This spring, as Egypt’s parliament debated handing General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi greater power and allowing him to govern until 2030. Speaker Ali Abdelaal declared the proposals were the will of the nation’s legislature. The ideas, [ More … ]
International indices and reports are periodically produced by international institutions, whether governmental or independent, for those who are interested in understanding what is going on in the world and its expected trends in the future. [ More … ]
The UK Detention Review Panel (DRP) has issued its official report on the detention conditions of Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who was overthrown by the military in 2013. The UK Detention [ More … ]
Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian police and National Security agents have routinely used torture and enforced disappearances against both criminal suspects and perceived political opponents with near impunity, according to HRW. In 2011, the world [ More … ]
U.S. officials are supportive for the permanent revocation of the economic sanctions on Sudan, says Bloomberg, a business and market news agency, in a report released on Thursday. In line with a five-track engagement over [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The decision made by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in relation to Turkey was, to put it as lightly as possible, biased and political. PACE, which Turkey is among [ More … ]
In a report issued ahead of a United Nations meeting to discuss the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) released a report on [ More … ]
The OSCE claimed a “lack of equal opportunities, one-sided media coverage and limitations on fundamental freedoms” had created an “unlevel playing field” in Turkey’s constitutional referendum. “In general, the referendum did not live up to [ More … ]
The much-anticipated annual report of the United Nations Secretary General on Western Sahara is due to be submitted to the Security Council in the coming days. Based on the recommendations of the report, the 15-member [ More … ]
UK Foreign Affairs Committee report raised concerns about erosion of democracy in Turkey following failed 15 July coup attempt The Turkish government on Saturday attacked a UK parliamentary report into the relationship between the two [ More … ]
After the head of a United Nations agency resigned from her post, citing pressure from the UN Secretary-General to censor a new report that accused Israel of imposing an apartheid regime on Palestinians, Palestinian officials [ More … ]
A new report has ranked the UAE among the world’s top 25 countries based on a series of benchmarks, including quality of life, business-friendliness and heritage. The US News and World Report survey evaluated 80 [ More … ]
BY: Hatice Karahan* The Washington-based Heritage Foundation has been publishing the global Index of Economic Freedom annually since 1995 and putting the countries in order in this respect. If you ask what economic freedom is, the [ More … ]
European Commission forecasts ‘political and policy uncertainty’ to fall in second half of 2017 following Turkish referendum The European Commission on Monday forecast Turkey’s economy to grow 2.8 percent in 2017. In its Winter 2017 [ More … ]
As many as 13,000 people most of them opposition supporters have been executed at Syrian ‘Saydnaya’ military prison near Damascus. Horrifying details have been released from inside a Syrian “human slaughterhouse” where up to 13,000 [ More … ]
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