International Organisations

Less than a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2012 warning to the UN General Assembly that Iran was 70 per cent of the way to completing its "plans...

UNRWA needs $100 million in urgent relief in the first quarter of this year to enable it to help repair homes destroyed during Israel's war on the Gaza Strip...

A Palestinian lady from the Gaza Strip is a leading figure in operating NASA's Orion Spacecraft and is responsible for software/hardware integration and testing to ensure the spacecraft is...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for urgent action to lift sieges on civilians and to end barrel bomb attacks in Syria, denouncing a business-as-usual approach to...

The UN has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime to release thousands of people who have been held in detention for years. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid...

A minister in Libya's Tripoli-based Islamist government called on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to put an end to the Egyptian army's "criminal operations" in...

UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar described the "constitutional declaration" announced by the Shia Houthi rebels as "unilateral action" which means that it will not be adopted as a...

The UN has launched an appeal for $700m to meet the humanitarian needs of 1.6 million vulnerable Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. At a press conference last Thursday,...

The UN Security Council on Sunday demanded Yemen's Houthi rebels relinquish control of the government and withdraw their forces from the capital. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a Britain and Jordan-drafted...

The European Parliament urged the European Union to organise an international conference to raise financial assistance for refugees in Iraq and Syria and the countries that host them, the...

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini yesterday called on Israel to release the Palestinian Authority's tax revenues as an immediate measure to address the...

Libya reopened its oil port of Hariga yesterday, ending a strike by guards that had threatened to further slash exports as rival factions fight for control of the OPEC country,...

UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson called on Tuesday for donor countries to fulfil their pledges made for the "desolate" Gaza Strip, a UN statement said. Eliasson was speaking...

As April approaches, Morocco is hectically preparing for the UN's annual renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which was...

Following on from the tragic and brutal murder of the Jordanian fighter pilot Mu'ath Al-Kaseasbeh at the hands of his ISIS captors, many people have been thinking about other...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised a recent statement issued by the Quartet saying the group's statement "did not live up to expectations" and "ignored Israel's apparent violation...

European Union envoy to Yemen Bettina Muscheidt intends to leave the crisis-rocked nation within 48 hours "for security reasons," a source with the EU's mission in Yemen said Wednesday....

Israel believes that the European Union is preparing to impose severe sanctions on settlements built on occupied Palestinian land. Officials who have visited European foreign ministries and the EU...

Israeli officials, who recently visited European foreign ministries and the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, said that the EU is preparing to impose severe sanctions on...

During the 51st Munich Security Conference last Sunday, the Middle East Quartet urged for a resumption of negotiations between Israel and Palestine and expressed concern about the impediments that...

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday rejected the United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's accusations that he supports the Shia Houthi rebels in "undermining" the political process in Yemen,...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Friday for international donors to fulfil their pledges to rebuild the Gaza Strip, Anadolu has reported. The financial assistance was pledged at...

The Bethlehem region is increasingly fragmented by Israeli occupation policies, according to a new UN agency factsheet. The OCHA publication, 'Bethlehem governorate: fragmentation and humanitarian concerns', details ways in...

A group of 75 US senators have signed a letter addressed to the current US Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to punish Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

Left-wing politicians in the EU Parliament undermined a visit by Israeli Major General Yoav Mordechai because he has "blood on his hands" according to Northern Ireland MEP Martina Anderson....

The European Union ambassador to Morocco Robert Joy said the EU hopes to resume talks over the signing of a comprehensive free trade agreement with Rabat, the Anadolu Agency...

The United Nations team which is investigating potential war crimes committed by Israel during its war on the Gaza Strip last summer will release its report on time next...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged European Union member states to close satellite channels affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood that are broadcasting via European satellites. During his Tuesday...

A spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General, Estefan Dogrk, said Israel had demanded the removal of William Schabas, the chairman of the UN Human Rights Council commission investigating...

Israel has cheered a UN Human Rights Council decision to appoint American jurist Mary McGowan-Davis as the replacement for William Schabas who resigned from his post as chairman of...

After more than 20 twenty years of laborious and intermittent negotiations, peace remains as elusive as ever in Palestine-Israel, while the civilian death toll, violations of international law and...

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has outlined two conditions necessary in order for his country to reach a final agreement on its nuclear file; namely recognising Iran's...