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Diary of a Demonstrator in a Wheelchair
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By Yahya AlAous- Al Thara Translated by Anna Jozwik 5-1-2013
It iscommon to find children under ten-years-old or elderly men over eighty participating in demonstrations;however,for a man in a wheelchair to join a demonstration is both courageous and risky, especially in a country where the only form of defense is a pair of legs to search for a safe haven, escaping a shower of bullets, or teargas if the security forces are feeling merciful. |
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Civil Society Between Mosque From Demonstrations And Democracy
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Mays al-Krady- Al Thara Translated by Michael Walker
7-5-2011 Civil society represents the highest form harmonious with the practice of democracy and paves the way for transition to the civil-societal formula that is a guarantor of the people's right to effective participation in political authority and decision-making. Civil society forms a participatory condition with the State where realistically the masses become effective, participatory, and active through modern representative bodies in this societal formula. |
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A Mother And A Teenager In the Clutches Of Masuclinity
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Obada Takla- Al Thara Translated by Michael Walker
6-6-2011 "My childhood and teenage years are tied by two stories and personalities that I can not forget," he said as he blew smoke from his cigarette and his eyes beamed with the hurt of the memory. "The hero of the first tale was our neighbor Umm Salah who died a year and a half ago. |
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Despite laws and campaign our streets are still filthy
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Rouba Al- hamoud Translated by: Translated by: Anna Jozwik
14-5-2011 We echo slogans yet we fail to teach our children their true meaning. In other words, we don't practice what we preach. My house, your house, and our friends' houses---all very neat and clean---yet this concept does not extend beyond our front door. As soon as we step over the threshold, we encounter all kinds of rubbish and pollution. In other words, we neglect the cleanliness of our street, neighborhood, or city, i.e. our shared home. |
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Children…Arrest…Torture…Murder
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The Violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Events In Syria
Amer Mourad Translated By Michael Walker
14-5-2011 Killing, torture, and murder are all acts that are banned by all international agreements, accords, and conventions which are contained and summarized in detail in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by the UN General Assembly by resolution 44/25 November 20 1989 and which went into effect September 2 1990. It stipulates in Article 6, Paragraph 1 that, “States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.” |
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Syrian Woman and violence circle
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Yahya Al Aous – Al – Thara Translation ; Ghassan Al - Nassayef
14 – 5 2011 Syrian women has experienced different sorts of violence and discrimination , throughout long eras of its modern history , but kept away from armed conflict circle , if we exclude woman of jolan , who suffered from Israeli occupation a great deal , today it appears that tensions and hostile deeds , very close to Syrian citizen and specifically the Syrian woman |
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Niqab Wearing Women Come Back to Education
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Al-Bouti Gives Them The Tools To Return
Yahya Al Aous- Al Thara
9-4-2011 The ink hadn't dried on the law enacting the ban of munaqibat (niqab wearing women) from public education when the government backed off from its decision, opening the way for the triumphant their return. They left the year before in light of a decision that was considered a correction to the educational system and affirmation of the secular values of the nation. |
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Workshop to discuss findings of report on alternative child care in Syria
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Al Thara- 23-3-2011 Alternative child care should be a last resort. This was one of the main points discussed during the workshop about alternative child care in Syria hosted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in cooperation with UNICEF on March 16 and 17. This unprecedented conference featured Mr. Nigel Cantwell, an expert from the International Social Services Organization (ISS) who took part in the drafting of the Children’s Rights Charter; he addressed several important points.
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Women’s Day: We Need More
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Rima Flihan-Al Thara Translated by: Anna Jozwik
12-3-2011 As we celebrate Women’s Day, it is painful and suffocating to contemplate the society in which I live. As a woman many things weigh heavily upon me. The dream of female empowerment remains unfulfilled in the country I love.
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The Central Bank Opens the Year With Flagrant Gender Discrimination
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Yahya Al Aous – Al Thara Translated by:Michael A. Walker Jr
5-2-2011 Haven’t you heard? The Central Bank of Syria has become one of the establishments that are prohibited from employing Syrian women. It wasn't included on the list issued by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor which defined which departments were prohibited from hiring women during the past year, however the Central Bank surprised us with an announcement for an open position but requested male applicants only without mentioning the reasons. |
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I Am Against Honor Crimes
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By Mehy Aldeen isso Translated by: Michael A. Walker Jr
Al Thara- 12-2-2011 The young woman who was walking through Souq Al-Hamadiyah in the heart of Damascus wasn't the only one wearing a shirt with "I am against honor crimes" written on it. She was trying to send a message to society that these crimes are a disgrace and a black stain added to our shameful record of marginalizing the role of women in society, especially murders for the sake of honor which have increased in Syria in recent years, victimizing dozens of Syrian women. |
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The little child Dhargham….the war disabled
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Let Us Help Him Before Death Reaches Him
Yahya Al Aous – Al Thara Translation by : Ghassan Al - Nassayef
22 – 1 – 2011 Dhargham did not leave his bed for the last seven years, but carried on a stretcher, he never talked to any body, he could never walk and never knew a companion of his age , he was one of thousands of Iraqi children , who paid a cost of unmerciful war, a war which knows exactly how to strangulate their voices in their chests, and transform them to little war disabled. before seven years a car exploded next to the house of the family of the kid in Hayfa avenue in Baghdad |
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Mustafa & the Land Mine
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Mustafa Mohammad – Al Thara Translation : Ghassan Al -Nassyef
5.2.2011 The big child , who was called “ Mustafa “ never left my memory, but rarely, since I was nine years of my age , I don’t recall that, even one time where we played soccer , without Mustafa interfering , snatching the ball from us , or threw this or that to the ground .. he was well built, no one could escape his instinctive villainy. |
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“Honor” crimes take even young girls
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A man kills his “17 year old” niece, the mother of an infant
Al-Thara Exclusive
4-12-2010 “Haifa. A.A”, was killed at the age of seventeen years, brutally, in cold blood, by her uncle, thirty years-old, while a group of present relatives did not intervene. He beat her head into the wall violently and repeatedly causing her to bleed to death, before he took her to the hospital which immediately pronounced the girl dead. |
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A Mother and Teenager Under Male Domination
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Obada Takla-Al Thara
6-6-2011 "My childhood and adolescence are linked with two stories and two people I can't forget," he said while taking a puff of his cigarette, looking through the smoke with pain in his eyes. "The heroine of the first story was our neighbor, Um Silah, who passed away a year and a half ago. |
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