International Organisations

Israel's government is "on a rampage" against human rights, the new head of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, and urged the United States and other allies to do...

At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinian human rights organisations, Al Haq and Addameer drew attention to the systematic torture of Palestinians prisoners in...

Lebanon has no alternative for economic recovery but to make progress on a deal with the International Monetary Fund, a senior US official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. US...

The United Nations' top Court has rejected Tehran's legal bid to free up some $2 billion in Iranian Central Bank assets frozen by US authorities, AP reports. According to...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has told the Human Rights Council that Israeli settlement expansion is linked to settler attacks against Palestinians over the past decade. Volker...

The Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy has found that changes introduced by the current government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "validate the claim that Israel practices apartheid."...

FIFA has stripped Indonesia of the right to host the Under-20 World Cup tournament due to Jakarta's refusal to host the Israel national team. Football's world governing body announced...

The situation in Israel is bleak. Benjamin Netanyahu ousted his defence minister who warned of an armed forces mutiny in the making. Demonstrations and strikes happen daily, with banks,...

Israel has burnt every olive branch offered by the Palestinians, starting with the late Yasser Arafat's famous 1974 speech at the UN when he told the occupation state, "I...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court once proposed to issue an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, noting that there was a "strong case" against him....

The European Commission's Transport Unit chief, Henrik Hololei, has been transferred to another post, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The transfer comes after a row over several Qatar-paid trips Hololei...

Sudan will need to import 3.5 million tonnes of wheat this year because of a 30 per cent drop in the projected local harvest after farmers switched to planting...

The Sultanate of Oman and Trinidad and Tobago have taken a significant step towards strengthening their relations by signing a joint statement on the establishment of diplomatic relations, reported...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning about the increasing number of Israeli attacks against medical staff in hospitals and other medical institutions in the occupied West...

The UN Water Conference 2023 concluded its three-day event with the participation of about 10,000 people from various sectors

A Bahraini delegation will visit the Iranian capital, Tehran, as part of efforts to restore bilateral relations, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported yesterday. The agency did not provide further details about...

UN member states are debating the creation of a new body to uncover what has happened to tens of thousands of missing Syrians. The Syrian conflict has been marked...

EU funding is facilitating the commission of abuses against migrants in Libya who are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery. The warning came out of a probe...

We are witnessing another decline in Iraq. The Economist Intelligence Unit's annual Democracy Index indicates another low point, with Iraq falling eight places to rank 124 out of 167...

The World Bank announced a $207 million grant to address food security and malnutrition in war-torn Yemen, Anadolu News Agency reports. The grant, offered by the World Bank's International...

A 27-year-old worker at a Madrid hotel hosting the Morocco team was arrested for an alleged hate crime after posting derogatory comments on Islam and racist slurs against the...

Israeli authorities demolished 953 Palestinian structures in the Occupied West Bank last year, according to the European Union on Tuesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. "In 2022, a total of...

The Israeli occupation authorities today posted a demolition order for a mosque in the south Hebron Hills area, Wafa has reported. According to Rateb Jabour of the Wall and...

Last month, Israel's National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to obtain firearms, citing a rise in applications since 2022...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian yesterday praised the role played by Doha in the negotiations for a nuclear agreement and the prisoner exchange file with the US. Speaking...

The European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, said on Monday that his visit to Tunisia was a chance to "reaffirm our attachment to the values of democracy, inclusion...

Amnesty International has accused the West of double standards in its dealing with human rights abuses. The rights group makes the allegation in its Annual Report for 2022 released...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani yesterday reiterated the need to help Tunisia overcome the difficulties it faces and address its financial situation by securing a loan from the International...

Given the slow and selective investigations of alleged war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court's speedy warrant to put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for...

Twenty years have passed since the US-led invasion of Iraq, with its harsh consequences, severe developmental setbacks and its alienation from its Arab neighbours which conspired against it, as...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry yesterday summoned the French Ambassador to Ankara, Herve Magro, to protest against the French Senate hosting members of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG)....

In its final report released on Monday, the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya expressed "deep concern" over the country's deteriorating human rights situation and that there is reason...