Full Coverage: Middle East

01/31/2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan and the women of Iraq have been voted People of 2006 by OneWorlders across the planet.

01/30/2007 WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (OneWorld) - Hundreds of citizens from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill Monday to follow up on the weekend's mass demonstration calling for the reduction and ultimate end of U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

01/30/2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan, and the women of Iraq, have been working tirelessly to hold families together through the terrors of war. Nominated by the U.S.-based women's activist group CodePink, OneWorlders across the planet have voted them the People of 2006.

01/26/2007 A U.S. court martial has refused to hear an officer's argument that the war in Iraq is illegal. Last weekend, more than 600 U.S. citizens joined a distinguished tribunal panel to hear the testimony the military court wouldn't.

01/26/2007 Libanonin ponnistelut maan toipumiseksi viimevuotisten taisteluiden tuhoista ovat jälleen tienhaarassa, kun avunantajat tänään kokoontuvat Pariisiin jälleenrakennuskonferenssiin. YK:n kehitysohjelma UNDP vetoaa kansainväliseen yhteisöön huomion ja taloudellisen avun jatkumiseksi Libanonille.

01/25/2007 Now that George W. Bush has told the American people what he thinks of the state of the union, Council for a Livable World wants to hear what you think--about the speech, the decision to escalate the war in Iraq, and what the United States should be doing there.

01/25/2007 Hundreds of national and local groups are mobilizing for a powerful march on Washington Saturday that will call for U.S. troops to leave Iraq now.

01/17/2007 YK:n ihmisoikeusvaltuutettu Louise Arbour pahoitteli Awad Hamad Al-Bandarin ja Barzan Ibrahim Al-Hassanin teloituksia Bagdadissa maanantaina 15. tammikuuta. Miehet tuomittiin Dujailissa vuonna 1982 siviileihin kohdistuneista rikoksista. "Vastustan kuolemanrangaistusta kaikissa olosuhteissa," Arbour sanoo ja lisää, että toimeenpannut tuomiot voivat vaikeuttaa puolueettoman oikeusprosessin toteutumista vastaavissa tapauksissa myös tulevaisuudessa.

01/16/2007 More than 34,450 Iraqi civilians were killed and 36,685 injured last year, a UN report said today.
The Iraq Body Count website puts the civilian death toll since the invasion at between 53,832 and 59,447.
+ UN clashes with Iraq on civilian death toll

01/16/2007 The executions of Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former head of Iraq's revolutionary court were condemned by Amnesty today as a further lost opportunity for Iraqis to properly hold to account those responsible for past crimes.

01/15/2007 Transparency International today added its voice to demands that the British government and the Serious Fraud Office re-open the investigation into allegations of bribery in the Al Yamamah military contract between BAE Systems and the Saudi Arabian government.

01/10/2007 The Bush administration's plan to beef up the US military presence in Iraq is likely to create a new wave of protests across the United States in the coming days.

01/10/2007 YK:n pakolaisjärjestö UNHCR vaatii kaikkia maita myöntämään Etelä- ja Keski-Irakista paenneille turvapaikanhakijoille Geneven pakolaissopimuksen mukaisen pakolaisstatuksen. - Tämänhetkistä turvallisuustilannetta kuvaa äärimmäinen väkivalta Keski-Irakissa ja merkittävä epävakaus maan eteläosissa, Paal Aarsaether UNHCR:n Pohjois- ja Baltian maiden aluetoimistosta sanoo.

01/10/2007 NEW YORK, Jan 9 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's plan to beef up the U.S. military presence in Iraq is likely to create a new wave of protests across the United States in the coming days.

01/09/2007 L'incessante violenza in Iraq sta costringendo l'Alto Commissario per i Rifugiati dell'Onu (Unhcr) ad una "profonda revisione" del proprio programma di lavoro per affrontare i bisogni umanitari nella regione: mentre l'Unhcr si era precedentemente concentrato sul ritorno dei rifugiati, l'incessante violenza nel Paese implicherà la prosecuzione degli esodi interni ed esterni che colpiscono la regione circostante. L'Unhcr stima che 1,7 milioni di iracheni si trovino attualmente nella condizione di sfollati interni, mentre circa 2 milioni di persone sono fuggite nei paesi limitrofi. E sempre l'Unhcr comunica che numerosi cittadini iracheni stanno cercando rifugio fuori della regione geografica interessata arrivando anche in Europa e raccomanda ai governi che ai richiedenti asilo iracheni provenienti dal sud e dal centro del paese venga accordato lo status di rifugiato ai sensi della Convenzione sui Rifugiati del 1951.

01/09/2007 President Bush will face a surge of protest after he calls for more U.S. troops in Iraq this week.

01/08/2007 A documentary on Iraq is not about war and politics, but reveals a lot about the country and its people - or, at least, its men and boys.

01/08/2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan, and the women of Iraq, have been working tirelessly to hold families together through the terrors of war. Nominated by the U.S.-based women's activist group CodePink, OneWorlders across the planet have voted them the People of 2006. Learn more.

We gave OneWorlders a chance to send in questions for Dr. Zidan in Baghdad. Click here to read what she had to say.

01/08/2007 Sameer Padania looks at how bloggers around the world are debating the death penalty in the wake of the cellphone footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution.

01/05/2007 OneWorld published an article regarding the 3000-plus Americans killed during this awful war in Iraq and the Arlington West crosses on the beach in Santa Monica, California. Here, in Santa Barbara, that goes on every Sunday as well...