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Diary of a Demonstrator in a Wheelchair

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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Workshop to discuss findings of report on alternative child care in Syria

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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WHO Releases a New Report on Maternal Mortality Trends

Syria 2008: 46 maternal deaths
and 270 women died from pregnancy-related causes

By: Elly Teitsworth- Al Thara

2-10-2010

At the 2000 Millennium Summit, two goals were established for evaluating progress in improving global maternal health: reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75% between 1990 and 2015, and realizing universal access to reproductive health care by 2015. With five years remaining to realize these goals, the World Health Organization has released a report that brings together data collected by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and The World Bank to analyze maternal mortality trends over the period from 1990 to 2008.

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Syria steps up anti-trafficking measures

Two-day workshop to set new milestone in the fight against human trafficking

Al Thara -September 27 (UNHCR)
Syrian efforts to combat the trafficking of persons will gain momentum this week during a two-day workshop entitled “Combating Trafficking in Persons and Cooperation Mechanisms” at the Blue Tower Hotel in Damascus.
Organised by the Syrian Women’s Union, in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the workshop explores measures for the implementation of Syria’s new counter-trafficking legislation, adopted by presidential decree in January 2010.

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The Cultural Forum for people with special needs

Creativity is not limited to Those Who are Labeled Healthy

Mustafa Mohammed – Al-Thara
Translated By Ghassan Al-Nassayef

18.9.2010


Every treating trial, or following of the issues, events and incidents of those who are with special need,image is not going to be easy, specially that we are to be faced with a world which is tough to approach, that involves many explanation, interpretative and diagnostic hardships . For the work is mostly based on psychological, physical and a precise social studies, that handles in its viewpoints, a great vast number of side effects and a growing deep sediments, due to inability of understanding the classic feature of solution and the absence of the art of dealing, with the notion of mistaken popular view, towards the nooks, rather even the inhabitants of this world !

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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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