Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN World News Portal – Tara Sutton in Mafraq, Jordan - The Guardian News – Friday June 29, 2012 Mafraq, JORDAN: With criminals and rebels helping them on their way, Syria’s army of refugees marches by night, in single file and silence, towards the Jordanian border. More than 140,000 desperate people, many of them women [...]
IRIN -Thursday, 03 May 2012 (originally published 23 Apr) UBAI, 23 April 2012 (IRIN) – It was 21 February 2006. The date is etched in Samia’s* mind. She was in her kitchen making tea for her brother’s family, who was visiting her at her home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, when gunfire broke out in [...]
Oliver Holmes – Reuters – Friday, 27 April 2012 (originally published 26 Apr) (Reuters) – When the aspirin and alcohol swabs fell from under her clothes at a Syrian army checkpoint, Rania stood petrified, looking first down at her fallen contraband and then up at the soldier who stared straight back at her. Rania knew [...]
Rebecca Murray- IPS – Monday, 13 December, 2010 (originally published 10 Dec) DAMASCUS, Dec 10, 2010 (IPS) – Iman Wannouss was just 21 years old when she was married off to a close relative. For the next two decades she gave up her work and raised three children in a loveless and violent marriage. “He [...]
