Posts tagged with "united nations"

U.S. restores assistance for Palestinians, to provide $235 million in aid Palestine

U.S. restores assistance for Palestinians, to provide $235 million in aid

April 8th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C./WEST BANK — On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced it would provide $235 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut off by former President Trump. The package, including humanitarian, economic and...
Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war's end COMMUNITY

Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end

March 1st, 20210 SANAA — Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything, including his wife’s gold, to feed and house two young daughters in one small room. Elsewhere in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, widow Mona Muhammad has work, but struggles to buy anything more nutritious than rice for her four children amid high prices. And in a nearby...
Biden seeks to raise refugee cap to 125,000 COMMUNITY

Biden seeks to raise refugee cap to 125,000

February 4th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, President Biden said he seeks to raise the annual refugee cap to 125,000, an increase that will take place in the beginning of October. Biden made the announcement during a speech at the U.S. State Department. Biden also said he would approve an executive order that would restore the U.S. refugee...
Biden ends U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, says war "has to end" COMMUNITY

Biden ends U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, says war “has to end”

February 4th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, President Biden declared a halt to U.S. support for a Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen, demanding that the more than six-year war, widely seen as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, “has to end.” Biden also named veteran U.S. diplomat Timothy Lenderking as the U.S. special...
U.N. tribunal convicts main defendant in Hariri assassination case Lebanon

U.N. tribunal convicts main defendant in Hariri assassination case

August 18th, 20200 LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — On Tuesday, a U.N.-backed tribunal convicted Salim Jamil Ayyash, allegedly a member of the Hezbollah group, of conspiring to kill former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in a 2005 bombing that set the stage for years of confrontation between Lebanon’s political forces. Hariri, a Sunni Muslim...
Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen COMMUNITY

Saudi-led coalition no longer on U.N. blacklist for killing children in Yemen

June 15th, 20200 NEW YORK — On Monday U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres removed a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition from a U.N. blacklist. The coalition was condemned and was on the list for several years for killing and injuring children in Yemen. Reuters reports that Guterres wrote in his annual report to the U.N. Security Council on...
Violence in Baghdad as protests continue amid political uncertainty in Iraq COMMUNITY

Violence in Baghdad as protests continue amid political uncertainty in Iraq

December 8th, 20190 BAGHDAD —Fears of infiltration by unknown groups grew in Iraq on Thursday after 13 people were stabbed in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. The stabbings caused no fatalities in the area of Iraq’s capital that has been the home of recent protests against the country’s government.  Protesters gathered in Tahrir shouting slogans in...
The U.N. ‘sheriff’: Nikki Haley elevated Israel, damaged U.S. standing Opinions

The U.N. ‘sheriff’: Nikki Haley elevated Israel, damaged U.S. standing

October 22nd, 20180 The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, has made her post a “more glamorous” position than her predecessors — as President Trump described Haley’s 2-year term at the U.N., following her resignation announcement. We may never know the nature of Haley’s purported “glamour” at the U.N., but we certainly know that,...
Beating the U.S. ‘veto’: Palestinians need urgent protection from Israel Other Voices

Beating the U.S. ‘veto’: Palestinians need urgent protection from Israel

June 15th, 20181 What is taking place in Palestine is not a "conflict." We readily utilize the term but, in fact, the word "conflict" is misleading. It equates between oppressed Palestinians and Israel, a military power that stands in violation of numerous United Nations resolutions. It is these ambiguous terminologies that allow the likes of United...
U.N. refugee agency hopes Lebanon will reverse residency freeze World

U.N. refugee agency hopes Lebanon will reverse residency freeze

June 12th, 20180 GENEVA/BEIRUT ― The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR hopes the Lebanese foreign ministry will quickly reverse a decision to freeze residency applications the agency has submitted for its staff, its spokesman said on Tuesday.  Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil ordered the freeze last week after accusing UNHCR of hindering the return of...
U.S. urges post-election Lebanon to uphold regional policy U.S. Politics

U.S. urges post-election Lebanon to uphold regional policy

May 8th, 20180 BEIRUT ― The United States urged Lebanon to uphold a policy of staying out of regional wars and a U.N. Security Council resolution that sought Hezbollah’s disarmament, after the Iran-backed group and its allies won more than half the seats in Sunday’s election. The United States views Hezbollah as a terrorist group and is...
Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game World

Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game

April 26th, 20180 BRUSSELS ― International donors raised $4.4 billion in emergency aid for Syria and its neighbors this year on Wednesday, but the total fell well short of the U.N. target for 2018 after the United States failed to submit a pledge. Humanitarian agencies also pleaded for peace before the Syrian military and its Russian and Iranian...
France announces 50 million euro humanitarian aid for Syria World

France announces 50 million euro humanitarian aid for Syria

April 16th, 20180 PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France will contribute 50 million euros ($61.9 million) toward urgent humanitarian aid for Syria following a meeting with a group of non-governmental organizations (NGO) in Paris. “This evening I brought together NGOs working on the ground in Syria. Faced with the...
This International Women's Day, Palestinian women face more challenges than most World

This International Women’s Day, Palestinian women face more challenges than most

March 9th, 20180 March 8 is International Women's Day, a time to commemorate the movement for women's rights and raise awareness of some of the challenges confronted by women around the world. By Rebecca Stead Living under a 50-year-long Israeli military occupation, Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza face more challenges than most. Their...
U.N. urges Russia to expand eastern Ghouta aid plan World

U.N. urges Russia to expand eastern Ghouta aid plan

March 2nd, 20180 GENEVA — A Russian plan for a five-hour pause in fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta needs to be expanded to allow aid deliveries to enter and civilians and urgent medical cases to leave, United Nations officials said on Thursday. In one of the fiercest onslaughts of Syria's seven-year civil war, hundreds of people have died in 11...
U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge World

U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge

February 16th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is considering a British proposal to praise Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for pledging nearly $1 billion to ease Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, even as U.N. experts accuse a Saudi-led military coalition of using “the threat of starvation as an instrument of war” in...
Palestinian President Abbas to address U.N. Security Council amid U.S. tensions World

Palestinian President Abbas to address U.N. Security Council amid U.S. tensions

February 2nd, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 20 during the body's monthly meeting on the Middle East amid tensions over the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Since President Trump broke from decades of United States policy with his Dec....
Syrian opposition will work with Sochi proposal under U.N. guidance World

Syrian opposition will work with Sochi proposal under U.N. guidance

February 2nd, 20180 ISTANBUL — Syria's opposition will cooperate with proposals made at a Russia-hosted conference this week to rewrite the country's constitution as long as the process remains under U.N. auspices, the chief opposition negotiator said on Thursday. Participants at Tuesday's meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Russia - which is a...
Without UNRWA I wouldn't be alive today Opinions

Without UNRWA I wouldn’t be alive today

January 26th, 20180 By Mohamed Mohamed It is regrettable that the most basic human needs of millions of Palestinian refugees are now being used as a weapon in the Trump administration's political assault on Palestinians. On January 16, the administration decided to withhold $65 million of a planned $125 million in U.S. funding for the United Nations...
The trials of Africa and the real Dr. King they want us to forget Opinions

The trials of Africa and the real Dr. King they want us to forget

January 26th, 20180 By Ramzy Baroud On January 15, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luther Kings Day. Dr. King's famous speech, "I Have a Dream", was repeated numerous times in media outlets as a reminder of the evil of racism, which is being resurrected in a most pronounced way in American society. But that is only one version of Dr. King...
Qatar: UAE aircraft violated our airspace World

Qatar: UAE aircraft violated our airspace

January 12th, 20180 DOHA — Qatar has filed a complaint to the United Nations about an alleged violation of its airspace in December by an Emirati military aircraft, state news agency QNA reported on Friday. The United Arab Emirates is one of four Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, that have imposed travel, diplomatic and trade...
Trump threatens to withhold humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees World

Trump threatens to withhold humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees

January 5th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — President Trump said in tweets on Tuesday that the United States may withhold future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of being "no longer willing to talk peace" with Israel. Trump said that Washington gives Palestinians "HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and gets no appreciation or respect. They don't...
Trump deepens America's isolation Opinions

Trump deepens America’s isolation

December 22nd, 20170 By Rashid Khalidi The brilliant diplomacy over Jerusalem of the self-proclaimed master deal-maker has produced a situation where it is now D. Trump vs. almost the entire world. And in the face of what is likely to be a sweeping defeat for the U.S., Trump and his minions are not taking the reluctance of the world to go along with his...
Arab Americans rally in Dearborn for Jerusalem, against Trump COMMUNITY

Arab Americans rally in Dearborn for Jerusalem, against Trump

December 22nd, 20171 DEARBORN — This week, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council voted to condemn President Trump for his decision to designate Jerusalem as Israel's capital. On the grand stage, they reflected their respective countries' shared sentiments of solidarity with the Palestinian people and criticized Trump...
Defying Trump, over 120 countries at U.N. condemn Jerusalem decision World

Defying Trump, over 120 countries at U.N. condemn Jerusalem decision

December 21st, 20170 UNITED NATIONS — More than 120 countries defied President Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump had threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that voted in favor. A total of 128...
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