Frontex to expand cooperation with Operation IRINI
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI have agreed last Friday to expand their cooperation to address challenges and threats to EU security in the Central...
View ArticleRELEASE: CAP Report Outlines Possible Flashpoints in US-Turkey Relations as...
Washington, D.C. — A new report from the Center for American Progress discusses the issues that could shape U.S.-Turkey relations under the Biden administration and outlines possible flashpoints that...
View ArticleKieran Ramsey Named Special Agent in Charge of the Portland Field Office
Director Christopher Wray has named Kieran Ramsey as the special agent in charge of the Portland Field Office. Most recently, Mr. Ramsey served as the director of the FBI Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell...
View ArticleIOM, UNHCR: Shipwreck off Libya Claims over 40 Lives
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency are deeply saddened by a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast yesterday (19/01), the first of 2021 in the Central...
View ArticleAs Lebanon locks down once more in the face of soaring coronavirus cases, new...
As Lebanon approaches its first week in new total lockdown, and the health system teeters on the brink of collapse, CARE is particularly worried about the impact on people’s economic situation and...
View ArticleTreaties and International Agreements
Treaties and other international agreements are written agreements between sovereign states (or between states and international organizations) governed by international law.read more
View ArticleCAIR Community Advisory: What You Need to Know About the Muslim Ban Repeal
It repeals Executive Order 13780 and Proclamations 9645, 9723, and 9983, which were rooted in Islamophobia and anti-Blackness, and restricted entry into the United States for people from primarily...
View ArticleCAIR Community/Media Advisory: Join D.C. Rally (1/27) in Support of Immigrant...
Four years after the Muslim Ban, immigrant communities say to President Biden: ‘Take action, for #AllofUs!’ read more
View ArticleItaly failed to rescue more than 200 migrants, UN Committee finds
GENEVA (27 January 2021) –Italy failed to protect the right to life of more than 200 migrants who were on board a vessel that sank in the Mediterranean Sea in 2013, the UN Human Rights Committee has...
View ArticlePaul M. Abbate Named FBI Deputy Director
Director Christopher Wray has named Paul M. Abbate as the deputy director of the FBI. As deputy, he oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities. Mr. Abbate...
View ArticleEuroMed Justice Programme launched with opening conference
The EuroMed Justice (EMJ) Programme, hosted at Eurojust, has officially been launched with an opening conference in The Hague on 2 and 3 February. Participants from all eight involved South Partner...
View ArticleIOM, UNHCR: Latest Mediterranean tragedy underscores need for search and rescue
The Mediterranean Sea, where scores of people drowned after two vessels capsized off the coast of Tunisia. © UNHCR/Markel Redondo.read more
View ArticleJapan provides US$110 million for food assistance to the most vulnerable...
YOKOHAMA – The United Nations World Food Programme has welcomed a total contribution of US$110 million from the Government of Japan towards its food assistance and livelihood support to vulnerable...
View ArticleEighty-three Percent of Syrias Lights Extinguished After Four Years of Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC—Eighty-three percent of all the lights in Syria have gone out since the start of the conflict there, a global coalition of humanitarian and human rights organisations has revealed ahead...
View ArticleRwanda vaccinates refugees and asylum-seekers against COVID-19
A refugee at the Gashora transit centre in Rwanda receives his COVID-19 vaccine. © Plaisir Muzogeye.read more
View ArticleEnergy Diplomacy Opens New Chapter Of Independence For Greece
Modern Greece is marking its bicentennial, celebrating the nation’s emergence from 400 years of rule under the Ottoman Empire. While ancient Greek culture pioneered democracy, philosophy, geometry and...
View ArticleThreats to the Nonreligious in Libya: CFI at the U.N. Human Rights Council
On March 17, CFI’s United Nations Advocate, Andreas Kyriacou, delivered a statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Libya’s failure to protect religious minorities, particularly atheists who are...
View ArticleHigh-level experts join EuroMed CrimEx group
High-level academic experts and criminal justice professionals from EU Member States and South Partner Countries (SPCs) are joining the CrimEx group of the EuroMed Justice (EMJ) Programme to update and...
View ArticleLebanon: MSF begins vaccinating vulnerable communities against COVID-19
NEW YORK/BEIRUT, MARCH 26, 2021— The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has begun vaccinating elderly people and medical personnel...
View ArticleApples Independent Repair Provider program expands globally
Program offers repair providers access to genuine parts, tools, repair manuals, and diagnostics for out-of-warranty repairs.read more
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