The UN special rapporteur on Palestine slammed Tuesday Israel’s decision to deny visa to UN staff, saying “baseless attacks” on the organization prove “moral cowardice”, reported Anadolu Agency. She added, and called for a cease-fire [ More … ]
Israel and the United States have shown their sharpest public disagreement yet over the conduct and future of the war against Hamas as the two allies became increasingly isolated by global calls for a ceasefire. [ More … ]
UN agency warns of severe food shortages, supplies insufficient to address dangerous hunger levels in Gaza Strip UN World Food Program alerts to potential famine in Gaza Strip due to critically insufficient supplies, urging swift [ More … ]
Since October 7, Israel has targeted Gaza with relentless air and artillery strikes, killing at least 9,770 people in Gaza, mostly children, women, and elderly people; “Enough is enough”. The heads of all major UN [ More … ]
Craig Mokhiber, director of UN human rights body, accuses the US, UK, and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’ against civilians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Turkey prepares to notify the International Criminal [ More … ]
Egypt has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old U.N. grains treaty, reported Reuters. The decision has caused consternation among other signatories to the convention. It follows a period [ More … ]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee will hold a two-day session (today and tomorrow) to examine the Egyptian government’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Egypt ratified in 1982 [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say the United Nations must adopt a resolution on the dire human rights situation in Egypt. Reactions have continued to the leaked message from prisoners at Badr-3 Prison, which highlighted the violations [ More … ]
Egypt is experiencing a worsening human rights crisis, prompting NGOs to call on the UN to take urgent procedures to address the crisis. The UN HRC must adopt a resolution on the human rights crisis [ More … ]
Egypt’s human rights crisis has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, according to a recent human rights report submitted to the United Nations The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and [ More … ]
Twenty-nine out of 54 members voted to expel Iran from the UN commission on women over regime’s crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody. Eight member states voted [ More … ]
The United Nations says it is investigating reportedly misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year’s international climate talks. This follows accusations that attendees of events at the German pavilion for the COP27 [ More … ]
Sewage pipe in Egypt bursts after COP27 attendees complain about lack of basic necessities. First there was no water. Then there was too much of the wrong kind. Participants of this year’s U.N. climate conference [ More … ]
As Egypt prepares to stage COP27, the geopolitical context that shapes all international diplomacy has gone from tense to precarious, said Bloomberg in a recent report. Egypt, the summit host, is contending with inflation that [ More … ]
Five UN human rights experts have warned that Egypt is creating a climate of fear for Egyptian civil society organizations ahead of COP27 Five United Nations human rights experts yesterday warned that the Egyptian government [ More … ]
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