El Comité Nacional Palestino de BDS y organizaciones latinoamericanas hacen un llamado a los grupos de Derechos Humanos, movimientos sociales y la sociedad civil en general para que este 9 de julio se sumen al Día de Acción para denunciar a la cementera mexicana CEMEX, la cual está directamente facilitando y lucrando con el apartheid, la ocupación y la colonización israelíes contra el pueblo palestino.
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Daughter of Abdullah Barghoutti, sentenced to several life sentences, reads a letter to his father
Syrian people maintain their fight against aggression of the United States and its allies | Photo: EFE
More than 450,000 people have been killed, while 11 million are now refugees or displaced. At least 652 children were killed in 2016, 255 of them near a school. Another 850 were recruited to fight in the conflict. These are the unfortunate figures that have left six years of war in Syria.
What are the real reasons that have prolonged this war?
The Spanish professor Jose Antonio Egido explained that among the reasons for the war is the destruction of the pan-Arabism, the movement that seeks the integration of the Arab town nd of which Syria is cradle.
The right of every person not to be subjected to ill-treatment or torture (physical or psychological) is one of the few human rights that are considered absolute. As an absolute right, it may never be "balanced out" against other rights and values, nor suspended or limited, even in difficult circumstances such as war or fighting terrorism. This right now holds the highest and most binding status in international law. Nevertheless, until the late 1990s, the Israel Security Agency (ISA, formerly the General Security Service) routinely used methods that constituted ill-treatment and even torture in interrogating Palestinian residents of the Occupied Territories, relying on the recommendations of a state commission headed by retired Supreme Court Justice Moshe Landau. The Commission had held that, in order to prevent terrorism, ISA agents were permitted to use "psychological pressure" and a "moderate degree of physical pressure". This permission was grounded, in the Commission's opinion, in the "necessity defense" in the Penal Law.