Forum for Global Exchange
2009
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Israel Bans "Catastrophe" Term from Arab Schools
July 22, 2009Israel will remove from school textbooks an Arabic term that describes the 1948 creation of the Jewish state as a "catastrophe", the Education Ministry said on Wednesday.More -
CWIS in Uganda
July 16, 2009In May 2009, CWIS Associate Scholar Anke Weisheit was appointed Principle Investigator (PI) for Uganda Mbarara University of Science and Technology.
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Kurds Defy Baghdad, Laying Claim to Land and Oil
July 09, 2009With little notice and almost no public debate, IraqMore -
Fondly, Greenland Loosens Danish Rule
June 21, 2009Greenland, with 58,000 people and only two traffic lights, both of them here in the capital, is now securing its place in the world. On Sunday, amid solemn ceremony and giddy celebration, it ushered in a new era of self-governance… more >>More -
One Indigenous Person Murdered Every 72 Hours in Colombia
June 18, 2009With 1,300 indigenous Colombians having been killed in the last seven years as a result of the ongoing conflict, at the end of May, the country's indigenous leaders announced plans to form a 100,000-strong "national indigenous… more >>More -
BOFF (Biafra Organization of Freedom Fighters) Alert
June 18, 2009The problem of the Niger Delta is not a "development problem." It is a "justice problem." If the Hausa Fulani Yoruba leave the land, mineral and water of the Niger Delta for the people who own those things the problem in the Niger… more >>Download -
Demolitions, Uprooting, Destruction, and More Demolitions
June 18, 2009This dispatch was transmitted by Dr. Yeela Livnat Raanan of the Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev (RCUV).More
It relates to indigenous Bedouin communities in Israel and their treatment by the… more >>