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Over 50 million affected in Muslim world in 2011

DUBAI, 2 April 2012 (IRIN) - The Muslim world is increasingly in the “eye of the cyclone”, with disasters and crises affecting tens of millions of people in Muslim countries last year, a senior official with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) told a humanitarian conference in Dubai. full report

MIDDLE EAST: Call for educational reform to create "knowledge society"

 DUBAI, 15 March 2012 (IRIN) - If the Arab Spring is to have any lasting impact, education must top the priority list of post-revolutionary reforms in the Arab world, experts said yesterday at the launch of the 2010-2011 Arab Knowledge Report in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). full report

LEBANON: Tussle over gender violence law

 BEIRUT, 8 March 2012 (IRIN) - Proposed amendments to a draft law on gender violence in Lebanon have sparked demands from civil society organizations that parliament uphold an original draft criminalizing “honor crimes”, marital rape and other abuses. full report

LEBANON: Boost for relatives of civil war missing

 BEIRUT, 7 March 2012 (IRIN) - A new legal mechanism has been proposed to deal with the issue of thousands of people who went missing during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war, including locating mass graves, and identifying and returning remains to families, according to local activists. full report

Analysis: 2012 – “The Year of Crisis” in the Middle East

 DUBAI, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - If you thought 2011 was a historic year for the Middle East, 2012 is likely to be even more unpredictable. full report

MIDDLE EAST: The year that was

 DUBAI, 4 January 2012 (IRIN) - When hundreds of thousands of people across the Arab world poured into the streets in 2011 to demand freedom from dictatorship, they set in motion a series of events which not only created humanitarian needs in countries that were otherwise relatively stable, but also exacerbated existing humanitarian and developmental challenges. full report

LEBANON-SYRIA: Residents ready to take up arms against Syrian incursions*

 TRIPOLI, 17 November 2011 (IRIN) - In the office of the former general turned self-styled humanitarian, concerned locals and Syrian refugees talk of taking up arms to defend a country they believe the national army will not. full report

Briefing: Six months into the Syrian uprising

 DUBAI, 28 September 2011 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in Syria have been killed, injured, displaced or detained in a series of protests against the Syrian government since mid-March which have been ruthlessly quelled by the government. How is this uprising different and where are we now? full report

LEBANON: Meeting bolsters cluster munitions convention

 BEIRUT, 22 September 2011 (IRIN) - Over 100 children have been killed or maimed by cluster munitions in Lebanon since 2006, a senior army officer told IRIN at a recent international meeting on cluster bombs in Beirut. full report

LEBANON: A small step towards literacy

 WADI AL-JAMOUS, 23 August 2011 (IRIN) - Seven years ago, Khadija Assaad began teaching the Koran to girls in the remote Lebanese village of Wadi al-Jamous in Akkar District, Northern Governorate, but had no idea how much impact the initiative would eventually have on her poor community. full report

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