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The Arab Women's Organization, in cooperation with the United Nations Development Fund and the League of Arab States, recently met in Cairo to discuss the preparation of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in their organization. It was the third meeting by experts, and held in order to provide support for the Arab States in preparing their national reports on their commitment to CEDAW.\ The Kingdom of Bahrain with host the event entitled Be Free on June 9-10. International organizations such as UNICEF and the Organization of Internet Control along with and a number of world-renown experts will participate. The goal of the two-day event is to discuss ways to prevent the trafficking and physical abuse of children through the Internet. \ The Center for Arab Unity Studies in Beirut has issued a new book on the concept of crimes against humanity in international law. Written by William George Nassar, the book covers the concepts of crimes such as genocide, torture, and apartheid, along with ways to identify criminal prosecution and the need for international protection for humanity. \ The Arab Today reported that the Jordanian Ministry of Development plans to conduct a study on the subject of elderly unmarried women in the upcoming months. Thought to be widespread throughout Jordan, the study will focus on the economic and social impediments of spinsterhood.\ An Australian court has agreed to allow a 17 year old female to continue medical treatment that has lead to confusion of her legal gender identification. After the ruling, the court has allowed doctors to remove her breasts in order to appear more masculine. She has already completed several hormonal therapies in order to prevent the onset of menstruation. Doctors have attributed her desire to change her gender due to depression.\ Doctors at the British Queen's University reported that the number of patients with juvenile diabetes has increased significantly within Europe. More than 20,000 children under the age of five are now believed to be afflicted.\ The United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" has been asked to take firm action to stop the trafficking of children amidst the background of a new report stating that more than 150 million girls and 73 million boys under eighteen years of age are forced to have sex every year in different parts of the world. \ The government of the United Arab Emirates has launched a humanitarian initiative which ensures that, upon legal age, any citizen the country deems an orphan will be submitted for employment and receive a secured monthly income. The Human Resources Section of the Dubai police will implement this initiative.\ 18 organizations in a local Jordanian community recently signed the Memoranda of Understanding with the Organization of American Jurisdiction to implement the program "Combating Child Labor through Education." The program will continue for a period of four years, with funding from the Department of Labor in America, at an estimated cost of U.S. $ 4 million.\ A U.S. study reported that an estimated 3.5 million children under the age of five are at risk of starvation in the United States alone. These findings coincide with another study by the U.S. Food Group, which indicated that more than 20% of American children in eleven states suffer from hunger due to the lack of food.



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In between views of the future, and contemplations of the past!

By: Amer Mourad
Translated by Adam Al-Mahdawie

Al Thara- 31-7-2010

“Don’t you have any friends? Help me so I can find a partner, and why are you like a brother to me?” This is what my friend Sulafa uttered. We studied together, at the university and the two of us have reached the age of thirty-three without expecting something like these words. This proud girl with her unbreakable spirit has always been in my thoughts, but now, with all her beauty and her university degree she is filled with fear by the idea of “the spinster” and growing old with the same life.

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After the Adjudication of Prohibition of Veil from Universities,

Two Veiled Girls Partially Giving Up veils,
So at last We Started Seeing People With Their Real Colors

Rouba Al- Hammoud- Al-Thara
Translated by: Ghassan Al-Nassayef

7-8-2010

The two sisters “N” and ”S” did not find a path to cross towards university life,image in other than wearing the veil, even the high marks, they have obtained in their secondary school exams, did not pave the way for them to university, only the veil which the men of the family made as a condition for them , was the guarantee for their feet to touch the ground of university… so the university has been for them, and so is the veil, but as an undesired companion, they never dare to get rid of.

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Infidelity... The Door of Repentance is Opened Only for Men

By: Heba Al- Halabi- Al Thara
Translated by :Heba al-Sharani

10-8--2010

The dominance of shame makes us deal with the infidelity by a way that doesn’t enable us to show the issue with its true details, because of the fear of the community’s non-accepting the detail by the detailed reasons, but makes us consider the chaff of matter while leaving the main reasons eroding the family internally, then infidelity becomes a part of our daily life to keep up with out of our willingness or deal with it ignoring and sometimes we use to it.

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Syria poorly ranked among nations in the trafficking in persons

but showing signs of improvement

Catherine Parker-Sweatt- Al Thara

19-6-2010

On June 14, 2010, the United States Department of State revealed its 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP), the most comprehensive nation-by-nation report on the state of human trafficking and law prevention efforts around the world. In its tenth edition, this year's Report marks the decade anniversary of the U.N.'s adoption of the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons worldwide (also known as the TIP Protocol).

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The Final Report of the Session Regarding “Personal Status Laws "

and the Period of Implementation in the Arab States 30-31 May, 2010.

Special to Al- Thara

5-6-2010

Under the auspices of the League of Arab Nations and with support from the Swedish Institute –Alexandria, the Arab Feminist Union held a session this year regarding Personal Affairs Laws and the period of their implementation in the Arab states. The session was held on the premises of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab Nations in Cairo from the 30 -31 of May, 2010¸under the title “Personal Affairs Laws (Family Law) and the Period of their Implementation in the Arab States.” In attendance were 28 unions and organizations and feminist groups representing 21 Arab states.

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Some thoughts on the WISE conference in Malaysia.

Farzana Hassan –Thara

2/08/2009
Hopes ran high for the second Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) conference as it kicked off on July 16 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Eminent women from all walks of life and all four corners of the globe gathered to brainstorm ideas on how to improve conditions for Muslim women across the world.

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Who would stop the killing of children in Egypt?

149 children died in the 1st half of 2009

This report is issue No. 70 of LCHR's Economic & Social Rights series. The report aims to monitor violence against children during the first half of 2009 through the news published on the children in some of the Egyptian newspapers, and has adopted a report on the analysis of the content of news published in the press to identify crimes of violence against children, in addition to the approximate knowledge of to the extent of violence against them and the type of the perpetrators and their relationship to the children.

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Parents of Autistic Children:

Raising awareness of the difficulties of living with Autism.
Emotional, psychological and financial burdens

By: Thara e-magazine
Translated by: Mehdi Shakrachi

Little is known about autism and any information available is often inaccurate. There is a lack of both specialist training and care centres specialising in treating the disorder. There is a disappointing lack of attention and support from the government for those with autistic children.

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The national forum on honor crimes

announced the ripeness of circumstances to abrogate the articles

which encourage murder on the pretext of honor in Syria

By: Yahya al-Aous

Translated by: Amanda Johnson

The Syrian Council for Family Affairs gathered on the theme imagefor three days from the 14th until the 16th October 2008, and it is possible to describe this as the largest meeting to discuss the phenomena of crimes perpetrated on the pretext of honor in Syria. It included a large number of religious scholars, legal experts, and educational specialists.

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Cancer Children: The illness kills them

and their yearning for their mothers exhausts them

By Nour Bassmaji

Translated by Schadi Semnani

"That illness" we call it, as if it were a demon or an evil spirit that would leap up at the mere mention of its name!image Although many countries have developed effective treatment for cancer, fear of it still lives in our hearts. Maybe we fear it because of the finite number of treatments which don't even eliminate the possibility of relapse and don't distinguish between the young and the old. So if this disease is to be called a catastrophe when it befalls one of us, how can we possibly describe it when it attacks children?

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Duplicity of Oriental Man

they solve the problem like that

Lava Khaled
Orient societies in general live under the control of stagnant traditions and conventions, most of them are retarded. Some think that despite of that, some traditions are the fort to protect ourselves from big mistakes. It was the opinion of Youngman (H) who made his sister bedridden for days and deprived from a whole semester when he discovered her love to her colleague at university who left the lady after that for illogical reasons as he told us.

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