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The Price to Pay?

Monday 12 June 2006
Ramallah, 11-06-06: For a few hours at least, the heart rending images of 12-year-old Huda Ghalia sobbing uncontrollably over the limp body of her father drew the world's eyes towards the daily tragedy of life in Gaza under continued Israeli (...)

Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos’ 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals

Friday 9 June 2006
Some years ago, Russell Jacoby wrote a book called The Last Intellectuals in which he lamented the waning of the tradition of the public intellectual: that breed of intellectual who addresses himself “with vigor and clarity” to an educated lay audience and fosters a critical perspective on (...)

Overseas Internships with Alternatives

Monday 5 June 2006
Imagine learning to make websites for Latin American NGOs, creating radio spots for African stations, and being witness to the challenges that confront organizations that defend human rights in Asia and other civil societies the world over. Alternatives offers three specific programs for (...)

Punishing Innocent Palestinians is a Crime

Monday 15 May 2006
Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the United States government has become the driving force behind an apparently effective scheme of depriving the (...)

High Commissioner concerned over deteriorating situation in occupied Palestinian territory

Monday 15 May 2006
As the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour warned that the region was on the brink of a human rights and humanitarian crisis, she called on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to respect core international human rights standards, and recalled the Advisory Opinion of (...)

Hamas and Israel’s "Right to Exist"

Monday 15 May 2006
To the great consternation of most of the world, the European Union, followed now by Norway and Canada, has halted payments to the Hamas-led government of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The stated reason is that Hamas has not recognized Israel's "right to exist" or "renounced violence," but (...)

Starving a nation

Saturday 13 May 2006
The Palestinian people, who have undergone much suffering for the last half a century and more, are once again being punished. Their crime this time is that they voted the Islamists to power.

Collapse of the Palestinian Health System

Saturday 13 May 2006
The collapse of the Palestinian health system due to the freeze of the tax revenue by Israel, and the stoppage of international aid is the focus of a new position paper published by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Some of the cancer patients in the Gaza Strip have not received chemotherapy (...)

Internships in Information Technology

Thursday 27 April 2006
Internships in Information Technology Alternatives in collaboration with NetCorps is pleased to offer a wide range of 6 month internships with partner NGOS located in Latin America, Africa and South Asia. The program is funded by Industry Canada, and administered by a coalition of Canadian (...)

Internships in Urban Agriculture

Thursday 27 April 2006
Alternatives, in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency, is pleased to offer a 6 month environmental internship with a partner NGO overseas. All internship positions for this year have been filled. Please consult our website in the spring of 2006 for more information (...)

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