News stories by Rachel Giora

As the world watches the "Arab Spring" unfold in the Middle East -a reaction against decades of oppression and suppression of civil society- there are disturbing signs that Israel is stealthily moving to dismantle some key civil rights and quiet the voices calling for justice and equality for the Palestinians, write Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban landmines and Rachel Giora of the Coalition of Women for Peace, based in Tel Aviv.