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Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri (AFP/ File Photo)

March 12th, 2019 - 09:10 GMT

Brussels Meet on Lebanon Starts Tuesday, Refugees on Top Agenda

Lebanon will attend a conference Tuesday in Brussels to call on the international community to push for refugee returns and support local host communities.

Tunisian parliament. (AFP/File)

September 29th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Tunisian government announces plan to expand legal protection for refugees

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks next to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. (AFP/File)

September 27th, 2016 - 08:50 GMT

Ban Ki-moon’s legacy to Palestine is one of failure

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi waits for a meeting with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the Palace Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

September 25th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

All eyes on Egypt’s human rights record during UN session

Costa Brava is one of two landfills of a government plan to end the country’s trash crisis, which began July of last year with the closure of the Naameh landfill after 17 years of operation. (The Daily Star/ Hasan Shaaban)

September 25th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Waste not, want not: Lebanon's trash problem back to the fore with landfill protesters

A general view shows rubbish bags piled up on the side of the road in the Jdeideh neighbourhood, north of Beirut, on September 20, 2016. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

September 22nd, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Activists in Lebanon file lawsuits against landfills

Palestinian farmer Abbas Yusef, 70, looks towards his olive trees. (AFP/File)

September 20th, 2016 - 11:45 GMT

Palestinian oral tradition as a defense against displacement

Palestinians hold posters against administrative detention and in support of Palestinian prisoners Bilal Kayed, Muhammad and Mahmud al-Balboul outside the United Nations building in the West Bank city of Ramallh, on August 22, 2016. (Twitter)

September 19th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Palestinian prisoner rights group demands solution for suffering hunger strikers

Journalist and rights activist Hossam Bahgat. (AFP/File)

September 18th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Egypt freezes assets of human rights workers and NGO’s

An Egyptian protester hold up his hand with a slogan reading in Arabic: “Egyptian girls are a red line” during a demonstration in Cairo against sexual harassment on 12 February 2013. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

September 15th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

Egypt: Anti-harassment groups prevented from campaigning during Eid

Syrian children play at a refugee camp on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on February 24, 2015. (AFP/File)

September 12th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Crime rampant at Lebanon’s Baalbek refugee camp

Yemeni workers unload Emirati medical aid boxes in Aden in May 2015. (AFP/File)

September 8th, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Egypt to host aid conference for Yemen

Protesters hold placards in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. (Wikimedia)

August 8th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Israel launches campaign to identify, deport BDS activists