International Organisations

Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Pierre Krähenbühl revealed that his agency is facing "the most serious financial crisis since its creation nearly 60 years ago"....

The United States has supported Israel in rejecting a United Nations human rights investigation into the Gaza war, which has been described by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as...

Israel has blocked a scheduled visit by the UN human rights rapporteur to the Palestinian territories for the second year in a row, a foreign ministry official revealed yesterday....

Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday that he expected the UN fact-finding mission to condemn Israel's crimes, Al-Quds newspaper reported. Erekat said that the PA representative...

Sources from the Freedom Flotilla Alliance revealed that around 100 EU parliamentarians have signed a petition calling for the end of the eight-year Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip,...

The European boycott campaign against the Israeli settlements' agricultural products caused Israel's economy a loss $6 billion in the years 2013 and 2014. According to the data of the...

The Palestinian unity government slammed an Israeli report on last summer's offensive on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, noting this would not change its stance regarding the demand of...

Kuwait has donated US$15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its work with Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, UNRWA said in a statement...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has publically mocked the International Criminal Court's judicial role saying the Hague-based body died long ago and the African Union Summit is its burial ceremony....

Head of aid convoy Miles of Smiles Dr Isam Yousef has revealed sovereign Egyptian promises to open the Rafah border crossing for goods, Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper reported on Sunday....

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has urged African Union member states to boycott goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank by following the same labelling programme currently...

Since the end of the Israel's offensive against the people of Gaza last summer, Hamas has spent a great deal of its energy on proving to human rights organisations...

A high court in South Africa issued an interim order Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country. Al-Bashir is currently in South Africa attending the 25th...

The International Criminal Court has called on South Africa to arrest the president of Sudan, amid media reports that he will attend an African Union summit in Johannesburg. ICC...

A Sudanese diplomat revealed on Friday that Russia and China are supporting the demand for the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to be withdrawn from the area, Quds...

Russian news agency TASS reported on Friday that nuclear talks between Iran and the G5+1 world powers have "virtually stalled". The deadline for a final deal may have to...

Qatar's foreign minister has insisted that the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels is not finished until relevant UN Security Council resolutions take effect in Yemen. "The coalition will not...

Nearly 1,037 civilians have been killed in Yemen between 26 March and 7 June, including 130 women and 234 children, and a further 3,227 others were injured, UN spokesman...

UNRWA spokesman in Gaza Adnan Abu Hassana announced that the agency would be distributing $2 million to 556 families in Gaza. In an interview with Al-Quds local radio this...

Syrian authorities asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it convert a nuclear facility and to move potentially dangerous nuclear material abroad, according to agency chief Yukiya Amano....

Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company, is to relocate its factories and offices from an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. The company, which is...

-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has overruled his colleagues' recommendations and removed Israel from a list of parties guilty of grave violations of children's rights, it was revealed Monday. The...

In a recent gathering on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued to call for...

Israeli government officials and representatives of the European Union have held meeting over the past few days to prevent the labelling of products made in the settlements, local radio...

The UN-facilitated peace talks between Yemen's warring parties will resume next week in Geneva, the New York-based body has revealed. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the decisions by Yemen's exiled...

The Gaza Strip has been suffering worsening crises because of the nine-year long blockade, as well as the three Israeli wars that caused vast destruction to the enclave's infrastructure,...

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Makarim Wibisono has urged Israel not to implement its plans for the forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities in...

President Obama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the US will allow a United Nations vote on...

Human Rights Watch urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to add Israel to its annual "List of Shame" of children's rights violators. Israel, said the rights organisation, should...

On the 2nd of June 2015, we published a news item from Anadolu Agency titled "UNRWA warns services may cease within three months". In the item, we stated: UNRWA...

Since Israel's new hard-right coalition government came to power last month, there have been two major bogey men: Iran and BDS, the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction...

Interpol has identified 4,000 foreign fighters who joined jihadist groups in conflict areas, mainly Iran and Syria, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds yesterday reported a senior figure saying. "In September 2014,...