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NOVANEWS News Politics Conservatives Tories 'airbrushed' ethnic minority candidates from campaign leaflets Party denies keeping photographs of its non-white candidates out to pander to the BNP's supporters Toby Helm and Anushka Asthana The Observer, Sunday 21 March 2010 Article history The Conservatives have been accused of "pandering to prejudice" by omitting pictures of their non-white election candidates from campaign literature in areas where they are fighting the BNP. Claims by the Tory leader, David Cameron, to be promoting ethnic diversity were called into question after an entire series of campaign calendars issued in east London – the front line of the fight against the BNP – contained only photographs of their white candidates. The Conservatives denied that the ...

NOVANEWS     Photography Compulsary Question Give a creative caption for the above picture (20 marks)

NOVANEWS News Release, For Immediate Release, Sunday, April 11, 2010  The new order: an Israeli demand that all residents of the West Bank including those who were born there and live in the Palestinian Authority obtain an Israeli issued permit HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual and nine other human rights organizations urgently appealed to the minister of defense this morning with a demand to delay the entry into force of two military orders which will turn all residents of the West Bank into criminals who may be imprisoned for up to seven years or deported from the area. On Tuesday, April 13 2010, the Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration (Amendment No. 2) and the Order regarding Security Provisions (Amendment No. 112) are to enter into effect. The orders, signed by t...

NOVANEWS News Release, For Immediate Release, Monday, March 15, 2010   The organizations are petitioning against a new procedure which almost completely blocks the possibility of relocating from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. ·         The procedure determines that parent-child and spousal relationships do not constitute “humanitarian” grounds justifying family unification in the West Bank.  “Humanitarian” according to Israel: An orphaned child in the Gaza Strip would not be allowed to unite with his surviving parent in the West Bank if any relative in Gaza can care for him.   The procedure is another stage in Israel’s policy designed to deepen the separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Monday, March 15, 2010 – HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, Gisha – Le...

NOVANEWS News Release - For Immediate Release - Tuesday, February 9, 2010   ·        Gisha and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel appealed to the High Court of Justice on behalf of Issam Hamdan against a District Court ruling blocking his exit from Gaza for emergency medical treatment. ·        The State refuses to allow him out of Gaza based on its claim that he may settle in the West Bank after treatment. ·        Mr. Hamdan requires immediate surgical intervention; suffers from severe pain and paralysis of his left side. ·        Israel will bear no cost for the treatment, to be performed in a Palestinian hospital in east Jerusalem, and admits that it makes no security claim against Mr. Hamdan. ·        Mr. Hamdan's case is part of a new trend in which Israel blocks treatment...

NOVANEWS   News Release - For Immediate Release -Tuesday, February 2, 2010   Thirteen Israeli human rights organizations sent an urgent letter (attached) to the president, the Knesset speaker and the prime minister, protesting the increasing and systematic campaign against human rights organizations in Israel: "A democracy must not silence critical voices; protecting human rights is vital."   In their letter, the organizations cite former head of the Oz unit Tziki Sela and Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who accused organizations assisting refugees of "aiming to destroy Israel" and "undermining the Zionist enterprise;" Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, who said of human rights organizations "your enemies will come from within;” the summoning of human rights activists for investigation by...

NOVANEWS Human rights community to Israeli Prime Minister: Time is running out. Establish independent inquiry into Operation Cast Lead   [Print] Adalah -- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel | Association for Civil Rights in Israel | B’tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories | Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement | Hamoked - Center for Defence of the Individual | Physicians for Human Rights - Israel | Public Committee Against Torture in Israel | Yesh Din - Volunteers for Human Rights   Press Release –for immediate publication - Tuesday, January 26, 2010   Human rights organizations in Israel reissued their call to the Government of Israel to establish, without delay, an independent and impartial investigat...

NOVANEWS Attachment(s) from Sharry Lapp 1 of 1 File(s) Kairos statement on the new Israeli military order.doc http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/18186725/97928451/name/Kairos%20statement%20on%20the%20new%20Israeli%20military%20order.doc   See also   http://www.oikoumene.org/gr/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html20order.doc._,_._

NOVANEWS The divestment debate taking place at Berkeley is creating waves. It is not only helping to build diverse and powerful coalitions on campus, but it is also sparking conversations in places that have, at least to this point, been allergic to BDS. Jerry Haber has an important post over at his blog The Magnes Zionist appealing to liberal Zionists as to why they should give guarded support to the BDS movement. He lists 13 reasons, they are: 1. You already support two of the three central aims of the movement, which are 1. Ending Israel’s occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall; 2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; Where you may disagree is over: 3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the...

NOVANEWS April 17, 2010 posted by Michael Leon Goldman Sachs Update: ABC News: President Clinton: [Former Goldman Execs'] Rubin and Summers Gave Me Wrong Advice on Derivatives, and I Was Wrong To Take It. Make no mistake.; these are high-stakes political wars. And the Obama administration is more than capable of launching hell on its enemies should certain big-moneyed interests choose this course. By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs, whose tactics exiting the collapsing subprime mortgage market have been under government scrutiny for months, now faces federal fraud charges that it duped investors into losing $1 billion on a rigged offshore deal pegged to dicey home loans. The suit, brought Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, accuses Goldman and...