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Rights, Freedoms and Repression
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Thursday March 25, 2010 02:03 by Tom
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Caoimhe Butterly (born 1978) is an Irish human rights activist, who has worked with AIDSvictims in Zimbabwe, the homeless inutterly New York, and with Zapatistas in Mexico as well as more recently in the Middle East and haiti. In 2002, during an Israeli attack in Jenin, she was shot by an Israeli soldier. She spent 16 days inside the compound where Yasser Arafat was besieged in Ramallah.[1] She was described by Time Magazine as one of their Europeans of the Year in 2003. Butterly is a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), an organisation that seeks non-violent alternatives to armed intifada by mobilising international civil society |