MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST: Weekly round-up Number 99 for 3
November- 9 November 2006
12 Nov 2006 14:37:10 GMT Source: IRIN
MIDDLE EAST, 12 November (IRIN) - CONTENTS:EGYPT: Police turn a blind eye to sexual harassment, say
activists
IRAQ: Aid hard to come by for increasing numbers of displaced
IRAQ: Hear Our Voices – Saddam faces death, but victims' suffering continues
IRAQ: Country's healthcare system rapidly
deteriorating
IRAQ: Sectarian violence forces mixed couples to divorce
ISRAEL: Haifa residents bounce back
ISRAEL: Unexploded Hezbollah rockets pose risk
MIDDLE EAST: Weekly update of human rights
violations in the region (3 Nov – 9 Nov 2006)
occ. Palestinian terr.: Hard times for widows of violence
occ. Palestinian terr.: "We just need to live" say Beit Hanoun residents
occ. Palestinian
terr.: Visa regime splits Palestinian families
occ. Palestinian terr.: Abused women failed by system, HRW says
YEMEN: Hear Our Voices: "I hate my classmates calling me a servant"EGYPT: Police turn
a blind eye to sexual harassment laws , say activistsWomen's rights activists in Egypt have criticised the country's authorities for tacitly accepting the sexual harassment of women. An incident on
24 October when a mob of men openly molested women in Cairo and were not stopped or arrested has brought the issue to the fore.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56301 and
SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=EGYPT IRAQ: Aid hard to come by for increasing numbers of displacedThe Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration said on Sunday that sectarian
violence has displaced up to 460,000 people since February, making it increasingly difficult to provide aid to them.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56259 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and
SelectCountry=IRAQ IRAQ: Hear Our Voices – Saddam faces death, but victims' suffering continues
Following the sentencing to death by hanging of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for crimes
against humanity, victims of his former government's brutality say their suffering continues.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56257 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ IRAQ: Country's healthcare system rapidly deterioratingIraq's healthcare system is continuing to deteriorate as not enough qualified staff or equipment is available, according to the Iraqi Medical
Association (IMA).http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56270 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ IRAQ: Sectarian violence forces mixed couples to divorceWhen Hiba Sami,
38, freely married her husband 18 years ago, she never thought she would one day be forced to divorce him against her own will.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56283 and
SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQISRAEL: Haifa residents bounce backWith the trauma of war still fresh in their minds, the Jewish and Arab residents of one of Israel's most mixed
cities are doing their best to rebuild their lives.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56272 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=ISRAEL ISRAEL: Unexploded Hezbollah rockets
pose riskIsraeli bomb disposal units are combing the north of the country for unexploded Hezbollah rockets left over from the recent conflict in an operation that will continue for months, Israeli
police say.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56255 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=ISRAELMIDDLE EAST: Weekly update of human rights violations in the region (3 Nov –
9 Nov 2006)In Egypt, Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the sentencing on 31 October of former President Anwar al-Sadat's nephew, Talaat al-Sadat, after being convicted by a military court of
'insulting the military and the Republican Guard'. http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56296 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=MIDDLE_EAST occ. Palestinian terr.: Hard times
for widows of violencePalestinian mother-of-11 Aneesa Afana was married to a fighter from the militant Islamic Jihad group until two years ago – when an Israeli missile blew him to bits.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56300 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=OPT occ. Palestinian terr.: "We just need to live" say Beit Hanoun residentsPalestinians in the
northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun have described finding bodies dismembered by what they said was Israeli artillery fire early this morning, and added that many residents were fleeing the town
for fear of further violence.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56284 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=OPT occ. Palestinian terr.: Visa regime splits Palestinian familiesA thousand West Bank Palestinians holding foreign passports have been expelled from their homes and thousands more face a similar fate after Israel tightened its visa regime, according to Palestinian
campaigners.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56271 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=OPT occ. Palestinian terr.: Abused women failed by system, HRW saysThe Palestinian
authorities have failed to deal with violence against women, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report out today.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56275 and SelectRegion=Middle_East
and SelectCountry=OPTYEMEN: Hear Our Voices: "I hate my classmates calling me a servant"Akhdam [servants in Arabic] are, as the rest of Yemen's population, Arabic-speaking Muslims but because
they do not belong to any of the three main Arab tribes that make up traditional Yemeni society, they are the lowest social caste in the country.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56254 and
SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=YEMEN
