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Libya Latest News

Turkey, Libya maritime deal sent to UN: Erdogan

December 8, 2019 MEO Staff

Turkey’s maritime boundary delimitation agreement with Libya was sent to the United Nations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Dec. 7. Erdogan said the deal — already signed by the president — was ratified [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

UN officially asks Israel to leave Golan Heights

December 5, 2019 MEO Staff

The UN General Assembly yesterday officially asked Israel to leave the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The request was made after the resolution was adopted after 91 UN member states voted in favor, nine rejected and [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

U.S. presses Sisi on reported torture, mass arrests at U.N. review

November 14, 2019 MEO Staff

Egypt has faced strong criticism at a United Nations review of its rights record, with diplomats voicing alarm over detention conditions and shrinking freedoms in the country recently rocked by mass protests. The United States and other Western [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen’s Houthis Free 290 Prisoners as Part of UN-Supervised Swap

September 30, 2019 MEO Staff

Nearly 300 prisoners, including dozens of survivors from a Saudi-led coalition strike on a detention center earlier this month, were freed by the Houthis, the ICRC said on today. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have freed 290 [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt torture conference a ‘kafkaesque horror’, says head of ERC

August 20, 2019 MEO Staff

Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC) Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be [ More … ]

UN: Assad must be tried, Syria is torture-chamber
Egypt Latest News

Rights groups criticize U.N. decision to hold conference on torture in Egypt

August 16, 2019 MEO Staff

Human rights activists on Thursday criticized a United Nations decision to hold a conference in Cairo on torture with an Egyptian state organization. “It’s illogical for a country where torture is systematic to host a [ More … ]

Syria Latest News

On Syrian uprising anniversary, $7bn raised in Brussels falls short of UN target

March 18, 2019 MEO Staff

International donors at a Belgian conference pledged $7bn to help Syrian refugees, falling short of what the UN said it needed on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the country’s uprising. More than 370,000 [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

U.N. Says Israel May Have Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2018 Gaza Protests

February 28, 2019 MEO Staff

United Nations investigators reported on Thursday that Israeli forces who fired on Palestinians during the mass demonstrations on the border with Gaza, killing more than 100 people, may have committed war crimes. The report, by [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

UN concerned about flawed trials and torture in Egypt

February 26, 2019 MEO Staff

The UN human rights office voiced concern about trials that saw 15 people executed in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations of torture used to obtain confessions. Egypt executed nine men on [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Evidence shows Khashoggi murder planned, carried out by Saudi officials: UN

February 8, 2019 MEO Staff

A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials. Khashoggi’s killing by a team of Saudi [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

A UN Khashoggi inquiry seeks access to Saudi consulate, kingdom

January 27, 2019 MEO Staff

UN executions investigator heading inquiry in Turkey A U.N. human rights investigator leading an international inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Saturday she had made a request to have access [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

US ambassador to UN Haley blames Saudi crown prince for murder 

December 13, 2018 MEO Staff

US ‘can’t give Saudi Arabia a pass’ on Khashoggi, US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says, blames crown prince for murder  Saudi Arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. [ More … ]

Palestine Latest News

U.N. Fails to Pass U.S.-Sponsored Resolution Condemning Hamas

December 8, 2018 MEO Staff

A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]

Qatar Latest News

Qatar takes UAE to UN human rights court over boycott

June 12, 2018 MEO Staff

Qatari government says UAE has violated an international discrimination convention while Emirati minister says its another of Doha’s ‘lies’ The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations’ International Court of [ More … ]

Syria Latest News

Iran says attacks in Syria’s Ghouta will continue despite UN ceasefire

February 26, 2018 MEO Staff

Iran says it will target ‘terrorists’ not covered by latest UN ceasefire resolution Iran said attacks would continue on rebel-held areas near Damascus, where clashes were reported on Sunday between rebels and government forces despite [ More … ]

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