MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST: Weekly round-up Number 97 for 20
October- 26 October 2006
Source: IRIN
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MIDDLE EAST, 31 October (IRIN) - CONTENTS:IRAQ-SYRIA-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Sex traffickers target women in war-torn Iraq
IRAQ: Gunmen
refuse to disarm
IRAQ: Hear Our Voices - "I will only leave this house in a coffin"
IRAQ: Curfew in Amarah cripples daily life
IRAQ-SYRIA: Three million uprooted Iraqis face "bleak future", UNHCR saysMIDDLE EAST: Weekly wrap of human rights violations in the region
YEMEN: Hear Our Voices - "I live in a situation worse than before"IRAQ-SYRIA-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Sex traffickers target women in
war-torn Iraq
Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in Baghdad sold her off as a domestic worker in one of the prosperous Gulf nations. Instead, she was forced into the sex trade.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56065 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ-SYRIA-UNITED_ARAB_EMIRATES IRAQ: Gunmen refuse to disarm
Abu Zaineb, 56, is one of the most
well known small arms dealers in Baghdad. He sells guns under the table in his upmarket shop in Mansour, one of the capital's most prestigious districts.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56071 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ IRAQ: Hear Our Voices - "I will only leave this house in a coffin"
Palestinians living in Iraq
have increasingly come under threat since the US-led occupation of the country began in 2003, according to a recent report by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56054 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQIRAQ: Curfew in Amarah cripples daily life
Residents of Amarah, a half-million strong city in
south-eastern Iraq, say they are being severely restricted by an indefinite daily 20-hour curfew. Imposed by the Iraqi government on Monday after clashes between militia fighters and the Iraqi army
intensified, the curfew is crippling daily life.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56057 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ IRAQ-SYRIA: Three million uprooted Iraqis face
"bleak future", UNHCR says
More than three million Iraqis who have been forced to flee their homes to other areas of Iraq and to neighbouring countries are facing what the United Nations' refugee
agency (UNHCR) describes as a "very bleak future" after the agency's budget for offices across the region was halved for the coming year.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56036 and
SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ-SYRIA MIDDLE EAST: Weekly wrap of human rights violations in the region
In Iraq, the Ministry of Interior fired 3,000 policemen in mid-October for
human rights abuses as well as incompetence in preventing terrorism. Reports emerged that some also had regular contact with insurgents.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56058 and
SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=MIDDLE_EAST YEMEN: Hear Our Voices - "I live in a situation worse than before"
The flow of desperate people crossing the Gulf of Aden by boat from Somalia
to Yemen is continuing despite a recent crackdown against human smuggling in some parts of north-eastern Somalia's Puntland region, according to a recent report by the United Nations refugee agency
(UNHCR).
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56072 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=YEMEN
