in Vienna and the chief of the al-Jazeera bureau in Berlin, did not surprise me with his news reported from the IAEA press room in Vienna about being physically assaulted by the bodyguards of the Israel [...]