International Organisations

Amnesty International has accused Sudanese government forces of killing civilians, including children, in suspected chemical weapons attacks in Darfur. According to the 100-page report, around 30 attacks were carried...

Senior UN officials have called for an independent body to document human rights abuses in Libya and efforts by the authority to bring perpetrators to account. Kate Gilmore, speaking...

A video showing Syria's ambassador to the United Nations laughing when asked if his government had bombed two of Aleppo's biggest hospitals has sparked outrage. Diplomatic editor for Al...

The photo opportunity and lavish praise for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in New York this week, alongside leaders of the Coptic Church, highlight an awkward truth prevalent across...

Dunkin' Donuts Egypt released a picture of a doughnut covered in chocolate and one covered in sugar frosting with the following caption: "Blackness equals a half beauty. Whiteness equals...

A Yemeni commission reporting on human rights abuses in the country's civil war lacks impartiality and is not up to the job, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Food aid has reached families in the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat for the first time since its capture by Daesh militants more than two years ago, the World...

Iraq's International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout has been put at risk following last week's dismissal of its Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari. With Zebari's dismissal the Baghdad government has lost...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that those using "ever more destructive weapons" in Syria are committing war crimes and that the situation in the Syrian city of...

Leading international humanitarian organisations called for the opening of secure corridors in Aleppo yesterday in order to evacuate the many wounded civilians in the city's opposition-held eastern districts that...

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) strongly condemned on Tuesday Arab participation in a Zionist conference held in New York about the threat posed by Iran, Arab48.com has...

Amnesty International has accused Israeli forces of displaying "an appalling disregard for human life by using reckless and unlawful lethal force against Palestinians", in a new statement timed to...

Some 269 hospitals and health centres have been bombed in Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, the UN announced yesterday. UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Puras stressed...

Israeli soldiers are being investigated by military police following complaints of two attacks against Palestinian paramedics. According to the report in Haaretz: "In both cases the Palestinians claim that...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the European Union needs to establish migrant deals with Egypt and Tunisia, along the lines of the agreement it already has...

Ban Ki-moon's second term as UN secretary-general is ending this December, he was the most ideal man for the job as far as the United States and its allies...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused FIFA, the worldwide football association, of "holding games on stolen land", in a new report on Israeli football clubs based in illegal West...

Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin blamed the breakdown of the ceasefire on groups fighting against the Syrian regime, including those supported by the US

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release journalist Hesham Gaafar from prison for "humanitarian reasons", Quds Press reported on Sunday. Gaafar...

Palestinian and pro-Palestine activists and journalists around the globe started an anti-Facebook Twitter campaign on Sunday morning, in protest against the social media giant's cooperation with Israel against Palestinians....

Save the Children said in a statement on Sunday that its humanitarian partners in Aleppo have revealed that approximately half of the victims who are being pulled from the...

Decrying recent attacks on civilians in Aleppo, Syria that have taken over 350 civilian lives as an "unacceptable breach of international humanitarian law," the EU has called for an...

UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said that the UAE has unwavering faith in the role of the United Nations and its organs, especially the UN...

Hamas, the Palestinian governors of the Gaza Strip, hailed the advice of the advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, Eleanor Sharpston, which stated that Hamas should be removed...

The "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators said on Friday it was strongly opposed to Israel's ongoing settlement activity, warning that it risked ending the chance of a two-state...

The UK and UAE are to form a new taskforce to help prevent extremism. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on...

A senior US diplomatic official said that there would be "no tolerance" for sectarian torture and other abuses that may be perpetrated by Iraqi forces and allied Shia militias...

 The U.N. Security Council has given an international inquiry five more weeks to complete its report on who is to blame for toxic gas attacks in Syria as UN...

The UN on Thursday warned that 40 trucks of food languishing at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting for permission from the Syrian regime, will be expiring next Monday. "Forty trucks are sitting...

Kuwait will host an international conference to highlight Israeli violations and abuses against Palestinian children, the country's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said yesterday. Speaking at the...

A boat carrying 600 people from Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan capsized off the Egyptian coast yesterday killing 43 people. Four hundred people are still missing and 154 people...

Israel, which has had fraught relations with the EU in recent years, recalled Europeans' treatment of Jews in the Holocaust and denounced the bloc's "staggering hypocrisy"