Full Coverage: Middle East

31.01.2007 A call has been made for the immediate release of Karim Amer, the first Egyptian blogger to be tried for writing blogs criticising Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, President Husni Mubarak and Islam.

31.01.2007 Dr. Rashad Zidan and the women of Iraq have been voted People of 2006 by OneWorlders across the planet.

30.01.2007 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.

30.01.2007 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.

26.01.2007 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.

25.01.2007 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.

25.01.2007 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.

16.01.2007 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

16.01.2007 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.

15.01.2007 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.

10.01.2007 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.

10.01.2007 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.

09.01.2007 President Bush will face a surge of protest after he calls for more U.S. troops in Iraq this week.

08.01.2007 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.

08.01.2007 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.

08.01.2007 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.

05.01.2007 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...

05.01.2007 Nancy Pelosi isn't the only woman to have broken a long-standing "marble ceiling" recently. In Iran, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates women have been elected as well.

05.01.2007 Egypt needs a new political parties law that respects Egyptians' rights to form political parties and to vote for whomever they choose, Human Rights Watch said Thursday ahead of a key judicial decision in the country.
From: Human Rights Watch

03.01.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 3 (OneWorld) - Peace groups across the United States marked the 3,000th U.S. military death in Iraq with protests and vigils this weekend and promised to continue to press to end the war.