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The UN is gathering evidence that could potentially be used in future prosecutions of those involved in Israel's expulsion of French-Palestinian human rights lawyer, Salah Hamouri. A high-level team...
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A commission affiliated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has accused Israel of targeting Palestinian human rights groups in order to "delegitimise them and silence civil...
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the financial pledges it received during the donors' conference held in New York on Friday...
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June 8, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
If the UN excels at anything besides creating the conditions for human rights abuses, it is keeping track of human rights violations and disseminating the statistical data. There can...
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Iran, on Thursday, described its missile program as "conventional" and "legitimate", rejecting what it called "interventionist" remarks by Western leaders over the unveiling of the country's first hypersonic missile,...
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June 8, 2023
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Wafa Aludaini
Dozens of Palestinian children rallied on Tuesday morning in front of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) headquarters in Gaza City to protest against the halt and suspension of...
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At least 158 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since January, the ministry added. Israeli raids on Palestinian towns and cities in the occupied West Bank have been an almost nightly occurrence and have led to the majority of deaths.
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The UN investigative team to promote accountability for crimes committed by the Daesh terror group is "digitising" war crimes evidence to support prosecutions of perpetrators, an official said Wednesday,...
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Sudan's Army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots...
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The Russian Defence Ministry claimed, on Wednesday, that Ukraine's armed forces intentionally blasted the Tolyatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline in the Kharkiv region, which is mentioned in the Black Sea Grain...
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Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said yesterday, that Israel will sever relations with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) if...
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At least 10 Congolese citizens have been killed in an attack on a university campus in Khartoum. The UN's High Commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said yesterday: "We are...
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Egyptian security services refused to hold a funeral for policeman, Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, who carried out the Egyptian-Israeli border operation resulting in the death of three Israeli soldiers and the wounding of a fourth, in...
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The US State Department, on Tuesday, weighed in on a controversy over a performance by Pink Floyd co-founder, Roger Waters, denouncing the show in Berlin as "deeply offensive to...
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Iran reopened its embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, on Tuesday, Saudi media reported, months after the two regional rivals agreed to end years of antagonism under a Chinese-brokered deal....
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June 6, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine at the UN, Riyad Mansour, pointed out the unsustainability of donor funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
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European Union countries are expected, this week, to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of...
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The former French ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, has said that "Morocco is blackmailing France on the Sahara issue, after Paris was one of its biggest supporters...
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At 4am on 26 February 2023 at least 94 people died when the boat Summer Love crashed onto the rocks near the Italian village of Steccato di Cutro. The...
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The Arab Parliament has called on the international community and the United Nations Security Council to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and violations against the Palestinian people. Issuing...
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There Is no conflict of interest between leading the United Nation's next climate change summit in Dubai in December and heading the United Arab Emirates' state oil giant at...
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June 6, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Remarks on 24 May by China's Ambassador to the UN on the situation in Occupied Palestine were impeccable in terms of their consistency with international law. Compared with the...
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Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip held a demonstration against the reduction in UNRWA aid allocation within the World Food Programme
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The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that it was "shocked and saddened" by the killing of ten refugees in Sudan's conflict-torn capital, Khartoum. In a statement on Twitter,...
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The UN accused the warring parties in Sudan yesterday of committing "serious" violations against children, as well as killing civilians and attacking hospitals, Anadolu has reported. A statement from...
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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ramped up threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday, convening a rare cabinet war drill after he accused UN inspectors of failing to...
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On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder. Locals...
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Several Canadian organisations have filed a legal brief to Canada's government to bar former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, from entering the country. The application, known by its technical...
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The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the...
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The Syrian opposition's Negotiation Commission yesterday called for the resumption of direct talks with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, under UN auspices. "The international, regional and Syrian...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday of ineffectually policing Iran's nuclear activities and suggested the UN watchdog risked becoming politicised and irrelevant,...
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Friday that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is "on the verge of...