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<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 02:59:02 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Israel: Uphold the right to land and decent living for Bedouins in the Naqab</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1085/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Iran uses intimidation to deter Arab protests</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1084/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Iranian regime is using racist propaganda, intimidation and violent repression to deter protests by its persecuted Arab citizens. It has imposed martial&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1084/</guid>
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<title>SYRIAC MEMBERS CAPTURED IN SYRIA</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1066/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ SYRIAC MEMBERS CAPTURED IN SYRIA


FOR URGENT RELEASE
April 04, 2012
Brussels


Today at the morning hours, the Syrian Security Forces captured&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1066/</guid>
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<title>Syria/Iraq: Toward the end of Syriac Christians?</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1028/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1028/</guid>
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<title>Photo story: Inside Egypt's Revolution</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1017/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1017/</guid>
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<title>Syria: Kurds killed, abducted and subject to surveillance by security forces</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1006/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The current situation in the Kurdish areas is anything but stable. In the majority of Kurdish cities, and especially in Al-Jazira, the Syrian military&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1006/</guid>
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<title>Iran arrests, tortures and kills Ahwazi Arabs in new clampdown</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/988/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Ahwazi Arab community is witnessing a fresh wave of arrests, detentions and killings at the hands of the Iranian regime, which has instituted martial&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/988/</guid>
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<title>New report: 2011 a turbulent year for Iran's Ahwaz</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/960/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Last year was a turbulent and violent year for Iran’s persecuted and impoverished Ahwazi Arab and Mandean communities who populate the oil-rich southwestern&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/960/</guid>
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<title>Syria: new report on right to self-determination of Kurds</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/943/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A report about the Right on Self-determination for the Kurds in Syria in the international law and in the praxis.
Index 
1- The Kurdish National Conference&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/943/</guid>
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<title>Israel: Interview with Hanan Al Sanah, a Bedouin womens' rights activist</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/906/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Bedouin Arab women face high rates of poverty. They face disproportionately low levels of education and employment compared to other Israeli women. They&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/906/</guid>
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<title>Israel's Bedouin Arabs at risk: the Prawer plan</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/907/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ 30,000 Bedouin Arabs in Israel are going to be evicted from their homes as part of a new government plan. The Bedouin have for decades been fighting&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/907/</guid>
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<title>MRG photo story: Uncertain future for Israel's indigenous Bedouin</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/901/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ we need to add some text also here ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/901/</guid>
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<title>Iran: Four Ahwazi Human Rights Activists Arrested for Organising Arabic Cultural Activities</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/892/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Four Ahwazi Human Rights Activists Arrested for Organising Arabic Cultural Activities.
Five Arab teachers have been arrested in the city of Hamidiya Arabistan&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/892/</guid>
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<title>Under Media Blackout 12 Arab farmers Killed by Iranian Forces in Swiseh village</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/893/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ European Ahwazi Human Rights Organization has learnt that Iran has killed 12 Arab farmers after they resisted confiscation of their land in Swiseh village.&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/893/</guid>
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<title>Iran Fires 105 Ahwazi Workers</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/894/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  EAHRO has learned that Iran has intensified its crackdown against at least1,000 Ahwazi Arab workers in Ahwaz Pipe Factory and Ahwaz municipality on the&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/894/</guid>
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<title>The situation in the Syrian Kurdish areas worsens</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/794/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The Situation in the Syrian Kurdish Areas Exacerbates. The spark of the Syrian uprising against the Syrian regime was first lit in March 2011, in Deraa,&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/794/</guid>
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<title>Syria in change - Solution for the Kurdish issue</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/793/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Since 15th March of this year, citizens rose up against the regime in Syria, which is considered as one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/793/</guid>
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<title>Ahwazi Refugees plight in Al-Waleed camp</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/784/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Ahwazi people, These vulnerable people fled Iran and death threats have found themselves in horrendous conditions in the desert. The camp lacks from poor&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/784/</guid>
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<title>Iran: Mayor Fires 400 Ahwazi Workers </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/785/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Ktanbaf Mansoor, mayor of Ahwaz and Iranian revolutionary guard official Fired 400 Ahwazi workers apparently for  participating in or supporting pro-democracy&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/785/</guid>
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<title>Iran: Baha’i educational programme targeted in raids</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/721/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A coordinated series of raids have been carried out against the homes of several Iranian Baha’is, active in a community initiative to provide a higher&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/721/</guid>
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<title>Al-Ahwaz: Iran's best-kept dirty secret</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/715/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Ahwazi's have not only been denied their most basic civil, political and human rights, they have been tortured, imprisoned and killed in the most brutal&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/715/</guid>
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<title>Iran: Stop Ethnic Cleansings In Ahwaz </title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/709/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ 
We the undersigned, write to you out of deep concern for Iran’s increasingly brutal crackdown on the Ahwazi Arabs human rights activists and peaceful&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/709/</guid>
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<title>Yemen: voices of the Akhdam minority</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/681/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ I'm Sami Al-Naggar, head of All Youth Network  in Yemen - I belong to an ethnic minority called Akhdam, in fact I am an ambitious young man looking for&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/681/</guid>
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<title>Support the peaceful demonstrators in Syria</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/629/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The people in Syria went on the streets in Daraa, Damascus, Lattakia, Homs,
Qamishli and many other cities and showed their will to have change in their
country.&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/629/</guid>
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<title>Egypt: Al Kalema Centre condemns barbaric attacks against Anba Beshouy monastery</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1087/</link>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1087/</guid>
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<title>Young Journalist Award runner up: Street racing queen of Ramallah</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/705/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Minority Rights Group International, in March 2011, announced the winner of the Minority Voices Young Journalist Award - a prize for young professionals&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/705/</guid>
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<title>A poem from Iran: Al Ahwaz, it shall be free</title>
<link>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1011/</link>
<description><![CDATA[ His son falls to tears, holding him tight,
Asking and begging not to risk another heartbeat.
He steps out and disappears,
not days, not weeks, not months,&hellip; ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid>http://minorityvoices.org/news.php/en/1011/</guid>
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