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The Centre for Lebanese Studies has called on donor governments to address the unprecedented education crisis in Lebanon at a funding conference in Brussels today. This includes putting pressure...

Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments should end all arbitrary restrictions on religious gatherings, prayers and practices during the final days of Ramadan and the upcoming Eid celebrations, Human Rights...

The resignation of US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield after less than six months in the role and at a time of persistent political turmoil...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release migrants and asylum seekers who are arbitrarily detained and at heightened risk due to military activity in...

An Egyptian government report yesterday recommended an increase in fuel prices by 75 piasters ($0.04) per litre, citing the significant increase in global oil prices after the start of...

India is in final talks to start exporting wheat to Egypt, reports the Economic Times, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has disrupted the wheat supply from the leading exporters....

An armed group linked to the commander of the so-called Libyan Arab Armed Forces, General Khalifa Haftar, has arbitrarily arrested at least 50 residents of the eastern city of...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday slammed recent comments by human right organisations, citing the government's inability to provide food, health care, or job opportunities for its "increasing population."...

Trade with settlements in Occupied Territories contributes to human rights abuses and must be banned, as part of a European Citizen's Initiative (ECI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated yesterday....

Human Rights Watch has called on European leaders to address the human rights crisis under Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's rule ahead of a summit between the European Union...

Michael Benyair, a former Israeli Attorney General and a former acting judge in the Israeli Supreme Court, has called on the international community to take meaningful steps to end Israel's...

The Tunisian authorities are conducting large-scale imprisonment of its citizens in secret detentions using the state of emergency laws, revealed Human Rights Watch (HRW) today. Although the use of...

Fourteen Israeli NGOs and human rights groups has signed a statement in support of Amnesty International, condemning the "vicious" attack on the rights group sparked by the recent publication of a...

Flawed investigations and procedural violations in four politically sensitive murders highlight how donor funding and training for Lebanon's security forces and judiciary have failed to secure the rule of...

Human Rights Watch has called on the Egyptian authorities to reveal the whereabouts of 29-year-old Hossam Menoufy Sallam who was forcibly disappeared after his plane made an emergency landing...

A Regional Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) who investigated Israel's conflict with Hamas in Gaza and the Beirut port explosion had her phones hacked with spyware made by...

Human Rights Watch yesterday slammed a recent bid by the European Union and Egypt to lead the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum. The international organisation warned that the joint bid would...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, despite ending the state of emergency by Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in October 2021, the Egyptian government attached emergency decree provisions to other...

The UAE intensified its mistreatment of human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor following the publication of his prison letter by regional media in July 2021, revealing details of the unfair trial and...

The Ethiopian government has been detaining and forcibly disappearing thousands of Tigrayans who were repatriated back to the country from Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights...

Trials of Tunisian citizens before civil and military courts for "insulting the president" have increased, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said referring to repressive pre-revolution laws used by the public...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s report about "Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution" topped the list of its most-read reports issued in 2021. According to the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned Egypt's initiation of at least five Emergency State Security Court trials against high-profile human rights defenders, activists and political opponents on alleged speech...

A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) into abusive and discriminatory policing found that Israeli officials co-ordinated with far-right Jewish ultra-nationalists during May's civil unrest in the mixed Jewish and Palestinian...

Western countries have condemned the alleged killings of former Afghan soldiers and police, as rights groups demand a probe, the Guardian reported. The US led the chorus of condemnation,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on Lebanon to extend the school registration deadline, ending on 4 December, for Syrian refugee children. According to HRW, Lebanon should: "End...

Three human rights watchdogs have said that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) September report includes "false and misleading claims." Amnesty International, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the UAE of clamping down on activism and freedom of expression under the guise of counterterrorism. The report today comes after the Emirati...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday criticised the choice of Egypt as host of the next global climate summit in November 2022, warning that the Egyptian government would use the...

Israel's highest court is accused of "rubber-stamping discriminatory practices that contribute to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution," following a recent decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to...

This week the French train manufacturer Alstom announced that it had secured a $1 billion deal to upgrade Cairo's oldest metro line. It follows a contract the same company...

USAID and the International Cooperation Ministry has said that the US is giving Egypt seven grants worth $125 million to support education, health and other development projects. The news...