David Cameron’s hard-line refusal to take more refugees from the Middle East is dismaying, especially after the distressing image of a lifeless Syrian child, refused asylum by Canada and...

While eight more countries have ratified an international treaty banning cluster bombs, the deadly explosives continue to be used in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, a new UN...

At least 1,325 people were killed in August in ongoing violence across war-torn Iraq, according to a monthly report issued Tuesday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)....

The UN has received $1.77 billion out of the $2.65bn pledged for the Syrians during the donor conference held in Kuwait earlier this year. The details were revealed by...

The Gaza Strip “could be uninhabitable by 2020,” news agencies reported the UN warning yesterday. In a report published for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...

Fifty thousand refugees have arrived recently in Europe and many more are on the way. They include Palestinians reliving their original catastrophe — the Nakba of 1948 — as...

The European Union is employing the same dissociation tactics utilised by governments and media to speak about the ramifications of violence while negating the role of foreign intervention. The...

The European Union is employing the same dissociation tactics utilised by governments and media to speak about the ramifications of violence while negating the role of foreign intervention. The...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed deep regret over the Egyptian court’s decision to uphold the sentencing of three Al-Jazeera journalists. In a statement issued on Sunday...

No issue has been so much at the heart of the Palestine cause, or so resistant to resolution, as the right of return. Palestinians world wide see it as...

The Gaza Strip’s new school year began on Monday at schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) after a one-week delay due to...

Dozens of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared after being secretly detained by security forces, an Egyptian NGO has said. In a Sunday statement, the Egyptian Coordination of Rights and Freedoms (ECRF)...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement called on Thursday for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to resign after he blamed Hamas for breaking the first temporary truce during Israel’s 51-day offensive...

When Jordan broadened its anti-terror law last year, critics warned that it could be used to silence opposition. The law expanded the definition of “terrorism” to include any act...

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Bashar Al-Jaafari yesterday launched a sharp attack on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his monthly report to the UN Security Council accusing...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that those who use toxic chemicals in the Syrian civil war will face consequences. In a statement issued by his spokesman, Ban expressed...

Instead of focusing upon international organisations as a platform through which the Palestinian struggle can be articulated and disseminated, the Palestinian Authority has once again prioritised symbolism over rights....

UNRWA Spokesman Adnan Abu-Hasna said on Wednesday that the international organisation would build 60 new schools in the Palestinian territories, including 40 in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu agency reported....

The head of Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) delegation to the UN-brokered dialogue talks has resigned. Saleh Makhzoum’s resignation came just a day before the scheduled start of a...

Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Al-Dairi called on the international community to help end a UN arms embargo imposed on Libya in order to aid it in its battle against...

Under present conditions, a new war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is more likely than a medium-term ceasefire between them or successful reconciliation efforts between Fatah and Hamas,...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) needs €9.2 million ($10.5 million) a year to inspect Iran’s nuclear programme, the agency’s Director General Yukiya Amano said. Amano was reported as...

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood official Zuhair Salem criticised the United Nations Security Council’s presidential statement on Syria saying the statement reflects “international complicity” with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. In...

Rebel forces loyal to Libyan General Khalifa Haftar on Sunday took control of the town of Sorman, 80 kilometres from the capital Tripoli, and took up positions in the...

Yasser Arafat: Icon of the Palestinian struggle

The Palestinian Bar Association (PBA) has sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon protesting about the condition of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan. Allan, a Palestinian...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has said is greatly relieved with the decision of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) to...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called on Egypt to keep the Rafah Crossing opened to facilitate the movement of Palestinians and goods in to and out of the Gaza...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced that the school year 2015/2016 will start according to plan in Palestine on 24 August, in Jordan...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to appoint Science, Technology and Space Minister Danny Danon as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Danon is expected to arrive in New...

Democracy activist Dr Nasser bin Ghaith was arrested by the UAE authoirities in Abu Dhabi at 2pm on 18th August. Dr bin Ghaith, who works as an economist and...

Arab League Assistant Secretary-General for Palestinian affairs Mohamed Sobeih on Tuesday called for activating an Arab boycott of Israeli products. Speaking at a meeting at the Cairo-based Arab League,...