International Organisations

Tomorrow, FIFA will come to a decision on whether they will suspend Israel's football association after the Palestinian Football Federation filed a complaint on Israeli abuse towards Palestinian footballers....

Israeli and mainstream media have once again united in a chorus of righteous indignation following the release of Amnesty International's report "Strangling Necks – Abductions, torture and summary killings...

This week, the eyes of the world are on Fifa, the international governing body of football, after top executives were arrested in Switzerland on American corruption charges. Fifa has...

An international campaigning community has released a petition calling on the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) to suspend Israel's membership until it stops its discriminatory policies against the...

The head of the Palestinian National Council, Salim Al-Za'noun, has condemned the Israeli jail sentence given to Dr Aziz Dweik, the head of the Palestinian parliament. In a statement...

UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl issued a memorandum two days ago calling for more conservatism in spending due to the agency's budget deficit, and for a further reduction in...

UNRWA has been forced to suspend its monthly cash assistance for housing to Palestinian refugee families from Syria living in Lebanon. Starting from July this year, more than 43,000...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday called for increasing the ability of Middle Eastern countries to enable them to defend themselves, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a meeting with the...

EU Commission in Morocco has denied plans that it has applied for African countries on the Mediterranean to host drone airbases to track migrants to European countries, the Anadolu...

Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza yesterday called on Amnesty International to be more accurate in its reports, describing a recent report regarding Hamas as "non-professional", Quds Press reported. The...

Tony Blair resigned as Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, a source close to the former British prime minister said on Wednesday. "He remains fully committed to assisting the...

A representative of the European-Greens Free Alliance, Elisabet Nebreda, has said that the European Parliament rejects the continued imprisonment of the speaker of Aziz Dweik, the Palestinian Legislative Council,...

The director of UNRWA's operations in the Gaza Strip, Robert Turner, said Wednesday that he had submitted his resignation and plans to leave his current post in the blockaded...

The General Syndication Congress for employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that it will escalate protest measures should the organisation not...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked his envoy to Yemen on Tuesday to postpone talks in Geneva at the request of the Yemeni government and other stakeholders, Anadolu has reported....

I have just published a short expose for Newsweek, in which a British government adviser called the European Union plan to deploy force against people traffickers along the Libyan...

The European Union's head of foreign affairs warned on Monday that there is no chance of overcoming ISIS through military means alone. The deep underlying causes for the group's...

A diplomatic source has revealed that Algeria has rejected a request from the European Union to host a base for drones to be used to track illegal migrants on...

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union on Sunday have agreed to resolve the Yemeni conflict based on UN Security Council Resolution 2216. In a joint statement issued...

Yemen's Houthi group yesterday made its participation in a UN-sponsored conference on Yemen in Geneva later this month conditional on the halt of an ongoing air offensive launched by...

Palestine was elected to chair the third Meeting of States Parties to the UNESCO 1970 Convention on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property for the first time earlier this week....

Local media have reported that the European Union has decided to appoint a permanent envoy in the occupied city of Jerusalem to push forward the political process between the...

Walking through some of the most miserable camps on earth where people have sought refuge after fleeing wars or natural disasters is always a humbling experience. However, it's not...

Egypt's former presidential candidate, Mohamed El-Baradei, said the Egyptian authorities ignored a roadmap put forward by national forces that guaranteed the peaceful transition of power on 30 June 2013....

The UN envoy to the Middle East, Nikolay Mladenov, said on Tuesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority must work to prevent the collapse of the besieged Gaza...

Human Rights Watch yesterday denounced the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to allow the evacuation of Palestinians and demolition of the village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Negev and the...

The Department of International Relations in the Palestine Liberation Organisation called on the United Nations to respond immediately to the Israeli authorities' demolition of Palestinians homes in the occupied...

Senior UN officials have urged the Israeli government to "halt plans to transfer Palestinian Bedouins" in the central West Bank. In a joint press release Wednesday, the Humanitarian Coordinator...

This month, Egypt's former President, Mohamed Morsi, was sentenced to death. He was among more than 100 defendants given the death penalty for their role in a mass jailbreak...

The European Union is seeking UN approval to use military action to target smuggling networks which are operating out of Libya. The proposal is in response to the increasing...

A meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers agreed on Monday to launch a naval mission to combat illegal migration in the Mediterranean Sea, Anadolu has reported. The mission...

Member of political board of the Syrian coalition Anas Al-Abda expressed his sadness that the Syrian revolution, like other issues in the region, is paying the price because its...