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  • The power of a school lunch: From World War II to Iraq and Afghanistan 30 Nov 2009 19:56 GMT
    ... United States and British planes undertook a heroic mission ... mission into the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands during the final days of World War ... feeding in Austria during 1947. By 1948 UNICEF, with the help of CRS and others, ...

  • Swiss ban on minarets condemned 30 Nov 2009 19:04 GMT
    ... , Monday 30 November 2009 18.12 GMT A minaret ... world, senior church figures, European politicians and human rights experts have deplored 's decision to ban ... from Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League. In the Netherlands, the anti-Muslim Freedom party of Geert Wilders, ...

  • Swiss ban on minarets draws widespread condemnation 30 Nov 2009 18:39 GMT
    ... , Monday 30 November 2009 18.12 GMT A minaret ... world, senior church figures, European politicians and human rights experts have deplored 's decision to ban ... from Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League. In the Netherlands, the anti-Muslim Freedom party of Geert Wilders, ...

  • The power of a school lunch: From World War II to Iraq, Afghanistan 30 Nov 2009 18:36 GMT
    ... United States and British planes undertook a heroic mission ... mission into the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands during the final days of World War ... feeding in Austria during 1947. By 1948 UNICEF, with the help of CRS and others, ...

  • UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Asma Jahangir, criticised the "clear discrimination towards the members of the Swiss Muslim community", in a statement on Monday. 30 Nov 2009 17:48 GMT
    ... Swiss voters' decision to ban the construction of minarets ... spokesman for the UN High Commission for Human Rights also confirmed on Monday that legal experts ... followed the result by calling for the Netherlands to organise its own referendum on the ...

  • Swiss voters' decision to ban the construction of minarets has drawn worldwide criticism, with the United Nations and Council of Europe expressing outright concern. 30 Nov 2009 17:48 GMT
    ... Swiss voters' decision to ban the construction of minarets ... spokesman for the UN High Commission for Human Rights also confirmed on Monday that legal experts ... followed the result by calling for the Netherlands to organise its own referendum on the ...

  • Swiss minaret ban sends ripples worldwide 30 Nov 2009 17:41 GMT
    ... Swiss voters' decision to ban the construction of minarets ... spokesman for the UN High Commission for Human Rights also confirmed on Monday that legal experts ... followed the result by calling for the Netherlands to organise its own referendum on the ...

  • Europe divided after Swiss vote to ban minarets - Feature 30 Nov 2009 17:20 GMT
    ... Berlin ­ Switzerland's vote to ban the building of ... and the Freedom Party PVV in the Netherlands also welcomed the outcome, saying they would ... building such installations to protect our democracy, human rights and freedom." The governments of Austrian and ...

  • Swiss minaret ban draws world's scorn 30 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... A decision by Swiss voters to ban the building ... at the Council of Europe, a 47-member human rights watchdog that Switzerland chairs, issued a statement ... similar referendum to be held in the Netherlands. 'What is possible in Switzerland should be ...

  • Swiss minaret ban draws criticism 30 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... A decision by Swiss voters to ban the building ... at the Council of Europe, a 47-member human rights watchdog that Switzerland chairs, issued a statement ... similar referendum to be held in the Netherlands. 'What is possible in Switzerland should be ...

  • Leaders condemn Swiss minaret ban 30 Nov 2009 16:43 GMT
    ... Sunday's surprise result also prompted dismay from secular ... as saying by Agence France Presse. In Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, anti-immigrant movements called on their own governments ...

  • Feminist Attorney Shadi Sadr: Put Human Rights Defense on Par with Nuclear Safety Concerns 30 Nov 2009 16:26 GMT
    ... Acceptance speech by Ms Shadi Sadr, winner of the 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip (translator Unknown) Jury of the ... Tulip Award, Your Excellency Foreign Minister of Holland Ladies and Gentlemen I am greatly honored that ...

  • Condemnation Follows Swiss Voter Approval of Minaret Ban 30 Nov 2009 16:20 GMT
    ... Bernard Kouchner says he is "scandalized" by the ... French foreign minister has joined with Muslim human rights groups and the Swiss government in criticizing ... nation's tradition of tolerance. However, in the Netherlands, anti-immigration politicians are calling for a similar ...

  • Is Continent's Land Up for Grabs? 30 Nov 2009 15:25 GMT
    ... An apparent surge in the purchase of African land ... (AGRA), told a science forum in the Netherlands in June. Such foreign land acquisitions, he ... threat to food security and other core human rights. "The stakes are huge," he told Africa ...

  • Malta urged to ratify disability convention 30 Nov 2009 14:33 GMT
    ... Current Affairs -- Monday, November 30, 2009 -- ... yet ratified it. This is the first human rights treaty ratified in the history of Europe, ... states have ratified it, that is: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, ...


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— Elham Manea, the co-founder of the Forum for a Progressive Islam on the results of a Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets

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