International Organisations

Referendums are in the news, greeted by equal measures of loathing, hysteria and support whenever they are announced. This fact notwithstanding, it looks as if the western media has...

The top UN human rights official today called for tens of thousands of detainees to be released from Syria's prisons and for torturers to be brought to court as...

The European Court of Justice has today been criticised for defying the body autonomy of women by allowing employers to ban the headscarf on the grounds that employers are...

The oil minister of Kuwait has said that his country supports the extension of an OPEC agreement to cut crude oil production beyond June. "Kuwait supports the extension of...

Two Israeli Ministers are working to establish a new advocacy foundation to promote the alleged Jewish links to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Ynet News reported on Monday. The plan by Likud...

Turkey's foreign ministry today slammed the European Union for telling Ankara to refrain from excessive statements, saying it was very grave for the bloc to stand by the Netherlands...

The early 21st century has been marked by the rise of new players who are increasingly demonstrating their independent capacity to affect politics around the globe. Turkey has become...

Israel today deported prominent British activist Hugh Lanning after blocking him from entering its territory because of his involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The decision to...

In 2016 at least 652 Syrian children were killed, an increase of 20 per cent on the previous year, according to a report published today by Unicef. Some 850...

Multilateral institutions can either be tiresome talking shops or dynamic vehicles of change. The United Nations is a prime example. Although its purpose is undeniably laudable, its record of...

Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders hailed on Thursday efforts exerted by Syrians who lost their lives to collect and smuggle documents about war crimes in Syria, noting...

The Humanitarian and Development Forum for Palestine (HDFP) held in Doha, Qatar recently brought a number of organisations to discuss the emerging sociopolitical and economic realities in the region...

Two recent reports in the Times of Israel can be read as confirmation that US President Donald Trump's policy towards Palestine may be perceived as more belligerent than that...

UN Secretary-General's spokesperson has stressed protection of freedom of religion after a preliminary move by Israeli MPs to limit the Muslim call to prayer – athan – through loudspeakers. "Of...

Human Right Watch (HRW) has condemned Germany's deportation of a 24-year-old Tunisian man to Tunisia where he could face torture at the hands of authorities accused of "dirty work"...

A legal amendment in the Greek parliament that will remove safeguards for vulnerable people, including refugees and asylum seekers is being resisted by 13 major NGO's. Oxfam, Save the...

They will receive their awards at an event in Paris on 21 March.

A new peace plan to be launched by the UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismael Ould Cheikh, would allow for Yemen President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to remain in...

The Swiss parliament passed a bill on Wednesday to prevent the state from "financing any organisation which supports racism, anti-Semitism, or the BDS". Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported yesterday...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has successfully test-fired a naval missile, the semi-official news agency Tasnim said yesterday, a move likely to heighten concern in Washington, whose warships...

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and a young Yazidi woman who was enslaved and raped by Daesh fighters pushed Iraq on Thursday to allow a United Nations investigation...

As a new crisis rears its head between Ankara and Europe, the usual inflammatory vocabulary is exchanged between the two sides, adding further to the doubts of whether Turkey...

Early in the morning, small groups of armed pick-up trucks raced across the desert towards some of Libya's biggest oil export terminals. A previous attempt by the Benghazi Defence...

GCC member states have laid realistic foundations to deal with Iran, Russia Today quoted UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Bin Mohammed Gargash, saying on Tuesday. Speaking...

Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani yesterday received Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Doha. The two officials discussed bilateral and regional developments, Qatar's official news agency...

Intensive bombardment and air raids by the Iraqi authorities and their foreign backers has led to mass civilian fatalities, the extensive destruction of infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) have called for the release of at least 26 Egyptian workers who have been arrested and charged in connection with peaceful strikes and protests. Read:...

European Union leaders will today discuss their agreed plan to cut immigration from Libyan shores to Italy but they increasingly fear that calmer spring weather will bring a new...

Turkish scientist Bilge Demirkoz has been identified as one of the 15 women recipients of the International Rising Talent grants awarded annually as part of the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women...

The United States supports the UN-led Syria peace talks, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Wednesday, saying Syria could no longer be a "safe haven for terrorists" and that...

In an exclusive interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, American philosopher Cornel West criticised an Israeli law banning supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) saying "it's...

The UN envoy for the Western Sahara has offered his resignation after leading efforts to settle the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement for the last...