http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/111 2010-03-12T10:31:13-08:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/12/48272010-03-12T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country's high population growth.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/12/48262010-03-12T00:00:00-08:00

<p>'The best laid-schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley' (Scottish for 'going wrong'). </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/48182010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse. Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working together. And… it would have been nice to say they succeeded where the men failed.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/09/48022010-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/08/47872010-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/08/47742010-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

<p>For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to travel outside Gaza.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/08/47672010-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Was it Yasser Arafat's biggest political error? A decade ago, the deadline for the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel as envisaged in the 1993 Oslo peace accords thrust itself into the fruitless Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/05/47582010-03-05T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Thursday's vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as 'genocide' is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the Middle East and central and southwest Asia.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/05/47462010-03-05T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighbourhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/03/03/47292010-03-03T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, with its ubiquitous closures, checkpoints, military raids and arrests, has decimated the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and Gaza. </p>