Please make a generous gift today and fill out the secure form to make a one-time donation.
We can't do this lifesaving work without your help. You can make an immediate lifesaving difference and give hope to children, mothers and fathers around the world.įor 80 years, CRS has been providing expertise and compassion to the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters in more than 100 countries. And women find dignity in opportunities for savings and training. Farmers learn innovative ways to plant and grow crops despite drought or disease. When you give, refugees find safety and receive emergency assistance and trauma counseling. You help mothers and babies around the world receive nutritional care and health exams. You help prevent trafficking and provide welcome kits for survivors. When you give, you help fill the bellies of young children so they can study hard in school. Photo by Benny Manser/CRS Your compassion helps those in need around the world.Įvery gift you give helps a child thrive, brings hope to a family and rebuilds a community.
The comments angered the prime minister’s coalition partners, and failed to placate protesters opposed to the plans.Ī poll released on Sunday by Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, found that 31% of Israelis are in favour of the changes, while 43% oppose them.A CRS program in Indonesia provides health awareness for mothers with toddlers. He also said that another contested proposal, giving politicians more control over the appointment of judges, would be revised. The demonstrators succeeded in forcing Netanyahu to announce a freeze to the judicial changes in March after a day of wildcat strikes paralysed the country, including Tel Aviv’s airport, Israel’s main international gateway.Ĭompromise talks with opposition parties brokered by the figurehead president, Isaac Herzog, collapsed last month, despite a surprise announcement from Netanyahu that one of the most hotly debated elements of the overhaul – an override clause allowing the Knesset to overturn most supreme court rulings – would be dropped. The proposals have triggered a constitutional and economic crisis, exposing deep political rifts in Israeli society and sparking the biggest protest movement in the country’s history. Palestinian citizens of Israel, who face systemic discrimination, as well as those living under military rule in the occupied territories, have long questioned Israel’s democratic character. Significant protest pressure has come from Israel’s vaunted hi-tech sector, the military and allies in the US. Its supporters say the changes are needed to rein in what they see as a leftwing bias in the decisions of the court, which serves an outsized role in a country with no formal constitution and only one legislative chamber.Ĭritics, however, have raised fears of democratic backsliding, and say the changes will aid Netanyahu’s fight against graft charges, which he denies. Netanyahu’s coalition of rightwing and ultra-Orthodox parties – the most rightwing in the country’s history – introduced a package of sweeping judicial changes shortly after he returned to office in December.Īmong the plans are bills that would give politicians control over appointments to Israel’s supreme court and severely curtail its ability to overturn laws. Leaders of the pro-democracy protest movement have said demonstrations are planned on Monday night, and a “day of disruption” across the country will take place if the bill passes the first of three readings. The decision was met with anger by Deri’s ultra-Orthodox party and supporters. The supreme court used the clause in January to order Netanyahu to remove the interior minister, Aryeh Deri, a key ally, from the cabinet, because of a previous tax evasion conviction.
0 kommentar(er)
