9 July 08 - Ahmed (not his real name) has been sleeping near a secondary school in the centre of Sanaa city, Yemen’s capital, for almost a year. He said he had come from the northern governorate of Amran to work and support his family back (...) Read

2 July 08 - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return (...) Read

2 July 08 - The Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr Hasun, the top Muslim cleric in Syria, announced that female graduates of Islamic law colleges are being trained to become muftis who will counsel women on religious matters. Read

23 June 08 - JURIST Guest Columnist Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University in Canada says that although the Egyptian government’s recent extension of the emergency law may be the last in a string of renewals over the past half-century, this does not have pro-democracy activists dancing in the (...) Read

23 June 08 - Release from the PCATI - A report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) published this morning reveals the widespread phenomenon of violence against bound Palestinian detainees by IDF soldiers and the almost absolute indifference of the IDF, the Ministry of Defense and the (...) Read

29 May 08 - There has been an increase in the number of Israeli-imposed restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank over the past eight months, according to a UN report. Read

18 May 08 - Addameer - Since the beginning of this Intifada in September 2000, over 2500 children have been arrested. Currently there are at least 340 Palestinian children being held in Israeli Prisons. According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into (...) Read

13 May 08 - Center for Democracy and Rule of Law - It is hard for foreign observers to grasp that the districting for general parliamentary elections in Lebanon is not guided by any recent population census that draws the demographic map and measures the demographic changes in and between villages and (...) Read

7 May 08 - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR strongly condemns the continuation of arbitrary arrests and torture of prisoners by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank. The Centre continues to monitor human rights violations by these security services; and fieldworkers are finding it (...) Read

24 April 08 - Residents of a western Baghdad neighbourhood have said militant groups in the area are hunting down women and killing them, and have appealed to parliament to do something, a member of parliament (MP) said on 22 April. Read