MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST: Weekly round-up Number 107 for 29
December - 4 January 2007
Source: IRIN
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MIDDLE EAST, 8 January (IRIN) - IRAQ: Abbas Dawood, "I lost 11 members of my family in less than one year"IRAQ: Minorities living tormented days under sectarian violenceSYRIA: Labour unions urge government to open schools for domestic workersIRAQ: Abbas Dawood, "I lost 11 members of my family in
less than one year""I'm 29-years-old. I've been handicapped since 18 January, 2006, when I lost my leg in an explosion while I was working as a waiter in a Baghdad restaurant.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56910 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQIRAQ: Minorities living tormented days under sectarian violenceLike other minority members in
Iraq, Mardon Matrood, a 44-year-old Assyrian shopkeeper in Baghdad, has had enough of the country's sectarian violence.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56911 and SelectRegion=Middle_East
and SelectCountry=IRAQSYRIA: Labour unions urge government to open schools for domestic workersA scarcity of work for women in Syria has forced local labour unions to urge the government to open
schools to train Syrian women to become domestic workers.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56896 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=SYRIA
