By AFP – May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Arab Israelis and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, at a village near Rahat in southern Israel, on Thursday. The […]
By AFP – May 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES People wait to board a bus as they are transferred to a different location, at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek border village of Idomeni, on Monday (Reuters photo) UNITED NATIONS — A new UN plan to tackle […]
By AFP – May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this April 16, photo, Palestinian children fill plastic gallons with drinking water from a vendor in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited freshwater supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is […]
May 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH If the Geneva talks on Syria are collapsing or are about to, the reason should not be simply found to the raging fighting in Aleppo and the atrocities committed there as a result of the intensive Syrian forces aerial bombardment of […]
Apr 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JONATHAN POWER A woman for the next secretary general of the United Nations? Well, it is a lot more complicated than that. There are other criteria in play; there is an unwritten rule that the regions of the world should take turns to occupy the […]
By Reuters – Apr 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES UN Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Syria Staffan de Mistura gestures prior to a round of negotiations between the Syria’s regime-tolerated opposition (Moscow-Cairo group) and the UN, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on […]
Source: Reuters BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY United Nations torture experts called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to stop corporal punishment, including flogging and amputations, practices that the Gulf kingdom considers an integral part of its interpretation of Islamic law. The committee that monitors the U.N. Convention against Torture, in its first […]
Syria has been rocked by fighting in recent weeks, particularly around the city of Aleppo. Photo: AFP Obama, UN envoy voice alarm at ‘fraying’ Syria truce Published: 24 Apr 2016 08:57 GMT+02:00 Syria’s fragile ceasefire is in grave peril, US President Barack Obama and the UN’s special envoy warned, as […]
Apr 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD The consequences of Russia’s intervention in Syria stretch far beyond the Middle East. The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favour of the government and derailed efforts to craft a political compromise to end the war. It also heralds the […]
Could not one of those dead children among the five hundred souls on the sinking Mediterranean boat become a ‘superstar’? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Has something gone adrift within the moral […]
MARK LEONARD ARABNEWS.COM Published — Thursday 21 April 2016 We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, […]
Reuters International Apr 20, 2016 – ROME (Reuters) – Up to 500 migrants might have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already overcrowded ship, causing it to sink, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday. Somalia’s government said on Monday about […]
Apr 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – By Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan Humanity hoped that the 21st century would herald a new era of global cooperation. This, however, may turn […]
Syrian civilians and activists hold a banner reading in Arabic “Long live Syria, down with Assad” during an anti-regime demonstration. Photo: AFP Published: 17 Apr 2016 18:22 GMT+02:00 Syria’s opposition High Negotiations Committee threatened Sunday to suspend its participation in UN-backed peace talks if there is no progress on […]
By JT – Apr 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this photo taken on Thursday, Syrian families load their belongings onto a bus in the town of Palmyra in the central Homs province, Syria (AP photo) AMMAN – The World Bank Group (WBG) on Friday announced that eight nations […]
Apr 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The resumption on Wednesday of Syria peace talks in Geneva coincides with continued violence in this Arab country and stubborn differences regarding the issues to be discussed first. While there is now a broad agreement that the political transition issue should figure high on […]
Apr 13,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The two sides involved in the intra-Syrian peace talks resuming in Geneva this week are taking seriously the dictum “you don’t win at the peace table what you don’t win on the battlefield”. Between this round and the last, the Syrian regular army, backed […]
April 13, 2016 TEHRAN – “We are happy that we are getting close to a political solution of the [Syrian] crisis,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of his meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Tehran, […]
EMRE GÖNEN Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma If the EU had made a deal among its member countries to find a solution for the increasing fascism in Europe, maybe their view on Syrian refugees would be something more humane After the signing of the deal between Turkey and the […]
By Simon Bradley, Geneva APR 8, 2016 – Young activists set up tents outside the UN in Geneva last month to highlight the cost-of-living problems (@UNPAIDisUNSEEN) The plight of unpaid interns hit the headlines last year amid uproar over a United Nations intern living in a tent in Geneva. Seven […]