NY: Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Peace Negotiations: Implementing Security Council Resolution 1820
— June 22, 2009 – NY Conference
— UNIFEM: “Sexual violence has become a method of fighting in modern war, with devastating impact on women and their communities. Failure to address sexual violence in the peace processes, to treat it as a war crime and prosecute it means that it spills over into peace time, with countries like Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo currently seeing an epidemic of rape. Addressing sexual violence in peace processes is a way of signaling that sexual violence is unacceptable in the post-conflict era.”
Day: June 22, 2009
Israel: Trial Brings Light to Treatment of Messianic Jews
(Israel) Trial Brings Light to Treatment of Messianic Jews
— CBN reports: “In 2005, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protestors invaded a Messianic Jewish congregation, overturned furniture and harassed the members for hours.”
— “Congregation Nachalat Yeshua (Yeshua’s Inheritance) in Beersheva planned a special baptismal service on Christmas eve in 2005, which that year coincided with the first night of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights).”
— “But before the celebration ever got underway, nearly 1,000 violent protestors, who opposed their faith in Yeshua (Jesus), invaded the premises.”
Iran Reports – June 22, 2009
Iran hardliners keep protesters off the streets
Young woman describes beating at hands of paramilitary
— “A 19-year-old woman who was wounded by Iranian paramilitary forces with clubs escaped with her camera and shared her photos with CNN — after tricking a paramilitary soldier into thinking she had given him the images on a disk.”
— “He hit me and he was twice [as big] as me — he was so big. And I said, ‘You want to hit me?’ And he said, ‘Yes’ and then he hit me with a club.”
(Iran) CNN: iReports in Iran: “Unrest in Iran”
http://www.ireport.com/ir-topic-stories.jspa?start=0&topicId=270440
(Iran) Newsweek journalist detained in Iran: Magazine — Maziar Bahari
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Newsweek-journalist-detained-in-Iran-Magazine/articleshow/4685319.cms
(Iran) Arrests of Rafsanjani kin show Iran clerics split
— “There was no word on any new clashes Sunday, although after dark many people in Tehran went to their rooftops to shout ‘Death to the dictator’ and ‘Allahu akbar,’ a common form of defiance in recent days.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iran_election
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/arrests-rafsanjani-kin-show-iran-clerics-split/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31469914/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
(Iran) Mousavi: People are entitled to protest fraud and lies
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245184890769&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Iranian Filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf: Ahmadinejad Has Soiled the Streets of Iran with Blood and Wants to Lead the Region to War
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD241509
(Iran) Khamenei’s Representative in Syria, Mojtaba Al-Hosseini: The West Is Behind Demonstrations in Iran
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD241409
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a Tehran Friday Sermon: In Every Election There Are Winners and There Are Losers
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD241309
(Iran) Israel’s Netanyahu: Iranian Regime’s Repressive Nature ‘Unmasked’ by Election Turmoil
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/21/netanyahu-iranian-regimes-repressive-nature-unmasked-election-turmoil/
(Iraq) London Times: “Iranian mujahadeen rally in Iraq”
— “As reports come in that Iranian officials have arrested several members of the main exiled opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), their fellow Mujahadeen have been rallying in Iraq.”
http://timesonline.typepad.com/inside_iraq_weblog/2009/06/iranian-mujihadeen-rally-in-iraq.html
Iran and Britain in diplomatic stand-off as protest death toll rises
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6548540.ece