Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 19th to the 25th, 2013. While the Israeli government announced this week its intention to release a number of Palestinian political detainees, army and settlers attacks left two Palestinians dead.
Read MoreIn a Democracy Now! exclusive, the only freed member of the Cuban Five, René González, speaks out after a 13-year imprisonment in the United States. The five Cuban intelligence agents were arrested in the United States in 1998 and convicted of espionage. We include the interview with former parliament chair Ricardo Alarcon.
Read MoreBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff publicly apologized today to Cuban doctor Juan Delgado, who received insults upon his arrival in the country to work as part of a contingent of Cuban physicians hired to work in areas where health services are precarious.
Read MoreThe Palestinian Authority voiced concerns over escalating rates of construction in West Bank Israeli settlements, meanwhile settlers attacks this week leave five Palestinians injured.
Read MoreAl Jazeera’s Anjali Kamat discusses her recent investigation into the state of Bangladeshi sweatshops following the November 2012 fire at the Tazreen factory that killed at least 112 people. Al Jazeera uncovered factories where Old Navy pants are being worked on by children as young as 12.
Read MoreBefore the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Cuba has once again called on nations to work towards general and complete disarmament, including the banning of nuclear arsenals. Though we must continue to ask for this at all international forums, this goal is, in my opinion, nothing short of an unattainable dream.
Read MoreFor the first time in months, the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has appeared on video speaking in Moscow. He warned about “dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under sort of an eye that sees everything even when it’s not needed.”
Read MoreWelcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 5th to the 11th, 2013. The Palestinian Authority voiced concerns this week due to Israeli reluctance of releasing political prisoners, while Israeli army attacks targeting Palestinians communities leave a number of injured civilians
Read MoreThe effort in the Ecuadorian legislature to decriminalize abortion in the new Criminal Code was aborted itself on Friday after President Rafael Correa threatened to resign if the motion had passed. The biggest losers are women with problem pregnancies that could cost them their lives.
Read MoreThe possibility of decriminalizing abortion in Ecuador, an issue under discussion today in the National Assembly, could result in the resignation of President Rafael Correa. The president stated that the Ecuadorian Constitution proclaims its defense of life from the moment of conception.
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