International Organisations

The Council of the European Union has adopted the EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression online and offline, adding to the EU's Human Rights Guidelines. The EU hailed the...

The Muslim Brotherhood praised the Brussels Declaration which was announced last week by a number of leading Egyptian political figures. The initiative seeks to unite all the revolutionary forces...

Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal Bin Fahd, General President of Youth Welfare authority in Saudi Arabia, said in an interview with the Saudi Sabq electronic newspaper that the Federation Internationale...

The EU move to upgrade formally its Association Agreement with Israel, giving the latter even greater preferential access to European markets, has come under criticism since its announcement...

Egypt's next president could not have made himself clearer. In two sessions of television interview that marked the start and mostly likely the end, too, of his election campaign,...

They could have gone to another friendly city in the Middle East or Europe, but a group of leading Egyptian opposition figures chose Brussels to launch their initiative to...

The International Union of Architects (IUA) discussed on Wednesday a call for expelling the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the union against the backdrop of the association's...

The African Union's Peace and Security Council rejected the union's participation in monitoring the upcoming presidential elections in Egypt. The PSC recommended Monday that the AU does not dispatch...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...

Today's mass death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court are a grotesque example of the shortcomings and the selective nature of Egypt's justice system, Amnesty International said. According...

As top diplomats from Iran, the European Union and six world powers convene in Vienna this week to negotiate the terms of a long-term agreement on Iran's controversial nuclear...

Food security is high on the agenda for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) this year, with member states convening next month to discuss how a region which imports between...

Last week, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen warned on Israeli television that the country would face "increasing isolation" if the peace process collapsed, echoing remarks he made in...

Diplomatic sources have said that the African Union has refused Egypt's request to join the organisation's Peace and Security Council summit which started in Addis Ababa on Wednesday. The...

When John Kerry, the US secretary of state, attempted to restart the stalled Israel-Palestine peace process, he set a deadline of April 2014 for an agreement. That deadline is...

The president of the European Union of Football Associations (UAFA), Michel Platini, has threatened to annul Israel's membership to the union because of the restrictions it imposes on Palestinian...

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has pledged that football's world-governing body will rebuild the Palestine stadium in the Gaza Strip after it was damaged by several Israeli air strikes...

Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki has called on the African Union to hold an urgent meeting to discuss a peaceful solution for the Egyptian crisis. Mr Marzouki has bypassed the...

The head of the African Union delegation currently in Egypt has compared ousted President Mohammed Morsi to South Africa's iconic leader Nelson Mandela. Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President...

Turkish news agency, Anatolia, has said that the African Union is expected to give the Egyptian issue top priority in the upcoming meeting of its elders committee to be...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Today the Internal Revenue Service received a 1,389 page filing demanding that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC's) tax exempt status be retroactively...

An official at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has warned that the Arab Spring revolutions might lead to the emergence of "regimes that are hostile towards the...

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC, expressed its full support for U.S. President Barack Obama's decisions on Syria. The committee demanded in a statement, that members of the...

While France and Russia are busy engaging in last minute diplomacy to prevent a US strike against Syria, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is deploying hundreds of...

One could be forgiven for thinking that the last three letters of AIPAC stand for "political action committee." But since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee does not itself...

The sixty-third anniversary of the Nakba witnessed a number of important events set up by Palestinian refugees in Arab countries surrounding Palestine, in the Diaspora, and inside the occupied...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is North America's most vociferous pro-Israel lobby group. This week Alan Mendoza of Britain's Henry Jackson Society offered an interesting glimpse into...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed his commitment towards military aggression against Iran. In the light of recent talks about Iran's uranium program, Netanyahu addressed the American Israeli...

Academic boycotts seem to resonate deeply within Israel, veering towards the dynamics of vengeance. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott the Israeli Presidential Conference sparked a furore on social...

Events in Egypt this week have been nothing if not fast-moving. On Wednesday, Mohammed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president in six decades, was overthrown. It has been...

The power of lobby groups in Washington has been well-documented. Whether their interest is in oil, tobacco, or international affairs, these unelected bodies have significant power over both parties...

This morning (November 30th) John Ging, the Head of the United Nation's Relief and Works Agency (), hosted a discussion on the current crisis in the Gaza Strip. The...