Lebanese women still face discrimination - study Daily Star Lebanon | By Dalila Mahdawi | Daily Star staff | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Women in Lebanon have made considerable strides toward gender equality in education and the workplace but continue to face significant discrimination in many other facets of society, a study said this week. | A...
Morocco: Free Retired Colonel Held Unjustly Human Rights | (Washington, DC) - Morocco should immediately release an elderly retired major-colonel serving a 12-year prison term on dubious charges of divulging a "national defense secret," Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to King Mohammed VI. | A military court punished Kaddour Terhzaz, ...
Lebanese women still face discrimination - study Daily Star Lebanon | By Dalila Mahdawi | Daily Star staff | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Women in Lebanon have made considerable strides toward gender equality in education and the workplace but continue to face significant discrimination in many ot...
Remedy women's legal status Daily Star Lebanon | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | - Powered by | Editorial | We are ashamed that it often requires Monday’s International Women’s Day to direct our attention to the abysmal condition of women’s rights in Lebanon, but we would be even more...
Women's rights take baby steps forward in Mideast Breitbart | Saudi women visiting the Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market (STTIM)... | Women's rights have inched forward in the Middle East, but gender inequality remains the norm in the region and in some countries the situation has taken a turn for th...
Lebanese women wed to foreigners fight for rights Breitbart | Lebanese Samira Soueidan smokes a cigarette at her home in Beirut on March ... | Samira Soueidan thought she had won a major battle last year when a judge ruled she could pass on her Lebanese citizenship to her children, a first for women wed to fo...
British security chief denies collusion in torture The Star | LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britain's MI5 security service denied on Friday that his agency colluded in torture after a court ruling showed it knew that a detained British res...
US disappointed at UK Appeal Court torture ruling BBC News | The White House has expressed "deep disappointment" at an Appeal Court ruling to reveal information on the alleged torture of a UK resident. | Foreign Secretary David M...
Mass drugs trial in Morocco Middle East Online | CASABLANCA - Nearly 90 people, including many members of the security forces, were sentenced Friday in Morocco to jail terms for drug trafficking, a judicial official said. | The court in Casablanca, northern Morocco, handed down prison sentences o...
Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa Khaleej Times WASHINGTON ' Al-Qaida's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening to further destabilize the continent's already vulnerable Sahara region, according to U.S. defense and counterterrorism officials. ...
Battling divorce stigma takes to Egypt airwaves The Siasat Daily | Cairo, March 01: When her divorce finally came through after a painful four-year procedure, Mahasen Saber became the target of reproving looks and gossip in society. | But she fought back, and the young Egyptian mother decided to take to the high-t...
British security chief denies collusion in torture The Star | LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britain's MI5 security service denied on Friday that his agency colluded in torture after a court ruling showed it knew that a detained British resident had been abused by U.S. intelligence officers. A file photo of Jonathan Evans, the head of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency, as he speaks at the Society of Editors...
