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.

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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.

The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists continues to follow up, with extreme worry, news coming from occupied Gaza, which is evidence of the extent of deterioration and worsening of human conditions due to the imposed Israeli siege. In addition to the suspicious international silence and complete oversight to what is happening in Gaza in lieu of shameful crimes.

On 16 February 2006 the High State Security Court (Emergency) handed down a decision acquitting Sarando farmers who were charged with bully acts and possessing fire weapons in the case no. 776/2005.