Inside Geneva: Can the city of peace stop the arms race?
By Imogen Foulkes in Geneva This content was published on February 11, 2019 Last week on the train to Geneva, I heard the tell-tale wail of sirens. That time of […]
Saudi state implicated into Khashoggi killing: UN experts
Source: Australian Muslim Times By Abu Anees The UN human rights investigator Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard leading the international inquiry into the murder of Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has obtained conclusive evidence implicating the […]
Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camps, says refugees’ plight ‘shames us all’
Source: Reuters By Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR (Reuters) – U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday visited camps in Bangladesh for Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and condemned […]
How Netanyahu is freezing out the international community
Chris Doyle February 04, 2019 From the outset of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the question of Palestine has been an international issue. International actors inserted the conflict into the region, with […]
Exclusive: U.N. expert to lead international inquiry into Khashoggi murder
This content was published on January 24, 2019 By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions told Reuters on Thursday […]
Enshrined Impotence. Germany Joins a Dysfunctional Security Council
Germany is once again part of the UN Security Council for a two-year stint. But the council’s inability to put a stop to the violence in Syria and Yemen in […]
Arriving in Riyadh, Pompeo urges Gulf states to heal rift
By Reuters – Jan 13,2019 – JORDAN TIMES DOHA/RIYADH — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that a rift between Qatar and its Gulf Arab neighbours […]
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s refugee status is great news, but we’re in danger of settling for one happy ending
There are no doubt countless women with similar stories in Saudi Arabia, and they need an effective global feminist foreign policy that protects them Dahaba Ali Hussen @DahabaH The Independent […]
Saudi teen’s asylum case being judged at lightning speed
Source: Yahoo News BY Andrew BEATTY Australian authorities are weighing a young Saudi woman’s asylum claim at unusual speed, several lawyers and legal experts have told AFP, contrasting her high-profile […]
Saudi teenager Rahaf offers a blueprint for others – but there will be frustration at the back of the asylum queue
Will the powerful use of social media by one savvy woman change our attitude to asylum seekers fleeing abusive families or regimes? Janet Street-Porter The Independent Voices Months on from […]
‘You saved Rahaf’s life’: online outcry kept ‘terrified’ Saudi woman safe, says friend
Source: The Guardian BY Jamie Fullerton in Kuala Lumpur and Helen Davidson Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, the Saudi Arabian woman who fled her family and is now under UN protection in Thailand, has been […]
What’s Next for Fleeing Saudi Woman?
By RICHARD C. PADDOCK Mohammed Alqunun views her mobile phone as she sits barricaded in a hotel room at an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Alqunun says she […]
Father of Saudi teen asylum seeker in Thailand, seeks meeting
Jan 8, 2019 – 11:05 By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) – The father of an 18-year-old Saudi woman asylum seeker who fled to Thailand saying she feared her […]
Judge Richard Goldstone suffered for turning his back on Gaza – but not as much as the Palestinians he betrayed
Friends of Goldstone told me that he had been painfully pressured to recant, and was in a state of great personal distress Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices The Independent Voices When […]
Advance U.N. truce monitors arrive in Yemen’s Hodeidah
This content was published on December 23, 2018 swissinfo.ch By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. advance team arrived in Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah on Sunday […]
Denial of human rights cause of world conflicts
Dec 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The 70th Human Rights Day has come and gone with little fanfare across the globe. The occasion for the commemoration of the day was […]
U.N. watchdog presses Saudi Arabia on alleged torture of activists
Source: Reuters BY Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights watchdog has urged Saudi authorities to free over a dozen rights activists detained in the kingdom, alleging that some […]
UN seeks $5.5b to help countries hosting Syria refugees
By AFP – Dec 11,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugee children ride their bicycles at Azraq refugee camp, near Al Azraq city, Jordan, December 8 (Reuters photo) AMMAN — The United […]
West hypocritical on defending human rights, Erdoğan says
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at an event in Istanbul titled, ‘Civilization of Humanity,’ marking the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human […]
Why do we need the Global Compact for Migration?
By Simon Bradley Dec 10, 2018 – 11:00 United Nations member states are meeting in Morocco on Monday to formally adopt an international agreement that promises a better, more coordinated […]