EU to suspend Israel trade concessions, halt 2025–2027 allocations
The European Commission has proposed on Wednesday suspending certain trade-related provisions of the Association…
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Egypt reiterates full support for UNRWA ‘indispensable’ role in Gaza
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Atty on Saturday reaffirmed Cairo’s full backing for the UN agency for…
Egypt’s PM reviews proposed changes to human rights law
Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly met Monday with Mahmoud Karem, acting head of the National Council for…
Egypt’s CAPMAS inks cooperation deal with NCHR
Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) signed a cooperation protocol with the…
EU provisionally agrees to €4bn aid for Egypt
The European Council has reached Monday a provisional agreement with the European Parliament to disburse Egypt €4…
Barcelona city suspends ties with Israel over Gaza war
The city council of Barcelona, Spain's second-largest city, has decided on Friday to suspend institutional…
Total siege of Gaza ‘prohibited’ under international law – UN
Israel's total siege of Gaza, depriving civilians of water and food, is "prohibited" under international law, said…
Iranian Rial records new low against U.S. dollar
Iranian Rial hits a new recorded low against the U.S. dollar on Saturday, despite central bank attempts to reduce…
Sisi defends Egypt’s human rights record in press conference with Macron
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that Egyptian authorities do not use force against unarmed…
Egypt to establish higher human rights committee
Egypt's Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly on Tuesday decided to establish a permanent higher…
Egypt OKs draft resolution to form committee for human rights
During its weekly meeting headed by Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly on Wednesday, Egypt's government approved a…
EU-Egypt Association Agreement subcommittee concludes 5th session in Cairo
The Subcommittee on Political Matters, Human Rights and Democracy of the Association Agreement between Egypt and…
Amnesty accuses EU of abetting migrant rights violations in Libya
European governments are “complicit” in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for…
Egypt summons European envoys over ‘unacceptable’ human rights statement
Egypt on Sunday summoned several European ambassadors following their criticism of the detention of an Egyptian…
France’s Emmanuel Macron refuses to lecture Egypt on civil liberties
French President Emmanuel Macron has disappointed rights activists by refusing to publicly call out visiting…
France 24 TV interview: Sisi reiterates no imprisoned political activists in Egypt
President Abdel Fattah Sisi appeared in a TV interview, Monday, with French state-run TV channel, France 24, in…
France’s Macron to receive Egypt’s Sisi in Paris on 24 October
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday, the 24th of October,…
Egypt’s Moshira Khattab targets position of Africa’s first UNESCO…
Moshira Khattab, acclaimed Egyptian diplomat, human rights advocate and the official nominee for director-general…
Syria’s deadliest month of 2017 claims 3,000 lives
Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict…
Rights groups sue Trump administration over travel ban
Human rights organisations announced Friday they are suing the Trump administration over the latest version of the…
Human rights in Egypt shouldn’t be judged from Western perspective: Sisi in US
The state of human rights in Egypt shouldn't be judged from a Western perspective, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi…
Saudi Arabia calls for social media informants decried as ‘Orwellian’
Saudi Arabia has urged its people to report subversive comments spotted on social media via a phone app, a move…
Open inquiry into deadly Saudi strikes in Yemen: UN rights envoy
The United Nations has verified 5,144 civilian deaths in the war in Yemen, mainly from airstrikes by the…
U.S. Senate panel votes to cut millions in Egypt aid over human rights woes
US Senate’s Foreign Aid Spending Panel has proposed cutting $300 million from military aid to the country in a…
French police use excessive force on Calais migrants: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch pressed France on Wednesday to end what it described as recurrent police violence against…
Syrian Observatory says eight killed in Ghouta air strikes
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said overnight air strikes killed at least eight people in the rebel-held…
Iraq collectively punishing ISIS families: HRW
Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi security forces of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged…
Qatar says Syria ‘de-escalation’ plan not an alternative to political…
Qatar's foreign minister on Tuesday welcomed a Russian-brokered agreement for "de-escalation" zones in Syria but…
Rights group accuses Syria of several likely nerve agent attacks
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Syrian government forces of likely dropping bombs containing nerve agents at…
US-backed militias oust IS from Syria’s Tabqa old city
U.S.-backed militias said on Monday they had pushed Islamic State fighters out of the old quarters of Tabqa, a…
White House defends Trump invitation to Duterte despite human rights criticism
The White House on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's decision to invite Philippines President Rodrigo…
Air strikes kill at least 18 in Syria’s Idlib
Air strikes killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday,…
Air strike kills over 30 near Syria’s Raqqa: observatory
At least 33 people were killed in an air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near Islamic State…
Tens of thousands flee clashes between Syria army, ISIS
Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians have fled ferocious fighting between Russian-backed regime forces and Islamic…
Egyptian parliament rejects death penalty’s abolition
The human rights committee of Egypt's parliament said it will never recommend that the death penalty be abolished,…
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood says they are not terrorists: Dar Al-Ifta
The Muslim Brotherhood are spreading lies through systematic campaigns that aim to turn global public opinion and…
Hundreds die in India police custody
Nearly 600 people died in police custody in India between 2010 and 2015, says the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW)…
Sisi stresses on Egypt’s respect for human rights
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said he will release all prisoners recommended by the Detained Youth Committee in…
Egypt court orders freezing assets of top human rights activists
A court in Cairo has ordered a freeze on the assets of five leading human rights activists and three human rights…
Egypt MPs Geneva visit to attend human rights conference sparks controversy
Ten Egyptian MPs are currently in Geneva, Switzerland to attend a conference on human rights. The delegation,…