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The ministerial committee on the status of women, headed by Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat (Likud), held deliberations Tuesday night to discuss the marked increase in incidents of women being excluded from the public sphere. The committee voted to create an inter-ministerial panel that will take two months to submit recommendations for combating the phenomenon.
On 6th December, 2011, the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women convened a special meeting with several Knesset members, police and government officials, for the occasion of International Human Rights Day. The meeting, initiated by the Gun Free Kitchen Tables campaign, was dedicated exclusively to the campaign demand: Enforcing an existing law restricting security guards’ guns to their places of work and prohibiting guns from being taken home by security guards at the end of their work shifts.
On 6th December, 2011, the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women convened a special meeting with several Knesset members, police and government officials, for the occasion of International Human Rights Day. The meeting, initiated by the Gun Free Kitchen Tables campaign, was dedicated exclusively to the campaign demand: Enforcing an existing law restricting security guards’ guns to their places of work and prohibiting guns from being taken home by security guards at the end of their work shifts.
On the opening page of her remarkably forwardlooking book Sixty Years Sixty Voices —Israeli and Palestinian Women, Patricia Smith Mellon writes poignantly, asserting women’s empowerment:
Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, has pitted himself against the city's swelling ranks of ultra-orthodox extremists by demanding that local police enable women to reclaim their position in the public domain.
Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, has pitted himself against the city's swelling ranks of ultra-orthodox extremists by demanding that local police enable women to reclaim their position in the public domain.
This report is the first of a series to bring you the voices of Palestinians and Israelis during this time of dynamic confrontation. Hope and despair have taken turns in the Middle East through the Oslo Accords of 1993, two intifadas, the building of the separation wall, a blockade, the killing of more than 1300 Gazans in January 2009, and a financial upturn in Ramallah in the West Bank.
With peace talks beginning between Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week, the world is looking for signs of hope in the Middle East. From a ship in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Mairead Maguire stresses the role for nonviolent activism.
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