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دبلوماسية التحرر الوطني: التجربة الفلسطينية ، مقاربات في القانون الدولي و العلاقات الدولية
No full textCommunity engagement from the margin : zionism and the case of the Palestinian student movement in the Israeli Universities
No full textThe recently emerging concept of community engagement is better conceived as a context dependent concept. However, when examining the case of native communities living in colonial situations, community engagement by universities of the colonial authorities fail to capture the level of grassroots organizing among students of the colonized communities as a form of community engagement, albeit community engagement from the margin. The Palestinian community in Israel, lives in a colonial situation in its own homeland where the Israeli universities have been established as an integral part of the Zionist colonial project in Palestine. As the Palestinian formal educational system, hegemonic and identity blurring, the Palestinian Student Movement in the Israeli universities is conceived as a grassroots form of community engagement intending to reconstruct and reassert a shared sense of collective-national identity among the Palestinian students within the Israel campuses. Furthermore, Palestinian student activists are involved in community grassroots organizing and action within their own home communities and places of residence. This form of grassroots organizing and political action by members of colonized communities, calls our attention to re-conceptualization of the conventional understanding of the concept of university-community engagement
القانون و السياسة : الخيارات و الإستراتيجيات التي يتيحها القانون الدولي لفلسطين : مؤتمر القانون الدولي الذي نظمه معهد الحقوق في جامعة بيرزيت، و الإئتلاف الأهلي للحقوق الفلسطينية في القدس و مشروع تفكيك االإستعمار في فلسطين : عقد في حرم جامعة بيرزيت على مدى يومي 8-9 أيار / مايو 2013 : ملخص وقائع المؤتمر و النتائج التي خلص إليها
No full textThis guide is an outcome of the conference “Options and Strategies of International Law for the
Palestinian People” held at the Birzeit University Institute of Law in May 2013.1
It aims to help nonlawyers
understand and apply international law to Israel’s oppressive regime over the entire
Palestinian people: those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1967 (OPT), Palestinian citizens
of Israel and the refugees since 1948. It explains briefly:
1) Why speaking only about “occupation” is not enough;
2) Why we should rather speak about (settler) colonialism, population transfer (ethnic
cleansing) and apartheid, in addition to occupation;
3) How we can do so in accordance with international law; and,
4) Why colonialism, population transfer and apartheid, as legal frameworks, are helpful for
building pressure on third parties to take action against Israel’s oppressive regime
القانون و السياسة : الخيارات و الإستراتيجيات التي يتيحها القانون الدولي لفلسطين : مؤتمر القانون الدولي الذي نظمه معهد الحقوق في جامعة بيرزيت، و الإئتلاف الأهلي للحقوق الفلسطينية في القدس و مشروع تفكيك االإستعمار في فلسطين : عقد في حرم جامعة بيرزيت على مدى يومي 8-9 أيار / مايو 2013 : ملخص وقائع المؤتمر و النتائج التي خلص إليها
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وصول النساء ذوات الإعاقة لأركان العدالة الرسمية : دراسة بالمشاركة لواقع النساء ذوات الإعاقة في الأراضي الفلسطينية و المخيمات الفلسطينية في لبنان و التأطير لاستراتيجيات تدخل
No full textتحضير و تشخيص مواد مستندة للحديد بمقياس النانو و استخدامها لإزالة الأصباغ السالبة و الموجبة
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Self-care and glycaemic control : a crosssectional study
No full textDiabetes mellitus type 2 is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), with a
prevalence of 12·5% in adults aged 25—64 years in 2010—11. Studies of the management and control of diabetes mellitus in
the oPt are lacking. The association between diabetes self-care, provider recommendations, and glycaemic control was
investigated in a sample of adults with diabetes mellitus type 2 in Ramallah, West Bank, oPt.
Methods
A sample of 517 individuals with diabetes mellitus type 2 (166 men and 351 women who were not pregnant) was selected
from 11 diabetes clinics owned by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH; n=5), UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (n=4), and jointly by non-governmental organisations and MoH (n=2). The number of individuals
selected from each clinic was proportional to the number of patients being treated for diabetes at the clinic. Patients were
identified from the clinics' databases; 62 (11%) of 579 refused to participate. All participants provided verbal informed
consent. The Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities questionnaire was used to assess self-care behaviour and providers'
recommendations. The glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) test was done to assess glycaemic control. Data were gathered
during March to June, 2012, and analysed with SPSS (version 18.0). Logistic regression analysis was used to ascertain factors
associated with poor glycaemic control. Approval to undertake the study was obtained from the Institute of Community and
Public Health, Birzeit University, Ramallah, West Bank, oPt.
Findings
The mean HbA1c was 8·8% (73 mmol/mol [SD 2·0 and 2, respectively]). One in five patients had glycaemic control (HbA1c
<7%). 303 (59%) of 517 participants did not have a healthy eating plan, 276 (53%) of 516 did not exercise, 307 (59%) of 516
did not check their blood sugar level, 86 (17%) of 517 were not given nutritional advice, 127 (25%) of 517 were not given
advice about exercise, and 341 (66%) had not been advised to check their blood sugar regularly. Results of the logistic
regression analysis showed that demographics, socioeconomic status, self-care, and providers' recommendations for self-care
were not associated with poor glycaemic control. The only significant finding was a negative association between poor
glycaemic control and duration of diabetes (p<0·001).
Interpretation
The results of this study show that although patients in the West Bank are provided medication, health education and
monitoring are insufficient and support is non-existent—these would help patients to control their diabetes mellitus. Further
research is needed to confirm these findings