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ICRC steps up humanitarian response
Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today asked donors for an additional 35 million Swiss francs to allow it to substantially expand its humanitarian work in Iraq.
The additional funds requested will bring the organization’s total budget for Iraq in 2007 to just […]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Children, Human Rights, Iraq, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: Child Poverty, Children, Follow Up, Poverty, Women and Children. Comments: None

Israel ‘routinely tortures prisoners’
By Steve Weizman in Jerusalem
Published: 07 May 2007

Israel’s Shin Bet security service tortures Palestinian prisoners during interrogations in defiance of a 1999 court ruling outlawing such practices, two of the country’s human rights groups said yesterday.

Interrogators beat suspects, shackle them in painful, contorted positions and deprive them of sleep for […]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Human Rights, Middle East. Tags: Israel. Comments: None

I am posting below a report from IRIN earlier this year you should also see this report from markfromireland Getting Tougher on The Streets I get so tired and angry when Iraki exiles who left during the Saddam years and now live in safety and comfort in Europe and America deny this goes on. […]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Children, Features, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security, Series, Society And Economy, Team Members, Video Reports, Women and Children. Tags: Baghdad, Briefings, Child Poverty, Child Prostitution, Children, Follow Up, IRIN, Poverty, Refugees, Syria, Women and Children. Comments: 1

DAMASCUS , 7 May 2007 (IRIN) - The European Union (EU) is preparing to boost its assistance to Iraqi refugees in Syria by a further €6 million, building on the €10.2 million it gave regional partners in March.

Photo: J.Wreford/UNHCR

Young Iraqis play soccer in a district of Damascus. At least 500,000 Iraqis are currently living […]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Features, Health, Human Rights, Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: Briefings, Child Poverty, Follow Up, IRIN, Poverty, Refugees, Syria, Women and Children. Comments: None

Photo: DVIC

US troops on patrol in Sadr City, Baghdad

BAGHDAD, 7 May 2007 (IRIN) - Dozens of families started to flee Sadr City, the main Shi’a district of Baghdad, on Sunday following raids by US-led forces against suspected militants.
“The raids were unexpected and, as Sadr City is a violent neighbourhood, some families are fleeing the […]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 under Health, Iraq, Politics and Security, Society And Economy, Team Members, Women and Children. Tags: Badr Brigade, Baghdad, Child Poverty, Death Squads, Imam Ali Hospital, IRIN, Poverty, Refugees, Sadr City, Sadr City (Hospital), Women and Children. Comments: 1