| GLOBAL: Children’s rights not yet a reality |
 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to education, healthcare and protection in conflicts and natural disasters, children are often the first to be deprived of their rights.
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IRAQ: Minority communities in Nineveh appeal for protection |  BAGHDAD, 15 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Iraq’s minority communities in the northern province of Nineveh have appealed to local and national authorities for protection amid warnings of an increase in attacks against them in the run-up to January’s national elections.
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In Brief: Egypt’s Copts facing persecution - report |  CAIRO, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - A new report on religious freedom in Egypt says Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the 80 million population (CIA factbook), face major rights violations and are being increasingly persecuted.
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ISRAEL: Getting tough on "infiltrators" |  JERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.
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ISRAEL: New report highlights exploitation of migrant workers |  TEL AVIV, 30 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Migrant workers in Israel’s agriculture sector are among the most exploited, according to a 28 October report by Kav LaOved, an Israeli NGO campaigning for the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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In Brief: Travel restrictions hit Gaza students |  TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some 838 students formally offered places and/or enrolled at foreign universities are unable to leave Gaza, according to the Palestinian interior ministry and Gisha, an NGO campaigning for freedom of movement.
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ISRAEL: 1,200 children face deportation |  TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai has said he will not grant legal status to some 1,200 children of migrant workers, triggering an anti-deportation campaign led by several NGOs.
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Analysis: Talk radio in hot water over Uganda riots |  NAIROBI/KAMPALA, 2 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Criminal charges and the closure of several radio stations over alleged incitement to violence in Kampala have sparked a debate about the limits of free speech in Uganda.
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LEBANON: Plight of the trafficked domestic worker |  BEIRUT, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Abbey was a nurse at a French hospital in Madagascar when a recruitment agency suggested to her boss that she travel to Lebanon for three years to work and learn Arabic so she could better care for the Arab sailors whose ships docked at the Indian Ocean island.
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EGYPT-ISRAEL: How many migrants are dying at the border? |  TEL AVIV, 30 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Rights groups such as Amnesty International have called on the Egyptian authorities to "urgently rein in their border security forces" after seven African asylum-seekers were killed in September trying to cross into Israel on foot, but some Israeli NGOs and soldiers say the death toll at the border is far higher.
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