June 17, 2009
By Howard Schneider
Washington Post Foreign News
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
JERUSALEM, June 16 — Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were being treated “more like animals than human beings” by Israeli rules that have limited travel, banned the import of all but basic goods and prevented reconstruction since a three-week war ended earlier this year.
“Never before in history has a large community been savaged by bombs and missiles and then deprived of the means to repair itself,” he said.
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June 17, 2009
Gaza Tour Troubles Former US President Carter
By Voice of America News
16 June 2009
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has expressed grief, despair and anger after seeing the destruction caused during Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
Mr. Carter toured parts of the Palestinian territory Tuesday and met with top officials from Hamas, which runs Gaza.
Speaking alongside top Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, Mr. Carter said he hopes rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah can reconcile in the interest of regional peace. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 16, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
GAZA, June 16 (Reuters) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being “treated more like animals than human beings”, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday.
On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel’s January bombardment of Gaza and its continuing trade blockade, which he said forbids even children’s toys.
“I understand that even paper and crayons are treated as a security hazard,” he told Gazans at a local United Nations office. “I sought an explanation of this when I met with Israeli officials and I received none, because there is no explanation.”
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June 16, 2009
Heather Sharp
BBC News, Jerusalem
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Two years since Hamas seized control in Gaza, US President Barack Obama has strengthened his calls for an end to the crippling blockade Israel has imposed on the territory.
“If the people of Gaza have no hope, if they can’t even get clean water… if the border closures are so tight that it is impossible for reconstruction… then that is not going to be a recipe for Israel’s long-term security,” he said in his recent speech in Cairo.
Full article @ BBC
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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May 27, 2009
From BBC: “Gazans have begun building with mud. Under Israel’s blockade, building materials cannot enter the Strip, leaving the owners of several thousand homes destroyed in the recent conflict unable to rebuild.”
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June 15, 2008
Amnesty International Press Release
June 15, 2008
The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return, Amnesty International said today.
In its new report, Rhetoric and reality: the Iraqi refugee crisis, which is based on recent research and interviews with Iraqi refugees, the organization said that the world’s richest states are failing to provide the necessary assistance to Iraqi refugees, most of whom are plunged in despair and hurtling towards destitution.
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June 15, 2008
With millions displaced, foreign countries take increasingly hardline stance
By Kim Sengupta
Sunday, 15 June 2008
The Independent (U.K.)
…The Iraqi diaspora is now one of the largest in modern times, with more than two million people fleeing abroad. But the ferocious strife and the breakdown in law and order have led to another wave of about 2.7 million fleeing their homes but unable to escape the country. Many of these have moved to Baghdad, putting further strain on a shattered infrastructure and adding to the city’s sectarian tensions. The situation in terms of numbers and conditions for the displaced people has deteriorated dramatically in the past two years, Amnesty [International] claims.
Full article @ The Independent
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March 21, 2008
Julien Barnes-Dacey, Chronicle Foreign Service
Friday, March 21, 2008
“People are finding themselves in extreme situations and at the worst end we’re seeing child labor, early marriage and survival sex,” U.N. spokeswoman Sybella Wilkes said. “This is something that these families would never have resorted to in Iraq. They’re facing drastic measures in order to keep some semblance of quality of life.”
The United Nations estimates that more than 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland, with more than 700,000 and 1.2 million pouring into neighboring Jordan and Syria, respectively. In January, the U.N. refugee agency appealed for $261 million for programs to “support the most vulnerable of the uprooted inside and outside Iraq.”
Full article @ San Francisco Chronicle
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July 12, 2007
Carol Lloyd
Broadsheet: Women, politics, culture.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
…Iraqi refugees in Syria have roughly doubled to an estimated 1.2 million (this according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, but the Syrian government estimates far more) and the desperation has only grown.
With all Iraqi refugees banned from employment, the burgeoning sex trade has become one of the few sources of income for refugee families. According to a piece in the Independent in late June, one women’s group estimates the number of Iraqi prostitutes to be around 50,000.
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June 24, 2005
Fleeing their war-torn homes, Iraqi girls are selling their bodies in Syria to support their families.
Joshua E.S. Phillips
Jun 24, 2005
The story of a Sunni girl from Fallujah selling herself in a Damascus nightclub represents startling new fallout from the Iraq war, one human rights organizations and experts are only beginning to address. An increasing number of young Iraqi women and girls who fled Iraq during the turmoil are turning to prostitution in Syria, although there are no reliable statistics on how many girls are involved…The U.S. State Department’s 2005 “Trafficking in Persons Report” acknowledges the problem, but officials have no clear sense of its magnitude.
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