International Organisations

France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today launched a $100 million fund to protect heritage sites threatened by extremism and conflict after the destruction last month of an...

The world's largest security company, G4S, announced today that it is selling most of its Israeli businesses after an effective campaign against the company waged by the Palestinian-led but...

About 2.8 million Syrians suffer permanent disabilities due to the ongoing conflict in their country, a new report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...

Turkey has been fighting several terrorist groups on different fronts in Syria and Iraq, such as the PKK, the PKK's Syrian offshoot the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) and Daesh....

To those familiar with Arab culture, it is no secret that the topic of disability remains a taboo. When speaking about disability in the Arab world, generally, the topic...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday met with Fatah members from Lebanon and Syria during Fatah's 7th conference in Ramallah. The Syrian delegation informed Abbas of the difficult circumstances faced...

Libya's outgoing UN ambassador has launched a scathing attack on the international community for its interference in his country's internal affairs. Ibrahim Dabbashi protested to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

Tunisia and the UK have yesterday signed an agreement to fund the building of two multidisciplinary hospitals in the Tunisian cities of Gabes and Beja. The agreement was signed...

UN Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrived in the temporary Yemeni capital Aden yesterday to meet with President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. His visit comes after the...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) has described casualty figures it released on the ongoing battle for Mosul as "staggering". Figures for November showed that 1,959 members...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is meeting European Union officials in Brussels to discuss ways to boost his country's economy. "The first visit by a Tunisian president to European...

Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the World Health Organisation has issued a report on health access, highlighting "how the Israeli permit system and physical...

Oil prices surged 4 percent on Thursday, with Brent crude at its highest in about 16 months, extending gains after OPEC and Russia agreed to restrict output to reduce...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner General Pierre Krenpol holds a press conference during his visit in Gaza.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry this morning announced that it would not recognise the new government formed by Yemen's Houthi movement. The ministry said the formation of a "national salvation"...

Coca-Cola has announced yesterday that it has opened the doors to its first factory in Gaza, in a move that could create hundreds of jobs in the besieged Palestinian...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the military prosecutor to drop charges against two journalists "impugning" the reputation of the army. The organisation said in a statement that...

Bahraini authorities have put a prominent human rights lawyer on trial for charges that include inciting against Sunni Islam, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today, in a further crackdown...

Oil prices increased to its highest in months after the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed to curb production for the first time since 2008. In a...

Another symbolic international day for Palestinian rights has degenerated into the usual stale observations and recommendations that do little other than try to impart a semblance of balance between...

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines-Cluster Munition Coalition (ICBL-CMC) has released a report highlighting the human cost of landmines last year. The ICBL-CMC is a global network of various...

When Fidel Castro died on Friday, it seemed for a moment that Donald Trump's America would revert back to being a voice on democracy and human rights. Trump's Vice...

The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Riyad Mansour, condemned Israeli policies he described as "entrenching a one-state reality of an apartheid nature", in remarks to mark the...

Human Rights Watch has condemned the Houthis' persecution of members of the Baha'i faith in Yemen. "Arresting someone on the basis of their religious beliefs or compelling them to...

More than 100,000 immigrants from the Horn of Africa have crossed the Gulf of Aden, on their way to Yemen, despite the violent conflict in the country, the United...

OPEC countries are close to clinching a deal to limit oil output, despite their differences. If a deal is reached, it will be OPEC's first production cut in eight...

It came out last month that Israel has been using the cover of the war in Syria to entrench its colonial occupation of the south-west of the country by...

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said that about half a million children in Syria are living under siege amid escalating violence in the country. The agency...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Arab League Council rejected and condemned on Tuesday the declaration by Yemen's Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh of the so-called...

A US military investigation has concluded that a series of "unintentional human errors" led to a 17 September coalition air strike that killed fighters aligned with the Syrian government...

French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault today called for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been...

Human Rights Watch has urged Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to not approve a draft bill that will further regulate civil society, the group said in a statement yesterday. Egypt's...