Gender research in the Arab region drew conference participants from across the Middle East and North Africa this week. While challenges and restrictions are abundant at women's studies centers, degrees and programs are growing.

Hebron and southern West Bank

Some thoughts about the human rights defenders and the human rights educators

Facebook activism in Egypt was first noticed when thousands of Egypt-ians stayed in their homes refusing to go to work as a response to the rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, chronic inflation and rampant
u n e m p l o y m e n t .

Sixty years after the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ten years after the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, many states are still violating these fundamental texts.

Here it's just numbers ... but every number represents a HUMAN BEING!

GAZA STRIP : 986,034 refugees

Beach camp, 76,109
Bureij, 30,059
Deir al-Balah camp, 20,188
Jabalia, 103,646
Khan Yunis, 60,662
Maghazi, 22,536
Nuseirat, 64,233
Rafah camp, 90,638

eporters Without Borders today accused public officials around the world of “impotence, cowardice and duplicity” in defending freedom of expression.