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External sources (not reviewed)

Establishment of networks of researchers and other persons involved in intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean region, including the network of historical Mediterranean dockyards, Navigation of Knowledge; Setting up of a high-level group of researchers from various countries of the south and north of the Mediterranean working to combat stereotypes and prejudice in education; Publication and wide circulation of a work on the Mediterranean as a regional area.

However, traditional stereotypes existed in society, and therefore the Government acknowledged the need for greater efforts in terms of public awareness activities and training to change persistent attitudes in society.

Life-cycle rituals – birth; rites of passage; wedding, divorce and funerary rituals; games and sports; kinship and ritual kinship ceremonies; settlement patterns; culinary arts; designation of status and prestige ceremonies; seasonal ceremonies; gender-specific social practices; practices relating to hunting, fishing and gathering; geonymic and patronymic nomenclature; silk culture and crafts (production [fabrication], sewing, dyeing, cloth designs); wood carving; textiles; body-art (tattooing, piercing, painting).

Israel’s continuation of such illegal policies and practices, in addition to its continuing illegal, inhumane and shameful blockade of the Gaza Strip and the immeasurable suffering and trauma it is inflicting on the 1.5 million civilians imprisoned there, constitutes yet further irrefutable evidence of the occupying Power’s abject disregard for international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, as well as its rejection of the legitimate, inalienable and internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and freedom in their homeland.

MOST contributed to fostering policy responses to mitigate the negative social consequences of the financial crisis through a series of high-level fora: first, through a parallel event jointly organized by MOST and the Human Science Research Council of South Africa within the framework of the World Social Science Forum(Bergen, Norway, May 2009); secondly, through the thematic sessions addressing the issue at the Seventh Regional Forum of Ministers of Social Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (Quito, Ecuador, August 2009); and thirdly during the ninth session of the MOST Intergovernmental Council, on 29 September 2009.