International Organisations

Amnesty International yesterday called on Israel to halt its house demolitions policy as a collective punishment measure against Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a letter to Israeli Prime...

A Palestinian official said Israel’s bid to gain membership as an observer state in the African Union (AU) will “fail” because of the AU’s support for Palestine. “We appreciate...

NATO yesterday has called on Russia to immediately stop its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and “to focus its efforts on fighting the Islamic State terrorist group”....

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to urgently send international protection staff to the Palestinian territories before his government loses...

On Wednesday, 30 September, the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York after the General Assembly voted overwhelming in favour of...

The United Nations on Friday suspended its planned humanitarian operations in Syria because of an increase of military activities in concerned areas of the war-torn country. UN Special Envoy...

The Moroccan government decided to boycott Swedish companies yesterday following the government in Stockholm’s “determination” to support what is known as the “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”, established unilaterally by...

Britain has been accused of playing a key role in Saudi Arabia’s election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) through a secret vote-trading deal carried out between London...

Fabricated claims of UN bias against Israel continue to fuel Israeli media reports covering this year's UN General Assembly. As Mahmoud Abbas played the usual game of fluctuating threats...

The Malaysian prime minister today condemned Israel for what he called its "systematic dehumanisation" of Palestinians, saying the situation risked becoming a "catastrophe". Addressing the United Nations General Assembly,...

The Israeli government should expand settlement construction and accelerate its pace in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's speech at the UN General Assembly, Hebrew TV reported the Yesha...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that Palestine is under occupation and that the PA is no longer bound by the Oslo accords signed with Israel,...

Sixty per cent of Egyptian illegal immigrants to Italy are children and minors, the EU Ambassador to Egypt James Moran revealed yesterday. Moran said that 500,000 migrants have arrived...

The Palestinian flag is to be raised for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York later today in what is being described as a the “most...

Saudi Arabia has called for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem to be blacklisted by the United Nations, and condemned the Israeli government for aiding and...

A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Monday that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year’s war in the Gaza Strip and the freeze...

It is election season in Canada. On 19 October Canadians will cast their votes to select representatives for the federal Parliament in Ottawa. According to recent polling it’s going...

Jordan has rejected a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen which said that the coalition forces committed human rights violations and...

One of the leading advocates for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU on Friday welcomed a new campaign to exit the 28-country bloc. Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing UK...

At the entrance to the "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais on Monday morning, around 400 people had "over-spilled" the borders of their designated plot of "no man's land" and...

A week ago, David Cameron capitulated to humanitarian rather than political instinct. Twenty thousand places in Britain are to be offered to Syrian refugees over the next five years....

The European Commission criticized 19 EU member states, including France and Germany, for not respecting asylum rights. Al Jazeera correspondent said that there is a tendency at an emergency...

The World Bank announced yesterday that it has transferred $25 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund (PRDP-MDTF), a multi-donor budget...

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Frederica Mogherini, has announced Europe’s readiness to provide a €100 million package to support the new Libyan government....

A lot of speculation has gripped the media with regard to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's forthcoming speech at the UN General Assembly on 29 September. Reports in the...

McDonald’s is leading a group of companies to provide assistance to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) which seeks to secure food aid for millions of Syrian refugees. Instead...

The appointment of a key human rights role to Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN has been described as “scandalous” given the country’s “worst record in the world” on...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas pledged not to announce the dismantling of the PA or the cancellation of the Oslo Accords during his upcoming speech at the UN...

Egypt was the largest receiver of development aid in 2013, the UN reported yesterday, adding that the African state was paid $5.5 billion in that year. UN Secretary-General Ban...

“The continuation of the war in Syria will inflame new wars fuelled by the desire of some countries to maintain their influence,” a senior UN official has warned yesterday....

Mahmoud Abbas has promised to drop a “bombshell” during his speech scheduled for later this month at the UN; his bomb, however, detonated too soon in Tulkarem, only 30...

Apple's chief executive told employees Friday that the company would pledge a significant amount of money to the burgeoning refugee crisis currently occurring across Europe. Tim Cook said Apple...