International Organisations

Today marks the UN World Day against Human Trafficking. This modern-day slavery spins an estimated $32-billion industry worldwide, exploiting 20.9 million global trafficking victims, 1.2 million of whom are...

When the UNRWA Commissioner-General threatened the reduction of services and the postponement of the school year, he aimed to pressure donor countries to fulfil their obligations towards the aid...

Hackers today attacked the website of the Office of the Prime Minister, that of the Israel army and that of a number of ministries and government departments. In a...

The European Union has condemned the attack in Turkey's south-eastern province of Sirnak where four policemen were killed and another officer was injured on Monday. A remote-controlled roadside bomb...

The Israeli banking sector is deeply concerned following an EU consultative committee recommended a boycott of banks involved in settlement policies, local media reported yesterday. Israeli newspaper Maariv reported...

The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to establish a panel to determine who used chemical weapons in Syria, Anadolu reported on Friday. Speaking to the council,...

Members of the West Bank-based Ahli Al-Khalil football team entered the blockaded Gaza Strip late Tuesday – via Israel's Erez border crossing – for the first time in 15...

Turkey will not stand idly by in the face of terrorist threats to its national security, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday. According to sources in the Turkish presidency,...

It will take six to nine months to lift the sanctions on Iran once the country meets the conditions in the agreement on nuclear energy made with world powers,...

Amnesty International said on Tuesday that its staff have received threats from extremist Jewish settlers, Israel Radio has reported. The threats include an attack on Amnesty's offices in Israel....

A spokesman for the United Nations said on Tuesday that the organisation's envoy to Yemen believes that there is growing acceptance among the warring parties for his plan to...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday appealed for urgent donations to meet a $100 million shortfall in funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA. In a...

Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said the EU supports Turkey's efforts in the fight against Daesh. According to a statement issued by the European...

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday that Israel "has begun a diplomatic campaign to thwart a resolution to subject its nuclear facilities to international supervision." The newspaper added that...

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has called on the United Nations Central Fund to intervene to support the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and cover...

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations announced on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address American Jews tomorrow in an attempt to thwart the...

The United States warned Egypt on Sunday that human rights abuses and restricting freedoms can hurt the country's fight against terrorism. "The success of our fight against terrorism depends...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is suffering a severe financial crisis that has apparently forced it to cut costs, worrying Palestinian refugees in the...

As many as 1,332 people were killed in violence across Iraq in July, according to a monthly report released on Saturday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)....

In the early hours of Friday morning, two Palestinian houses were set alight in the West Bank village of Duma in a suspected arson attack by Jewish extremists. Eighteen-month-old...

The EU has called for strict measures to be taken against the extremist Jewish settlers whose arson attack burnt a Palestinian baby to death and injured three of his...

In the wake of the Israeli government's announcement that it is going to build more than 800 new housing units in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, the EU...

The last thing one would think of is that the reduction of services provided by an agency established by the UN would constitute a violation of the Universal Declaration...

A U.S. Cabinet member unwittingly admitted Wednesday that he has not yet seen side agreements between Iran and the UN's nuclear watchdog, regarding Tehran's nuclear program. During a Senate...

United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said yesterday that "there is still no consensus on the way forward on the Communique or yet a formalised negotiation"...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned Israeli plans to build more than 800 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, the Anadolu Agency reported. In...

Jannat Mir was in the 9th grade when he left Afghanistan for Iran. Like many who journey across the border, he was probably looking for more opportunity in the...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the attacks on Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that the secretary-general...

There is overwhelming evidence of war crimes commissioned and committed by the Israeli military in Rafah last August, a new report by Amnesty International has concluded. In what the...

The United Nations has suspended health programmes that were benefiting millions of people in Iraq due to a lack of funding, it said yesterday. The organisation said in a...

The Iraqi war canon has been overtaken by American military accounts. US military titles have been published and promoted with regularity while war literature by Iraqi authors has consistently...

Director-General of the Department of Palestinian Affairs in the Jordanian government Mahmoud Al-Aqrabawi yesterday held an urgent meeting with service and consultative committees in the Palestinian refugee camps to...