Full Coverage: Middle East

04/28/2006 Un Fax e una e-mail per fermare un Muro in costruzione da pochi giorni, nonostante la Corte Israeliana deve ancora pronunciare e nonostante il Muro avrà delle conseguneze catastrofiche isolando più di mille persone in Masafer Yatta, in una delle zone più povere della Cisgiordania, a sud di Hebron. Operazione Colomba ha raccolto la richiesta dei palestinesie del posto, del ACRI (Associazione per i Diritti Civili in Israele) e delle associaizoni pacifiste isareliane che lavorano con al popolazione in modo nonviolento per resisterre all'espansione dei coloni etremsiti nell'area. Per favore contatta i politici israeliani elencati sotto per sollecitarli ad imporre uno stop immediato alla costruzione del muro lungo la strada 317 nella zona delle South Hebron Hills.

04/27/2006 Sono il capitano dell'Esercito Nicola Ciardelli, il maresciallo capo Latanzio Franco e il maresciallo capo dei carabinieri Carlo de Trizioi tre militari italiani morti nell'attentato di stamane a Nassiriya. Dell'attentato è rimasto vittima anche un militare rumeno e oltre ai cinque militari a bordo del mezzo colpito ci sarebbero "molti" altri militari del convoglio diversi dei quali in gravi condizioni. Non è ancora chiara la dinamica dell'attentato: secondo le prime informazioni, tuttavia, la bomba sarebbe stata fatta esplodere al passaggio di un convoglio della Msu, l'Unità speciale multinazionale guidata dall'Arma. L'esplosione avrebbe investito in pieno uno dei tre mezzi, devastandolo. "Sgomento e immenso dolore" viene espresso dal presidente della Repubblica, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi e da tutte le forze politiche. L'ultima "azione ostile" nei confronti dei militari italiani si era avuta solo 5 giorni fa: un ordigno posto ai lati della carreggiata, fatto esplodere, anche in quel caso, al passaggio di un convoglio. Ma si parlò di una bomba a basso potenziale e di un'azione che poteva dunque essere soltanto dimostrativa. Con quelli di oggi sale a 29 il numero dei militari italiani morti nell'operazione in Iraq.

04/26/2006 Literacy and vocational training programs in Nepal, Egypt, and elsewhere are giving women and men the skills they need to advocate for more educational opportuities in their villages and nationwide. It's Global Education Action Week--find out more!

04/20/2006 Länsivallat ovat pidättäneet liki miljardin dollarin edestä avustusvaroja Palestinalta, vaatien Hamasia tunnustamaan Israelin ja hyväksymään Oslon rauhanehdot. Toimenpide saattaa johtaa ääriliikkeiden vahvistumiseen tai humanitaariseen kriisiin, ajaen Palestiinan kansan entistä heikompaan asemaan, kirjoittaa Ian Guest.

04/19/2006 Conocer del engaño del gobierno norteamericano le ha costado la vida a mas de 2,300 jóvenes norteamericanos. 49 puertorriqueños han muerto.

04/19/2006 Western donors' withholding of almost $1 billion from the Palestinian National Authority in an effort to force Hamas to recognise Israel and accept the Oslo Peace Accords will fuel extremism, create a humanitarian crisis, and undermine Palestinian civil society, says Ian Guest.

04/19/2006 Vähintään 60 000 irakilaista on joutunut jättämään kotinsa sen jälkeen, kun shiiamuslimien moskeijaa Samarrassa pommitettiin 23. helmikuuta, viranomaiset arvioivat huhtikuun puolivälissä.

04/18/2006 On the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura designated Lebanese journalist May Chidiac, winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2006.

04/17/2006 By cutting funding to elected Palestinian representatives, the US and the EU are dooming the region to continued chaos, argues Michelle Woodward.

04/15/2006 US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, a rights group claimed on the basis of a leaked report by the Army Inspector General.

04/14/2006 The Lebanese government is being urged to drop a defamation charge against lawyer Dr Muhamad Mugraby for remarks made to a European Parliament delegation almost three years ago.

04/13/2006 BAGHDAD, Apr 13 (IPS) - The execution of 13 suspected insurgents in March marked a revival of the death penalty in Iraq - and sparked a debate among Iraqis about whether capital punishment should be written into the laws of a modern society.

04/13/2006 The international community’s financial boycott of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority will likely lead to a major humanitarian crisis, warns Dr. Tawfiq Nasser, CEO of Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem.
* Palestinian Territories: MSF refuses to be a 'social palliative' of EU & US policies
* Deterioration in humanitarian and security environment

04/12/2006 UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein enriched both the Iraqi dictator and corporations able to manipulate the world body's Oil-for-Food programme. Among the profiteers, reports Marc Moncrief, was the Australian Wheat Board, which funnelled $208 million into Saddam's coffers even as the “Coalition of the Willing” was preparing for invasion.

04/10/2006 An "Underground Railroad" is being set up to help rescue Iraqi women threatened with honour killings.

04/10/2006 Over the course of nearly three years, 27-year-old Yemeni Salah 'Ali Qaru was transported to several secret detention centers and subjected to cruel and inhumane torture. Read his story and learn about the U.S. policy of "rendition."

04/07/2006 A strategy on non-formal education for Iraq’s 600,000 out-of-school children - three-quarters of whom are girls - has been agreed by the government and the UN.

04/05/2006 The London Palestine Film Festival, the largest of its type in Europe, returns for a second year to the Barbican and the School of Oriental and African Studies, with a one-week programme (21 April to 5 May) of rarely seen archive films and critically acclaimed hits of recent years - many introduced by special guests, filmmakers and actors.

04/05/2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 5 (OneWorld) - Lawmakers appealed to colleagues Wednesday to ''stop rubberstamping'' the war in Iraq and instead debate policy toward that country--37 months after the U.S.-led invasion that led to the current, bloody imbroglio.

04/05/2006 A rift is forming in Turkey among foreign policy makers. Many see Turkey as a future bridge between the West and the Middle East, but others caution that forming close ties in the Middle East now will harm current relations with Western powers.