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International - Discrimination - USA

25 December 2009

Apology Not Accepted...

Among his other sources of conflict with members of the Tribe are his persistently, one-sided takes on Arab-Israeli issues culminating in his book equating Israel with the former apartheid regime of South Africa. Carter claims (...)continue

Human rights - Morocco - Identity

24 March 2009

The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity

Preliminary remarks about Morocco’s report on human rights practices that will be discussed with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on 20 April,2009 Despite the fact that the country is (...)continue

Human rights - Diaspora - Arabism

23 February 2009

Rabat forbids berber names

The Dutch from Morocco can’t give berber names to their children according to moroccan authorities. Thus, the Islamic identity is being emphasized. This week, the moroccan government sent a list of forbidden names to all the (...)continue

International - Islam - Nederland

30 January 2009

Morocco Bans Unislamic Names, including Berber ones...in Netherlands

THE HAGUE, 29/01/09 - Moroccans in the Netherlands are not allowed to give their children any Berber names any more. In this way, Islamic identity is being stressed, Trouw newspaper reported yesterday. By far the biggest group of (...)continue

Human rights - Kabylia

24 September 2008

Amazigh Names Rejected by the Authorities in Tizi-Wuzu

Nobody has expected such a scorn case of the Amazigh (Berber) identity denial at the heart of kabylia. The officials of the public record department or the civil status of the city of Tizi-Wuzu are not at their first misdemeanor. In (...)continue

Human rights - Europe

19 September 2008

Amazigh democratic party wrote to the president of the European Parliament, Mr. Hans-Gert POTTENG, about human rights violation in Morocco

To Mr. Hans-Gert POTTENG, President of the European Parliament, The Members of The European Parliament Subject: Human Rights in Morocco The European Union is linked to Morocco by an "Association Agreement" which entered into force (...)continue

News - Conflict - Dictatorship

29 June 2008

International press conference , invitation

A representative delegation of Berber-organisations in Kabylia ( Algeria ) , Morocco and the Tuareg-people ( Mali & Niger ) is coming up to meet representative elected members of the European Commission , the Flemish Parliament and (...)continue

Children

12 May 2008

When Will Godot Come to Kids in Anefgu?

"The tears of the world are constant quality. For each one who begin to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of a laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us (...)continue

Human rights - France

29 March 2008

Imazighen does not exist in the U.N. agenda

In French > 21. Community members stated that the commonly felt sense of exclusion and alienation is leading to an unfortunate anti‑integration reaction, in which members of minority groups are retreating from mainstream (...)continue

Regional

5 October 2007

The Strategies of the Algerian regime to subdue Kabylia

Kabylia, a particularly mountainous area, is located east of Algiers and has today a population of about 5 000 000 inhabitants, among whom more than 99 % are Kabyle native speakers. This region, though well-known for its die-hard (...)continue

International - Racism

27 April 2007

World Amazigh Congress: Letter to Kadafi

Mr Mouammar Kadhafi Leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya Tripoli-Libya April 11th, 2007 I do not know if it is by choice that you expressed yourself on the Amazigh question in this symbolic day, for you, of March 2, 2007, which is the (...)continue

Human rights

12 February 2007

An American witness

This is a letter written by a concerned American that is presently living and doing business in Morocco. I am truly amazed by what I observed this past weekend (Saturday 3 February 2007). The following is a synopsis of the event that (...)continue

International

5 February 2007

Don’t shoot the film in Kurdish

The famous Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi who has been chosen as one of the top living 100 filmmakers in the world last year will no longer be able to shoot a film in Iran according to the decision of Cinema Office of Iranian Culture (...)continue

Human rights

12 April 2006

Briton’s book gives voice to gay Arabs

’Unspeakable Love’ takes overdue look at region’s most misunderstood lifestyle BEIRUT: When Salim, a 20-year-old Egyptian, told his family that he was gay, they packed him off for six months of psychiatric treatment. (...)continue

Opinion

24 March 2006

A foolish new attraction to oppressive Arab nationalism

A foolish new attraction to oppressive Arab nationalism By Rayyan al-Shawaf We are at a critical juncture in the history of the Middle East and North Africa. The continuing and oftentimes violent debate over Iraq’s national and (...)continue

Human rights

20 March 2006

Marocco, arrest of 9 Amazighs militant students in Agadir

We, the militants of the Amazigh cause in Beni Mellal, bitterly denounce the arrestation of 9 students of the Amazigh Movement (Ayt Ghighush) in the university of Agadir, Morocco. The latters wanted to organise a cultural activity but (...)continue

Human rights

9 March 2006

Assessment for Tuareg in Niger

Risk Assessment The Tuareg in Niger exhibit several risk factors for rebellion, including territorial concentration and regime instability in the recent past. Many of the grievances that sparked the 1990 rebellion have yet to be (...)continue

Politics

5 March 2006

Arabization

A repeated theme among anti-Amazigh propagandists is that the Amazigh identity was created by the French and that the Amazigh militants are traitors, working for the French. A common insult is to call the Amazigh "sons of the White (...)continue

Europe

26 February 2006

Institutional discrimination

Inquiry of INED to measure diversity in France: the Berber ignored in France The INED (National Institute of Demographic Studies) is a worthy institution which notably produces the censuses of the French population. It would seem (...)continue

Human rights

4 May 2002

Chomsky in North Kurdistan: Mother tongue is the most basic human right

London (KurdishMedia.com) 15 February 2002: Noam Chomsky, the world famous linguist and an intellectual known for his criticism of American foreign policy, is in Amed (Diyarbakir), Kurdistan by an invitation from the Diyarbakir (...)continue

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