The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced yesterday that it would pay around $6 million to reconstruct and repair Palestinian...

Abrupt and unprecedented developments have characterised a long week in Moroccan-Sahara diplomacy. Signs of disagreement arose when UN chief Ban Ki-moon refused to reschedule his visit to North Africa....

Demonstrators held a protest outside UNICEF’s office in London on Friday evening urging it to end its contract with British security company G4S. Activists from Inminds human rights group...

Former Egyptian parliamentarians, who were members of the Shura Council that got dissolved when then-President Mohamed Morsi was ousted on 3 July 2013, called on the United Nations and...

Matters are getting complicated for the Libyan national accord government due to the refusal of the Tripoli parliament and its own government to recognise it. This is despite the...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has announced plans to build four new schools in the Gaza Strip funded by the...

The Syrian opposition seeks to engage directly in negotiations with the regime delegation in order to achieve a fast political transition and end the Syrian people’s suffering, an official...

Three human rights groups yesterday filed a complaint at the UN Human Rights Commission against Israel’s ban on the Islamic Movement and Arab charities, Quds Press reported. Mizan, the...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Tuesday that it has received $31.8 million in financial assistance from Saudi Arabia for rebuilding Palestinian...

The United Nations war crimes investigators on Syria said yesterday that prosecutions against war criminals in the country should not wait until the end of the conflict which is...

British ambassador to Egypt John Casson yesterday reiterated his country’s concerns regarding the human rights situation in Egypt. In a tweet, Casson said: “UK deeply concerned about detentions of...

Iran’s foreign minister claimed on Tuesday that the ballistic missile tests conducted by his country do not violate UN resolutions and are not illegal. Mohammad Javad Zarif made his...

I met a professor of agriculture recently, one of the millions of refugees from Syria. He succeeded in escaping the Assad regime’s siege of Homs that lasted from May...

The only ‘plan B’ to the success of Syrian peace talks in Geneva is a return to war, a UN envoy warned on Monday. Speaking at the beginning of...

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) has criticised remarks made by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the disputed Western Sahara territory during his visit to...

Libya’s UN-backed Presidential Council announced on Saturday that the national unity government is ready to assume power after receiving support from the majority of MPs. Also read: French forces...

The Egyptian foreign ministry rejected EU criticism of human rights in the country on Friday, calling it “baseless”. The criticism is not based on “true evidence,” insisted Cairo. Also...

Former United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria, Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, speaks exclusively to Al Jazeera English: Says that “there were no good guys in the Syrian...

Seventeen violations of the truce in Syria were documented on its 12th day, bringing the total number of breaches to 435, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported yesterday....

Iran executed nearly 1,000 people last year, according to a UN report released Thursday, the highest level in two decades. The executions took place as Tehran was negotiating with...

Women and children took to the streets on Wednesday in the Syrian town of Darya, south-west of the capital Damascus, to call on the United Nations to send humanitarian...

Twenty-seven violations were documented on the ninth day of the temporary truce in Syria, bringing the total number of breaches in the first 10 days of the ceasefire to...

The UN is following up on Iran’s ballistic tests which were disclosed yesterday, the official spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon revealed yesterday. In a press conference held...

The renewed conflict in Yemen has forcibly displaced more than 2.4 million Yemenis and the situation is likely to worsen, a statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan has ended its contract with British security giant G4S, following a campaign by Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activists. UNICEF’s decision...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday that he has asked his envoy for the disputed Western Sahara territory to meet the Polisario independence movement and Morocco...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expects there to be major difficulties in sending refugees back to Syria, Masralarabia.com reported on Friday. Could you make it as a refugee? Since...

Foreign military intervention in Libya will only exacerbate the war-torn country’s already dire humanitarian crisis, according to UN deputy envoy to Libya Ali al-Zaatari. ​ In an exclusive interview...

UNICEF Special Representative in Libya Ghassan Khalil has said that Libyan children are living under “catastrophic conditions”, which are becoming more difficult over time. Khalil made his remarks to...

The Japanese government yesterday donated $38.21 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement, UNRWA said that...

Syrian opposition has accused the Syrian regime and its allies of killing 29 people in attacks following the recently agreed cessation of hostilities agreement. In a letter sent to...

At least 15 people were killed in Syria on the first day of a cessation-of-hostilities agreement between the Assad regime and opposition forces, a UK-based monitoring group has said....