Full Coverage: Middle East

06/24/2008 In this upcoming documentary, an Iraqi journalist shares his story of being wrongfully jailed in Abu Ghraib Prison for allegedly planning to kill former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

06/19/2008 Hundreds of children, including 240 orphans, will be affected by the Israeli military's recent decision to shut down schools and orphanages belonging to the Islamic Charitable Society.

06/18/2008 Jerusalem's Domari Gypsies, chronically ignored and discriminated against in the midst of a wider conflict, find pride in their culture at a Community Center designed especially for Gypsy women.

06/17/2008 Sait Sanli, a 64-year old former butcher and cattle-raiser, is practically a professional peacekeeper, single-handedly ending hundreds of blood feuds in his native southeastern Turkey.

06/13/2008 The Caterpillar corporation came under fire during its shareholder meeting yesterday for continuing to sell machinery to Israel that is used to demolish Palestinian homes.

06/12/2008 JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, Jun 11 (IPS) - In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza's only emergency medical facility in the massive Jebaliya refugee camp, doctors, nurses, aides, and administrators are ready to provide emergency surgery services for the area's 300,000 people.

06/11/2008 The Egyptian Parliament passed a new children's rights bill last week that makes female genital mutilation a crime punishable by fine or jail time and raises the legal age of marriage to 18.

06/10/2008 The Iraqi women's movement has a long history of male and female support, but the current violence has undermined the struggle for equal rights, says Iraqi activist Haifa Zangana.

06/09/2008 The Iraqi government recently pledged $195 million to accommodate returning refugees, but it must wait for security conditions to improve significantly for a sustained period of time before encouraging mass repatriation, said an international refugee agency last week.
From: Refugees International

06/06/2008 Former teacher Bushra Jamil returned to Iraq in 2003 to start the country's first progressive radio station for women, which has flourished over the years despite the constant threat of violence and government opposition.

06/05/2008 "Today more than half of all Americans live under local or state proclamations of opposition to the U.S. military presence in Iraq," write policy analysts Ben Manski and Karen Dolan.
From: YES! Magazine

06/02/2008 Iraq War veteran Jon Michael Turner testifies about the assaults he and other American soldiers committed at one of several Winter Soldier hearings held this spring.
From: American News Project